Postgraduate Course: Design Exploration (Illustration) (DESI11118)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This is your core practice-based Design Masters course. It asks you to define, collect, select, analyse and justify an area of creative research practice that is innovative and critically aware. You will produce a cohesive and mature body of practice-based research work.
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| Course description |
The content of this course is specific to your programme specialism. The Virtual Learning Environment supports the teaching and is used for delivery of projects that make up the content and structure of the course.
This course aims to:
1 Enable you to propose, justify and undertake a study plan with clearly defined critical aims, objectives and methods.
2 Enable you to develop a sophisticated body of research material and evidence of practical exploration that communicates a progression of ideas and a critical awareness of contemporary practice and theory.
3 Develop and consolidate your critical analysis and reflective appraisal of appropriate research themes.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This course requires some additional costs to be met by the Student.
Travel: There are required travel costs associated with visits we may run as part of the course. Students will be expected to support the cost of local travel by public transport.
Equipment and software: The can be a low-tech course, although it is recommended that students have their own laptop or use of a laptop for their independent studies and coursework for the course. Any equipment and software required by the course itself will be provided by the School, but students will be expected to provide some specialist equipment including e.g. their own laptop headphones, SD cards.
Materials: Students will be expected to supply their own (or fund the purchase of) general art and design materials, such as sketchbooks, paper and pens and are requested to bring these to studio sessions. The nature of this studio course is that materials will also be consumed and used in the development of coursework (e.g. the development of drawings, models and visualisations). Whilst Course Organisers will support students in meeting the course¿s intended learning outcomes while keeping material costs to a minimum, students will be expected to fund optional material costs as necessary for their own project work.
These costs may fluctuate depending upon individual projects. At ECA we promote the reuse and recycling of materials though, so across all projects this is encouraged. We also would like to note that success in the course is not linked to expenditure; novel or sustainable approaches to material use will be commended.
Printing: Students are expected to fund occasional printing of e.g. A2 posters, other presentation materials for crits, or workshop outputs.
To fully participate in this course students are recommended to budget a minimum of £50. |
| Additional Costs | This course requires some additional costs to be met by the Student.
Travel: There are required travel costs associated with visits we may run as part of the course. Students will be expected to support the cost of local travel by public transport.
Equipment and software: The can be a low-tech course, although it is recommended that students have their own laptop or use of a laptop for their independent studies and coursework for the course. Any equipment and software required by the course itself will be provided by the School, but students will be expected to provide some specialist equipment including e.g. their own laptop headphones, SD cards.
Materials: Students will be expected to supply their own (or fund the purchase of) general art and design materials, such as sketchbooks, paper and pens and are requested to bring these to studio sessions. The nature of this studio course is that materials will also be consumed and used in the development of coursework (e.g. the development of drawings, models and visualisations). Whilst Course Organisers will support students in meeting the course¿s intended learning outcomes while keeping material costs to a minimum, students will be expected to fund optional material costs as necessary for their own project work.
These costs may fluctuate depending upon individual projects. At ECA we promote the reuse and recycling of materials though, so across all projects this is encouraged. We also would like to note that success in the course is not linked to expenditure; novel or sustainable approaches to material use will be commended.
Printing: Students are expected to fund occasional printing of e.g. A2 posters, other presentation materials for crits, or workshop outputs.
To fully participate in this course students are recommended to budget a minimum of £50.
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Lecture Hours 6,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 12,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 22,
External Visit Hours 8,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
342 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Formative and summative assessment will require students submit a portfolio of artifacts, images and text as a single PDF document which will communicate their understanding of the learning acquired through the course. The portfolio elements should evidence both the student's material and conceptual learning and map onto the Learning Outcomes. |
| Feedback |
Feedback is regularly communicated through the course. This takes a number forms, verbally through group and individual meetings where work and ideas are discussed with both peers and tutor. There is also a specific mid semester formative feedback point when indicative grades are given. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- ANALYSE: select and use relevant methods to evaluate appropriate material, precedents and sources with critical understanding.
- CHALLENGE: recognise, rationalise and question thematic strands within practice based research investigations
- PLAN: demonstrate a sense of purpose and autonomy in the development of lines of inquiry in both theory and practice
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Reading List
| All Learning Resources are specific to each Programme and communicated via Talis on LEARN. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Have a personal vision and goals and be able to work towards these in a sustainable way
Be able to exercise critical judgment in creating new understanding
Be able to identify, define and analyse problems and identify or create processes to solve them
Seek and value open feedback to inform genuine self-awareness
Be able to use collaboration and debate effectively to test, modify and strengthen their own views
Understand social, cultural, global and environmental responsibilities and issues |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Amy Dover
Tel:
Email: adover3@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Linsey McEwan
Tel: (01316) 515448
Email: lmcewan2@ed.ac.uk |
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