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Undergraduate Course: Design Collaboration 2 - Product Design (DESI08022)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course encourages students to engage with different approaches to knowledge and enquiry as they look at issues affecting the world in which we live. It is designed to help students further a deeper critical understanding of their chosen area of study by setting the subject in a wider context. The aims of the course are:
1. Consolidate an issue-based approach to creative and intellectual endeavour.
2. To provide the students with the opportunity for rigorous reflection on their discipline within a wider context.
3. To refine interdisciplinary collaborative activity and debate.
Course description As Summary
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements This course is only available to ECA students on degree programmes belonging to Design.
Additional Costs Class materials
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Full Year
Course Start Date 18/09/2017
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 2, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 5, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 30, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 15, Formative Assessment Hours 2, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 140 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)
Feedback Feedback will be given within 15 working days from the hand-in date via Learn.
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. ANALYSE: Demonstrate the ability to examine increasingly complex issues from a number of view points in a collaborative context
  2. REFLECT: Demonstrate ability to reflect on their discipline with a complex wider context
  3. COMMUNICATE: Refine communication of proposals, concepts and responses orally, visually and in writing, using a variety of appropriate methods and forums
Reading List
Product Design - Design Collaboration 2
- Hudson, J. Process: 50 Product Designs from Concept to Manufacture, 2nd edition , Laurence King (2011)
- Bramston, D. Basics Product Design: Material Thoughts, 3rd edition , AVA Publishing (2009)
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMiss Isla Munro
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Course secretaryMiss Karolina Mazur
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