Undergraduate Course: Professional Design Practice 4 (DESI10003)
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 | 20 | 
 
| Home subject area | Design | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
| Course website | 
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Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | This course is only available to students in the School of Design. 
 
Indicative course content 
This course consolidates students professional awareness of working methods and practices within their disciplines current practice in order to underpin their studio work and plan their professional career 
 
Aims of course 
1 Enable students to develop personal professional practices and methods 
2 Enable students to confidently position their personal practice within the discipline and a broader professional context 
3 Enable students to determine the appropriate personal creative methodologies and strategies for the professional presentation, exhibition and documentation of work to clearly identified audiences/clients/users/stakeholders 
 
Mode of delivery 
Self-Generated Projects, Mentoring, Tutorials | 
 
 
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements |  Pre-requisites  
The appropriate SCQF Level 9 Qualification or equivalent.  
 
Co-requisites  
DESI10001, DESI10002, DESI1006 
 
This course is only available to ECA students on degree programmes belonging to Design. | 
 
| Additional Costs |  course materials and study trips | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |   
Learning Outcomes 
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:  
1. EVALUATE: critically evaluate the discipline, and identify where they wish to position themselves within it  
2. REFLECT: reflect upon their work and evaluate it within and beyond the context of their discipline 
3. COMMUNICATE: communicate their work persuasively within an appropriate professional context  | 
 
 
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 and discussed with Studio Tutors | 
 
| Study Abroad | 
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| Study Pattern | 
Contact hours 15 hours 
Directed study 65 hours 
Self-directed study 120 hours 
Total 200 hours | 
 
| Keywords | Not entered | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Ms Zoe Patterson 
Tel: (0131 6)51 5720 
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Course secretary | Ms Jane Thomson 
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