Curriculum Information

The students are required to undertake the research, planning, production and presentation of a fully resolved body of work, produced to a high technical and creative standard. The production and presentation of their projects should aspire to being innovative and represent the students interests as well as appropriate for the intended audience and context of the work. Any format, technique or convention may be applied, but its application must be justified. We expect to see high quality portfolios as the main outcome of this work, with prints and publications but other forms of presentation may be negotiated with tutors. The students will be working at a level where their work will meet public and perhaps commercial domains, and as a result the students will be expected to work with endeavour, humility and maturity. Whilst we hope that they push ideas towards new territories and new and dynamic solutions, we also expect them to evidence how they might usefully articulate the work when preparing for competitions, bids for commissions and exhibitions.

The students will have regular tutorials and one to ones with tutors, external professionals and research fellows. The work can be either a project that has begun in Semester 1 (if they chose this option the images in the portfolio must be different from that in Semester 2) or a stand-alone project finished by the hand in date at the end of Semester 2. It should be complete and fully resolved and have a clearly identifiable context for its dissemination and distribution. It should be of a very high standard as appropriate for its professional context, and presented in an appropriate and fully professional manner. A word-processed document (Development folder) evidencing their ideas and research, should accompany the work.

Dependent on the response of students to the module brief, this module could require adherence to USW ethical guidelines.