Advanced professional planning and engagement

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Test and evaluate conceptual and technical resources and skills in the development of your independent work

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The application of current issues, debates and values in your discipline to practice-led research

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Produce professionally relevant outcomes, encompassing relevant industry standards.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Communicate conceptual, technical and creative ideas and research to a professional standard

This module enables you to build on the knowledge and skills previously acquired in a manner directly related to your own professional and personal development. Through a series of presentations, tutorials, interviews and workshop activities, you will develop confidence and experience in areas that support progression into professional practice or further study. Through reflective practice, you will gather and evaluate evidence of self-analysis, strengthening your specialist knowledge and informing potential directions for your work. The module introduces a range of approaches to professional practice within illustration, including how work is positioned in relation to audiences, contexts and industry expectations. You will receive guidance on presenting and communicating work to professional standards and on producing appropriate self-promotion materials. You will also be introduced to different models of sustaining and developing practice, including funding, commissioning and other professional opportunities. This will involve considering how projects are proposed, structured and communicated, and how illustrators articulate the value and purpose of their work. Opportunities within the module support reflection on your developing professional identity and consideration of possible future pathways, including approaches to career planning. The indicative content of the module normally includes: - lectures on employability skills including presentation, interview skills, and understanding roles within the creative industries - Masters degrees and other educational opportunities - group tutorials on careers mapping, roles, skills and self-reflective practice to determine strengths and weaknesses, and CV workshops - technical workshops to support the production of self-promotion materials - introduction to funding, commissioning and project development frameworks relevant to illustration practice

Teaching methods include: - lectures - workshops - group tutorials Learning activities include: - lectures - workshops - group discussion - peer group learning - Study Skills Hub

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Portfolio

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Feedback on project brief. You will experience formative feedback during the module in different learning situations, for example: tutorials, presentations, crits and written feedback, contributing to the written summative feedback given at the end of the module.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.