module specification

The FA6011Planning Studio Practice module supports intensive research and development towards the realisation of your major body of work in the second semester module FA6P02 Consolidating Studio Practice. In this module you will engage in methods of enquiry that are appropriate to your identified areas of interest and supportive of your future creative aspirations.

During the module, you will test out working methods, clarify your intentions,
and frame your project in a contemporary context. The module includes talks, seminars and workshops to support your ability to deliver a professional artistic Project Proposal, a document that you will submit at the end of the module. The document will allow you to clarify the intensions of your final body of work, outline the research context, understand professional practice aspects such as timing, planning, health & safety and other measures needed to be considered in the work towards the realisation of your final body of work.

The FA6011 Planning Studio Practice serves and sustains the BA Fine Art course, delivered in a seamless and integral relationship with the work of other core modules in the level. Students are expected to reflect upon and represent the complexity of critical and creative relationships between and across the body of work undertaken in Level 6, including in the Critical and Contextual Studies dissertation.

By developing and sharing methods of enquiry and professional practice skills - through a journal and project proposal - the aim of this module is for you to acquire knowledge of contemporary art research in such a way that will be enable you to deploy critical thinking with accuracy. By planning and communicating methods of enquiry to peers in advance, one of this module’s objectives is to enable you to identify potential obstacles and solve complex problems throughout the initiation and production of your projects. The module will also enable you to demonstrate skills of reflection and evaluation of concepts and methods of enquiry and the analysis of materials and techniques in the body of work, via a public dialogue with a specialist audience - your peers.

240 credits or equivalent

At the beginning of the module, its aims, key concepts and milestones will be outlined to all students. There will be sessions on the context for and definition of individual method, approaches to research and enquiry into their studio practice to enable their development of knowledge and understanding of said skills (LO1).

Sessions will be dedicated through tutorials, crits and guided independent study to the expansion of a critical contextual framework for practice, demonstrating critical evaluation of own research framework (LO2 and LO3). Throughout the module, students will be required to reflect on their learning experience, reflecting upon and evaluating own studio practice in terms of technical, material and H&S aspects to improve future performance (LO3). There will sessions dedicated to understanding how to produce different types of professional artistic proposals (LO4).

Scheduled teaching provides the guidance and foundation to ensure that independent study is effective in addressing the module’s learning outcomes and assessment tasks.

In-class activity makes use of varied student-centred approaches such as active, flipped and blended learning, so that a range of learning strategies is deployed, and individual learning styles are accommodated. Information is provided through a range of means and sources to minimise and remove barriers to successful progress through the module. The course team seeks to embed the University’s Education for Social Justice Framework in fostering learning that is enjoyable, accessible, relevant and that takes account of the social and cultural context and capital of its students.

Activities foster peer-to-peer community building and support for learning. Reflective learning is promoted through interim formative feedback points that ask students to reflect on their progress, receive help where they identify the opportunity for improvement in learning strategies and outcomes and make recommendations to themselves for future development. Throughout the module, students build a body of work, including written reflections on progress and achievement, this through a combination of directed and independent study. 

The School’s programme of employability events and embedded work-based learning within the curriculum supports students’ personal and career development planning. Through these initiatives, students are increasingly able, as they progress from year to year, to understand the professional environment of their disciplines, the various opportunities available to them, and how to shape their learning according to their ambitions.

On completing the module, the student should be able to:

1. demonstrate individual method of enquiry and how this is applied to a major
body of art work;

2. demonstrate the development and the expansion of critical contextual frameworks for art practice;

3. demonstrate an extensive knowledge and understanding of technical and material needs, as well as health & safety aspects through various formats towards the production of a body of work

4. Demonstrate an understanding and application of the skills to produce a professional artistic proposal

• A journal outlining experimentation, research, evaluation and initial development of a final body of work
• A project proposal outlining the intensions, ideas, materials, risk assessment aspects and other relevant information to enable the planning of a final body of work

Work will be assessed against the learning outcomes in relation to the following criteria:

Assessment Criteria
• Appropriate use of problem solving, testing and experimentation
• Appropriate use of research methods and enquiry
• Quality of analysis and interpretation
• Knowledge of relevant photographic and creative techniques and practices
• Quality of communication and presentation
• Management of own learning and personal professional development

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