NOTES:
23.09.20
Key Dates:
30th September --- Degree Show (Marketing Briefing)
29th October --- Symposium (optional)
5th November --- Pecha Kucha presentations
10th December --- HAND IN + images and personal statement deadline for degree show. Degree show stuff doesn't have to be this unit, can just be your own work
Covid Campus Rules:
Mind distances
Always wear masks unless exempt
Always hand-sanitise
Unit Info:
60 Credits
600 hours of study time
Plan your time carefully (Gantt Chart which can be added to the proposal template on the VLE)
Proposal Deadlines: 5th October
10th December - HAND IN
General Advice:
Use the VLE more than you used to! Replaces casual corridor talk
Attend tutorials and any group work as much as possible
Research industry and dedicate some time to networking! The pandemic affects everybody, meaning that everyone will be more interested in talking and throwing their attention about
#ISRU - astronauts are in a pseudo-quarantine so this guy did the IRSU to talk about using things in your space ?? not sure
Library to be open 9-9
Degree Show Advice:
Get ahead of it early
Start gathering information that you want to exhibit as you go
Consider style and content - make sure that it looks like its for an external viewership as it still may factor into your portfolio
Outline Syllabus:
There are two handbooks! Ours is still the 2019-20 one but there is a 2020-21 for the new students floating about
Contemporary practice - bring something new to the discipline you're studying
Presentation of work will be assessed for this unit more so than before
Unit Aims:
Critical engagement with current issues is important
Creating work that is at the forefront of your area of interest/critical discourse
There's a Unit Aim relating to build confidence in my career path and showing that you can project manage and create informed judgements in relation to communicating with specialist and non-specialist audiences
Ensure that proposal is something that can be explored
Submissions:
Masters project proposal form
Body of creative work appropriate to your discipline
Research files (notebooks, worksheets, sketchbooks, reflective journal, etc.)
Critical AND reflective evaluation of the work 2,500 words with bibliography - less like a diary but more of a short description of the process
Presentation:
Report = pdf or publication
Only present work from this unit
Degree show is not assessed
May be able to show previous work
May be looking for some articles/features - can volunteer to write some stuff for the uni article ****
May be a physical degree show in the spring
Learning Outcomes:
No percentages - holistic marking (they look across the work to find the evidence)
LO17: Context! Where does your work fit in the world
LO18: Tools! How are you doing your work? Are the materials appropriate for the field? - *Types of game - what normally happens (OBSEVE)
LO19: Innovation! Does your work challenge existing perspectives?
LO20: Critically evaluate and apply appropriate methodologies and research findings to your project >> what's the difference between this and LO18??** Marie recommends asking tutor what they think your methodology is to help this - *my input to LO18 (ACT)
LO21: Bring it to the public! Show that your work is being presented to specialist and non-specialist publics in an appropriate way
LO22: Professional standard! Show your work is living up to industry standards
- R Cipolletta