1. Demonstrate the ability to work with other people, accepting responsibility and recognising individual strengths and weaknesses.

2. Demonstrate an understanding of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge.

3. Demonstrate a systematic understanding of key aspects, including acquisition of coherent and detailed knowledge, at least some of which is at or informed by, the forefront of defined aspects of a discipline.

4. Communicate and analyse information, ideas, problems, and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

5. Manage their own learning, exercise initiative, personal responsibility and demonstrate the learning ability, qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment or further training of a professional or equivalent nature.

Summative assessment takes place throughout the module via presentations and progress checks.

Learner will record their career research and progression via digital means to allow for regular progress tutorials.
Designated tutorials will be set up to enable students to discuss their work individually with key members of delivery staff.

Portfolio of work - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

This module seeks to prepare students for employment and life after university.

An exploratory stage allows the student to develop an awareness of the range of careers and opportunities available to them, while a confirmatory stage requires the learner to undertake meaningful connections within their chosen field of work.

Taught topics will include the contemporary jobs market, employment opportunities, interview techniques, responding to job advertisements, CV preparation, personal promotion, development of contacts etc.

The module initially considers their own understanding of the uncertainty, ambiguity, and limits of their current personal knowledge. Through research, this knowledge will evolve into a more nuanced awareness of their career intentions, allowing them to then seek out work experience to confirm their initial research. Emphasis is placed on experimentation, where several external work experiences may be needed to confirm a particular career route.

Their record of the module should also include evidence of the learner demonstrating initiative, undertaking personal responsibility and exhibiting their awareness of the transferable skills necessary for employment or further training of a professional or equivalent nature.

Throughout the module, they will provide evidence of their understanding of the key aspects of a discipline. They will utilize that awareness to form the basis of working with other people, where they can accept responsibility, and recognise individual strengths and weaknesses.

The module requires the student to demonstrate significant responsibility for identifying and developing individual professional goals. Throughout the module, they will need to make realistic, well-informed decisions in relation to their future career intentions.

To achieve a pass (40% or above) in this module you must complete all the assessment tasks, having responded appropriately to the brief. The production of the identified design solution having addressed the requirements and demands of external specifications, e.g deadlines supporting this with some awareness of the market and/or users.

The aim of this module is to give you the opportunity to plan for life after university. This will involve researching the various routes to their chosen industry, focusing on developing the transferable skills needed to attain a goal.

Lectures
Observational study and experimentation
Research
Analysis of images and objects
Group critiques
Communicating and presenting ideas.
Site visits to local landmarks and institutions
Specialist Guest (storyboard artists etc)
Studio learning takes place in timetabled sessions with academic staff who introduce key elements.
The module also requires the learner to accept significant responsibility for identifying, researching and developing individual professional goals.

Students will determine, with tutor guidance, their own reading list appropriate to their personal proposal of work. Students are expected to take advantage of the library facilities, including appropriate journals, and be aware of the work of practitioners in their subject.

Bloomsbury Publishing, B.P. Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook: The Essential Guide to the Media and Publishing Industrie¿: The Perfect Companion for Writers of Fiction and Non-Fiction, Poets, Playwrights, Journalists and Commercial Artists. Bloomsbury.
Association of Illustrators (2008) The Illustrators Guide to Law and Business Practice. London: Association of Illustrators
Davies, J and Brazell, D (2013) Becoming a Successful Illustrator. Worthing: Fairchild Books
Fishel C. (2009): The Freelance Design Handbook: Don't Start Work Without It. Rotovision
Zeegen, L and Fenton, L (2012) The Fundamentals of Illustration. London: AVA Publishing
Taylor, F. (2013)¿How to Create a Portfolio and Get Hired, 2nd Edition. 2nd edition. Laurence King.

Arts Council http://www.artscouncil.org.uk
Prince’s Trust http://www.princes-trust.org.uk

Studio
Drawing Tablets
Presentation screens
Lecture rooms

The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.