DG4S35 - Creative and Collaborative Professionalism 01 Dec 2019 - 31 Aug 2026 | Version 1
Associated Module Information
| Module Code: | DG4S35 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Module Title: | Creative and Collaborative Professionalism | ||
| Faculty: | Faculty of Business and Creative Industries | ||
| Faculty Group: | Games and Design | ||
| Faculty Sub Group: | Design | ||
| Module Leader: | |||
| Module Team: | Philip Harfield | ||
| First Intended Intake: | SEP 2020 | Final Year of Intake: | 2025 |
| Date Closed: | |||
| Credit Value: | 20 | Credit Level: | 7 |
| Language: | English | ||
| Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: | 0 | ||
| Equivalent Module: | |||
| HECOS codes: | 100811 - creative management | ||
| HECOS Code Weighting: | 100 | ||
Document Version Information
| Version | 1 |
|---|---|
| Valid From | 01 Dec 2019 |
| Valid To | 31 Aug 2026 |
Module Aims
To develop student’s personal capital (creative autonomy) and interpersonal capital (directorial/leadership), through co-operative working and collaborative thinking with diverse partners. Students will explore their role as an advocate and innovation leader capable of catalysing thinking and transforming organisations.
Specific aims are:
- To engage professional intrapreneurial attributes through the communication of high-level innovation proposals and concepts to partners and clients in an authentic, engaging and creative way
- To apply creative approaches to reaching-out and pitching innovation projects to secure buy-in from diverse stakeholders such as community groups and investors
- To enable the development of a personalised rhetoric and voice as significant intrapreneurial character attributes. The realisation of associated critical influence through the communication of professional presence in contribution to the debate on regional/global/cultural perspectives influencing design and innovation
- To develop valued relationships with other professionals and their networks
Content Summary
Positioning of the module prior to the final ‘Innovation Lead Project’ allows students to impart a maturing of their thinking to the module. Also, to apply prior learning such as contextual knowledge, research insight and design thinking.
Content within the module provides two career focussed outcomes, to develop personal and interpersonal capital. Outward facing activities to support this include:
- Students develop their voice through the use of digital and social media to share ideas, build virtual networks and collaborative communities
- Develop critical advocacy in brokering change through active and scholarly participation in regional/national/international forums and research networks.
- The notion of ‘ideas worth spreading’ and there presentation to peers and external professionals in an engaging and authentic way runs through this module. Opportunities are provided for students to present to regional national and international audiences.
- Dissemination of student voices and insight will be enabled through outward facing media capturing the intrapreneurial ethos of the course.
The module provides clarification on what it means to be an unreasonable entrepreneur/intrapreneur, standing out from the crowd, critical in thinking, disruptive and innovative in business model? Driving change through authentic engagement of citizens, customers competitors and business stakeholders.
Learning and Teaching Methods
| Activity Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Lecture | 6 |
| Seminar | 14 |
| Tutorial | 4 |
| Independent Study | 104 |
| Directed Study | 60 |
| Groupwork | 12 |
| Total Hours Selected | 200 |
Learning Outcomes
| # | Learning Outcome |
|---|---|
| LO1 | Apply effective visual, oral and presentational techniques to successfully communicate thinking and professional perspectives |
| LO2 | Actively engage in critical debate across professional networks demonstrating an advanced appreciation of, and sensitivity to socio-cultural, socio-economic contexts |
Module Requisites
N/A
Assessment Criteria
| Assessment Category | Assessment Type | Description | Duration | Word Count | Weight (%) | Best of? | Pass Mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asynchronous Assessment | Report 1 | Intrapreneur publication: Contribute to a group innovation publication where authentic voices resonate | 0 | 3000 | 50 | No | 40 |
| Asynchronous Assessment | Presentation (Asynchronous) 1 | Professional engagement platform: In developing a TED style talk reflecting personal and professional narrative | 20 | N/A | 50 | No | 40 |
Assessment Matrix
| Assessment Type | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| LO1 | LO2 | ||
| Report 1 | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Presentation (Asynchronous) 1 | ✔ | ✔ | |