Undergraduate Course: Design Studio 4 (Illustration) (DESI10047)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art | 
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 
 
| 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 | 
 
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Course Delivery Information
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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
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Contacts 
| Course organiser | Mr Jonathan Gibbs 
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Course secretary | Ms Jane Thomson 
Tel: (0131 6)51 5713 
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