Undergraduate Course: Design Studio 4 (DESI10001)
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 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) | 
Credits | 40 | 
 
| Home subject area | Design | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
| Course website | 
None | 
Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | 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 | 
 
 
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements |  Pre-requisites  
Appropriate SCQF Level 9 Qualification or equivalent. 
 
Co-requisites  
DESI10002, DESI10003, DESI10006 | 
 
| Additional Costs |  course materials and study trips | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13  Full Year, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 
  
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WebCT enabled:  No | 
Quota:  180 | 
 
	
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| No Classes have been defined for this Course |  
| First Class | 
First class information not currently available |  
| 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  | 
 
 
Assessment Information 
Assessment plan 
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Special Arrangements 
| This course is only available to students in the School of Design. |   
 
Additional Information 
| Academic description | 
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| Syllabus | 
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| Transferable skills | 
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| Reading list | 
Indicative Bibliography  
Personal Bibliography to be determined in discussion with Studio Tutors | 
 
| Study Abroad | 
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| Study Pattern | 
Contact hours 30 hours 
Directed study 130 hours 
Self-directed study 240 hours 
Total 400 hours | 
 
| Keywords | Not entered | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Mr Stewart Cordiner 
Tel: 0131 221 6119 
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Course secretary | Ms Jane Thomson 
Tel:  
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