DA2T02 - Self-Directed Study 2: Art is Life 01 Sep 2024 - 31 Aug 2030 | Version 0

Associated Module Information

Module Code: DA2T02
Module Title: Self-Directed Study 2: Art is Life
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Creative Industries
Faculty Group: Games and Design
Faculty Sub Group: Design
Module Leader:
Module Team: Deb Jones, Emma Marshman
First Intended Intake: SEP 2024 Final Year of Intake: 2029
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 60 Credit Level: 5
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 100059 - fine art
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 0
Valid From 01 Sep 2024
Valid To 31 Aug 2030

Module Aims

Develop practical skills in the preparation, organizing, administration, marketing, installation, networking, and other essential vocational practices necessary when operating as a professional artist.

Develop initiative, through self-directed, individual, imaginative approaches to media, materials, processes, and ideas employed in the scope of a vocational project.

Professionally exhibit and market work in a commercial gallery in the Welsh arts community.

Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between personal practice and specialism within a wider professional, historical and contemporary context. 

Content Summary

This module requires the students to develop their final project and a resolved body of work, in agreement with tutors. Requiring students to work independently to structure, organise and manage a personal line of enquiry in their choice of disciplines in response to research conducted in Contextual Studies 1 and Research & Development.
Students will produce a fully resolved body of artwork through self-directed study which will be professionally exhibited in a public or commercial gallery.

The project requires students to write a proposal (Statement of Intent), describing aims, objectives, primary and secondary sources, relevant context, research methods and technical programme.

Students will be required to develop an innovative and experimental line of investigation that utilises and explores numerous construction and application techniques within the creative discipline.

Development will be thoroughly evidenced through visual journal and blog, with evidence of investigations and interrogation of both historical and contemporary sources relevant to the chosen themes and curation. The blog will thoroughly and professionally record, illustrate, and reflect on the creative process, secondary research and on the outcomes from the projects.

The final resolved work will be professionally exhibited.

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 12
Tutorials 8
Project Supervision 40
Supervised time in studio/workshop 54
External Visits (Including Fieldtrips) 18
Independent Study 260
Directed Study (including online independent learning) 200
Problem/Challenge based learning?? 8
Total Hours Selected 600

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Evaluate knowledge in response to learning, making use of subject-specific, and generic, knowledge, skills and understanding, to critically approach to problem-solving.
LO2 Evaluate research and outcomes, and identify effective ways of creatively and practically responding to it.

Module Requisites

Code Title Requisite Type
MOD013628 Self-Directed Study 1: Let’s Play pre-requisite
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Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Asynchronous Assessment Practical Coursework 1 (Asynch) Project output 1: Display of artwork accompanied by visual journal 0 N/A 40 No 40
Asynchronous Assessment Project Output 1 Exhibition of art work accompanied by visual journal 0 N/A 60 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2
Practical Coursework 1 (Asynch)
Project Output 1

Reading List

Dependent on student interests, and theoretical and practical direction.

Bonsu, O. & Itoje, M. (2022) African Art Now: Fifty pioneers defining African art for the twenty-first century. London: Ilex Press.

Chatterjee, M. (2022) Moving Focus, India: New Perspectives on Modern & Contemporary Art. Melton: ACC Art Books.

Cotton, C. (2020) The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art). London: Thames & Hudson.

Earle, J., Goodall, H., & Katz, J. (Eds.) (2022) Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago.

Enwezor, O. (2019). Contemporary African Art Since 1980. London: Phaidon Press.

Filipovic, E. (2018) The Artist as Curator.  Milan: Mousse Books

Gilman, C. & Malbert, R. (2023) Drawing in the Present Tense. London: Thames & Hudson.

Jones, A. (2022). Postcolonialism and Contemporary Art. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Lee, P. M. (2021). Art of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa. London: Thames & Hudson.

Obrist, H. U. (2020). The Future of Contemporary Art. New York: Penguin Press.

Paul, C. (2023) Digital Art: World of Art. London: Thames & Hudson.

Phaidon Editors [Sic] (2022) Prime: Art's Next Generation. London: Phaidon.

Shaw, L. (2023). Global Contemporary Art: Trends and Perspectives. London: Thames & Hudson.