100% 3000 word Reflective Learning Diary, which includes a copy of your completed Learning Contract. (Learning Outcomes 1,2,3)

The module will introduce you to a variety of approaches that are implicit to negotiated study. This will provide you with the key knowledge and skills required to successfully manage your Masters programme. The module will combine one-to-one tutorials with work-shops in order to provide you with both the opportunity to develop your own research programme and meet with fellow learners to share experiences of self-managed study. The module will also prove pivotal to the development of your learning contract and will require you to reflect critically upon the process of developing ideas for negotiated study.

BIAD 1996 Designing and managing a research project: a research guide (Birmingham: UCE)

Race Phil 1998 500 tips for open and flexible learning (London: Kogan Page)

Library and Information Services resources

This module is intended to support you in the initial stages of your MA Negotiated Study in Arts, Media and Design. At the beginning of the module you will be introduced to the concept of `flexible learning' and the demands of undertaking research by negotiated study. You will attend a short series of work-shops where you will be expected to present your research ideas to the rest of the group, in order to be provide you with formative feedback and assist you in the development of your project. To support your individual progress you will also be provided with a one-to-one tutorial, where the details of your learning contract and negotiated project 1 agreement will be finalised. Throughout the module you will be expected to keep a reflective diary that will demonstrate your learning throughout the initial period of your study and this must be submitted as the assessment of the module.