Undergraduate Course: Design Studio Practice (Outgoing Exchange) (DESI09011)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 50 |
| Home subject area | Design |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Indicative course content
This course is designed to encompass studies undertaken either before or after eca students participate in an exchange. Students work on a series of projects and are encouraged to: collect and analyse research that is creatively informed and critically aware; develop creative concepts through integrated iterative processes incorporating making, evaluating, presenting and reflection; demonstrate an awareness of the professional context for their discipline, and their personal direction within it.
Aims of course
1 to enable students to develop, and critically appraise, a body of clearly defined research material that communicates a progression of ideas and an awareness of contemporary creative practice and user/audience needs
2 to develop advanced creative methods, techniques, approaches, materials and processes, exploring how practitioners personally conceptualise briefs
3 to enable students to begin to position their personal practice within the discipline, exploring a range of appropriate design methodologies and strategies for the professional presentation, exhibition and documentation of work
Mode of delivery
Projects, Lectures, Seminars, Tutorials, Visits, Field Work, Group Crits, Project Review |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This course is only available to ECA students on degree programmes belonging to Design. |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Full Year, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. demonstrate analysis, questioning and selection skills in the formulation and exploration of personal research themes
2. demonstrate the ability to explore, develop and resolve creative concepts in response to briefs, through structured and iterative methodologies and evaluations, using appropriate materials and processes.
3. demonstrate the ability to evaluate the professional context for the discipline, reflect on their position within it and communicate proposals, concepts and responses using a variety of appropriate methods |
Assessment Information
Assessment plan
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Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
Indicative Bibliography
Discipline Specific and Personal Bibliographies to be determined by discussion with Studio Tutors |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 65 hours
Directed study 185 hours
Self-directed study 250 hours
Total 500 hours |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Harvey Dingwall
Tel:
Email: h.dingwall@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Jane Thomson
Tel:
Email: jane.thomson@ed.ac.uk |
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