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 Undergraduate Course: Design Research 4 (Jewellery & Silversmithing) (DESI10031)
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 description | As Summary |  
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1) | Quota:  0 |  | Course Start | Full Year |  | Course Start Date | 15/09/2025 |  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 ) |  
| Assessment (Further Info) | Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 % |  
 
| Additional Information (Assessment) | Assessment is by submission of portfolio of project work at the end of the course. |  
| 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: 
        INVESTIGATE: use a variety of practical and theoretical methods to demonstrate a sustained and rigorous investigation of personal research themesCHALLENGE: analyse issues arising from the research and challenge established precepts and assumptionsPLAN: demonstrate a sense of purpose in the development of lines of research inquiry |  
Reading List 
| DESI10031 Design Research 4- Jewellery & Silversmithing -	Skinner, D. Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective. Lark (2013)
 -	den Besten, L. On Jewellery: A Compendium of International
 Art Jewellery. Arnoldshe (2011)
 
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills | Not entered |  
| Keywords | Not entered |  
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Ms Heather Woof Tel: (0131 6)51 5807
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 | Course secretary | Mrs Abbie Humphreys Tel: (01316) 502306
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