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Undergraduate Course: Studio Practice Exchange 4 (DESI10005)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) Credits40
Home subject areaDesign Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionIndicative course content
This module enables students to develop knowledge and skills appropriate to their discipline within a specific cultural and professional context. Students work on a series of design projects of differing time-frames and complexity within a studio environment. Students are encouraged to collect and analyse research that is creatively informed and critically aware, to enable the development of an integrated iterative process incorporating designing, making, evaluating, presenting and reflecting.

Aims of course
1 to develop high level design and research methods, techniques and approaches
2 explore how designers generate and justify personal design briefs
3 to introduce the cultural and social parameters impacting on design practice in Scotland

Mode of delivery
Studio-Based Project Work, Group Crits, Individual and Group Mentoring, Project Review
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements Pre-requisites


Co-requisites


Prohibited combinations
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. demonstrate proficiency in the research, initiation and development of projects through structured, transparent methodologies
2. apply the creative processes of design to generate, evaluate and resolve concepts through critical assessment and considered judgement with reference to professional practice
3. demonstrate an awareness of the cultural and social context of the host institution
Assessment Information
Assessment plan
Not entered
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Indicative Bibliography
Discipline Specific and Personal Bibliographies to be determined by discussion with Studio Tutors.
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Contact hours 50 hours
Directed study 150 hours
Self-directed study 200 hours
Total 400 hours
KeywordsDESIGN AND APPLIED ARTS, FASHION AND TEXTILES, VISUAL COMMUNICATION
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