Undergraduate Course: Applied Design 3 (ARTX09053)
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 | 10 | 
 
| Home subject area | Art | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
| Course website | 
None | 
Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | Indicative course content 
Using drawing and other appropriate research materials, students will initiate projects and develop ideas for designing a body of work. The resolved body of work should be made using glass, textiles or jewellery or other appropriate design techniques. 
 
Aims of course 
1 To foster a fully developed understanding of the interrelationship between the finished work and the critical thinking and research undertaken as part of its development.  
2 To further develop, to a high level, skills in glass, textiles, jewellery or other appropriate means. 
3 To foster professional and well considered approaches in the presentation of work created in this module. 
 
Mode of delivery 
Studio-Based, Demonstration, Email Assistance, Group Crit, Individual Mentoring, Review, Tutorial 
 
This course is only available to students on BA Combined Studies (School of Art). | 
 
 
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 the School of Art. | 
 
| Additional Costs |  None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |   
Learning Outcomes 
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:  
1. Show evidence of a high level of originality and a distinct personal language in finished work and the research which supports it.  
2. Demonstrate a strong command of skills in drawing and in the handling of a range of appropriate applied design processes. 
3. Show professionalism, good judgement and a highly considered approach to the selection and presentation of a resolved body of work for assessment.  | 
 
 
Assessment Information 
Assessment plan 
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Special Arrangements 
| This course is only available to students on BA Combined Studies (School of Art). |   
 
Additional Information 
| Academic description | 
Not entered | 
 
| Syllabus | 
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| Transferable skills | 
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| Reading list | 
Indicative Bibliography  
Crafts Magazine UK; Neues Glass Germany;  Andrew Moor, Architectural Glass Art & Technique in Contemporary Glass Rizzoli International, NY/USA;Second Steps a guide to setting up a business in the Craft World  Publisher BCF Books; Tim McCreight .The Complete Metalsmith, Davis Publications;   Inspired to stitch-21 textile Artists by Diana Springall; Mellor, Susan, and Elffers, Joost, Textile Designs, Thames and Hudson, London, 1998 | 
 
| Study Abroad | 
Not entered | 
 
| Study Pattern | 
Contact hours 40 hours 
Directed study 20 hours 
Self-directed study 40 hours 
Total 100 hours | 
 
| Keywords | GLASS, TEXTILES, GLASS, JEWELLERY | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Ms Joan Smith 
Tel: 0131 221 6031 
Email: joan.smith@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Ms Claire Davies 
Tel:  
Email: claire.davies@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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