FH3S31 - Critical Catalogue 01 Sep 2022 - 31 Aug 2028 | Version 1

Associated Module Information

Module Code: FH3S31
Module Title: Critical Catalogue
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Creative Industries
Faculty Group: Fashion, Marketing and Photography
Faculty Sub Group: Photography
Module Leader: Eileen Little
Module Team: Ian Wiblin, Peter Bobby, Matt White, Magali Nougarede, Steven Wright
First Intended Intake: SEP 2022 Final Year of Intake:
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 20 Credit Level: 6
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes:
HECOS Code Weighting:

Document Version Information

Version 1
Valid From 01 Sep 2022
Valid To 31 Aug 2028

Module Aims

Facilitate the creation of an extended text & image piece exploring a range of academic and critical debates on themes key to the student’s subject area.

Support the development of students’ independent critical judgment, visual literacy, research activities and design skills, brought together in the context of a literate and visually compelling artefact.

Enhance students’ written and visual communication skills, to further enhance employability within the broad creative industries.

Content Summary

This module is designed to enable students to be both academically ambitious and visually creative in the defining and development of a critically engaged image-text artefact that underpins their practice and faces an appropriate audience.

Module content will further nurture research, writing, design and visual language skills explored and developed within assignments at Levels 4 and 5, and will encourage the application of practiced self-reflection.

Key skills such as communication, contextualization, organisation and presentation are also demonstrated in this submission.

Students will be allocated a supervisor to offer academic support to help them to stay on track. Targets for scheduled sessions will be published in the handbook.

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 8
Seminar 2
Project supervision 2
Demonstration 6
Independent Study 166
Directed Study 16
Total Hours Selected 200

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Construct and sustain a coherent and literate critique utilising written and visual means according to recognised industry standards.
LO2 Engage critically with major thinkers, debates and intellectual paradigms within the field of photography and other apposite creative subjects.

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Asynchronous Assessment Case study 1 Submission of a designed catalogue evidencing research, critical thinking, visual and written communication. 0 4000 100 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2
Case study 1

Reading List

Each student will research and develop their own reading list for this module, based on the ideas and concepts they set out to explore and develop throughout the module. This will be different for each individual and will cross-over with resources sited for the module, Independent Vision.

Books:

Adams, A., Dawson, P. and Foster, J. (2020) Graphic Design Rules: 365 Essential Design Dos and Don’t’s. Princeton Architectural Press: New York, NY

Bodman, S., Wilkie, T., Carson, J. and Miller, R. (2012). Photography and the Artist’s Book. Museums Etc: Edinburgh and Boston

Blaxter, L., Hughes, C. and Tight, M.?(2010) How to Research. 4th edn. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill/ Open University Press

De Soto, D. (2011) Know Your Onions: Graphic Design. BIS Publishers: Amsterdam

Fox, A. and Caruana, N. (2012) Behind the Image: Research in Photography. Bloomsbury: London and New York

Rose, G. (2021) Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials. 3rd edn. London: Thousand Oaks; Calif: SAGE Publishing

Smith, K. (2003) Structure of the Artist’s Book. expanded 4th edn. K Smith Books: Rochester, NY

Wells, L. (ed.) (2019) The Photography Cultures Reader: Representation, Agency and Identity. Routledge: Abingdon and New York

Wells, L. (ed.) (2003) The Photography Reader. Routledge: London and New York.

Wisker, G. (2009) The Undergraduate Research Handbook. London: Palgrave McMillan

Magazines/Journals:

Another Magazine

Aperture

British Journal of Photography

Camera Austria International

Exit - Imagen Y Cultura

Fantastic Man

Foam

The Gentlewoman

Photoworks

Source

Tank

Campaign

Dazed

i-D Magazine

Vogue (UK)

Vogue (Italia)

History of Photography (online only from 2019)

Photography & Culture (online only from 2019)