Undergraduate Course: Design Studio 4 (Illustration) (DESI10047)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This course is only available to students in the School of Design.
Indicative course content
This course enables students to develop a personal, integrated, critical and reflective design approach appropriate to their chosen discipline. Students work on self-selected and generated projects within a studio environment.
Aims of course
1 develop and consolidate personal creative methods, techniques and approaches
2 explore how practitioners generate and justify personal project briefs
3 develop and consolidate personal approaches to materials and processes
Mode of delivery
Studio-Based Project Work, Group Crits, Individual and Group Mentoring, Project Review |
| Course description |
As Summary
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 24 |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
| Course Start Date |
18/09/2017 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 50,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
320 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Formative: completed project illustrations for major project or projects.
Summative: Completed illustration projects. |
| Feedback |
Formative feedback/feedforward is provided at designated points during the course, and may take a variety of forms (e.g., written verbal) and be delivered through a variety of contexts (e.g., one-to-one meeting, small group crit, VLE posting). |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- 1.INITIATE: demonstrate the initiation and evaluation of original creative concepts in response to research findings through critical assessment
- 2.EVALUATE: demonstrate the evaluation of the development of projects through a structured, transparent and personal methodology and considered judgment
- 3.RESOLVE: demonstrate appropriate material development through a transparent iterative process, leading to resolved outcomes at an appropriate professional standard, demonstrating an integrated relationship between practice, theory and industry
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Reading List
DESI10047 Design Studio 4- Illustration
- McCloud, S. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art.
William Morrow (2001)
- Reynolds, K. Children's Literature: A Very Short Introduction.
Oxford University Press (2011)
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Jonathan Gibbs
Tel:
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Course secretary | Ms Jane Thomson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5713
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