Postgraduate Course: Knowledge Integration and Project Planning: Creative Industries (EFIE11119)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh Futures Institute |
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 | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | *Programme Core Course: Creative Industries (MSc)*
This course will help you develop strong, creative and methodologically robust interdisciplinary projects. It provides space for you to reflect on your learning, develop your digital writing and communication skills, and explore research methods appropriate to your project. Via this course you will bring together the cross-disciplinary understandings gained from your taught courses, and apply these to the design of your final project. |
| Course description |
This course provides a framework through which students can reflect on their learning as they develop a final project idea to pitch to peers either as a team dissertation project, or as a negotiated part of a client-defined project. Students will begin considering project ideas during the early weeks of semester 1, and will develop them over semesters 1 and 2, using a blog to create a record of the development of their thinking.
You will receive a handbook which will clearly sets out the expectations for this piece of work. It will include the requirement to engage in, and reflect on, how different disciplinary perspectives converge on your project area, how the methods training you may have taken might influence the project plan, accounts of changes in thinking regarding project design and other requirements specific to your individual programme.
You will be required to make regular posts across the entire period of your studies, with evidence of active engagement and meaningful, consistent reflection required in order to pass. The handbook will specify the detailed requirements for these posts (for example frequency and format).
The primary medium for the course will be a digital environment which supports reflection across time, for example a blog or comparable space in which regular posts can be made, and which supports multiple formats and modes of representation (text, image, video). Programmes will choose the environment which aligns best with their pedagogic ethos, but a blog space will be provided as a baseline for all programmes. This space will be designed to enable peer support and peer commentary on each other's work, with granular permissions allowing you to make posts public or entirely private where preferred. It will be lightly monitored by Teaching Assistants (TAs) in order to help programme teams identify instances where students appear to be struggling. It will be supported by 2 group supervision meetings, each of which integrate with the support plan for the final project. If the student is struggling and desires a one-to-one exchange, this can be arranged with the programme director.
At the end of Semester 1 (in year 1 for full-time students) you will submit a '1000 Word Preliminary Project Title and Proposal', which should be informed by the reflective blogging undertaken throughout your studies. You will receive formative feedback on this from your Individual Project Supervisor, who will be assigned in early Semester 2 (for full-time students).
Students' reflections will culminate in the articulation of a set of key issues emerging from their thinking over the period of their study, reflecting on the cross-disciplinary and methodological implications of their studies and applying their thinking to a coherent, robust and well-structured plan either for a team project, or for an key issue which they would like to address within the context of the team project.
To communicate this issue effectively to others, each student will create a 1500 word reflective summary of their ideas and proposal, and a 500 word pitch either to lead a team project or to contribute a sub-element of a wider project. The pitches will be used to identify team members whose interests align and complement one another for the team-based dissertation. The combined 2000 word document will be submitted as the final assessed element of the course (in early May) and will form the basis of a focused meeting with group supervisors.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
| Course Start Date |
16/09/2024 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
194 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
The course will be assessed on a pass/fail basis.
To pass, students must pass both of the following assessment components:
1) 1000 Word Preliminary Project Proposal and Title (Informed by Reflective Blogging) (Summative - Pass/Fail)
As this is a pass/fail assessment component, students will be given one failure retreival opportunity if they fail the assessment on the first attempt.
Failure Retrieval Process for Pass/Fail Component:
- Mandatory meeting with Programme Director to discuss progress if above assessment is not submitted/failed.
2) 1500 Word Finalised Project Plan and Title / 500 Word Pitch / Evidence of Meaningful Blogging Engagement Appendix (Summative - Pass/Fail)
As this is a pass/fail assessment component, students will be given one failure retreival opportunity if they fail the assessment on the first attempt.
Failure Retrieval Process for Pass/Fail Component:
- Evidence of Meaningful Blogging Engagement Appenix: Essay of 1000 words to provide an account of how you have reflected on your learning throughout the programme and how you applied these reflections when developing your 1500 Word Futures Project Plan.
- 1500 Word Futures Project Plan / 500 Word Pitch (Pass/Fail): Oral examination to explain project proposal and address any shortfalls in proposed methodology. Two members of academic staff will conduct this oral examination.
Since this course will be assessed on a pass/fail basis, EFI will disregard course results when calculating average marks for the purposes of determining the award of Merit or Distinction for the programme.
Given that the project will run in parallel with taught elements of the programme, there will not be a formal progression point between the taught element and the project component.
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| Feedback |
Feedback on this course will take three forms:
1) A culture of collegiality, peer feedback and support will be built to encourage students to share and comment on each other's posts; where students wish to make posts public - and it's appropriate to do so - there may be elements of support via commentary from external partners and a global public.
2) Students will receive formative feedback from their supervisor, focused on their 1000 Word Preliminary Project Proposal and Title - this will feed-forward into their final project plan.
3) Detailed feedback on the 1500 Word Finalised Project Plan and Title / 500 Word Pitch / Evidence of Meaningful Blogging Engagement Appendix, allowing the student to take account of it as they begin focused work on their project over the summer period. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Evidence the ability to take a consistently reflexive approach to their own intellectual development.
- Evaluate, synthesise and apply insights from across disciplines to a discrete project idea.
- Demonstrate knowledge of a range of methodological approaches to enquiry, and make a convincing case for how these shape project design.
- Apply critical, creative and informed approaches to the design and scoping of a project.
- Use an appropriate range of approaches to communicating and synthesising complex ideas from across diverse knowledge domains.
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Reading List
| Readings will be largely drawn from the core and elective courses on which students are enrolled, and the domain-specific events and activities they are engaged in. However there will also be a list specific to this course, updated annually and co-created across programmes, to incorporate readings in relevant areas including academic and general writing skills, digital communication skills, research project management, communicating visually and critical reflection. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Through this course, students will:
Demonstrate integrative knowledge and understanding of cross-disciplinary perspectives on enquiry (SCQF 1).
Students will learn how to apply their knowledge, skills and understanding to the design of a project (SCQF 2).
Students will scope cross-disciplinary approaches to enquiry from a critical and integrative perspective (SCQF 3).
Students will develop high level skills in communication and representation of knowledge across different forms (SCQF 4).
Students will develop skills in reflective practice and demonstrate a high level of autonomy, taking responsibility for their own learning and supporting that of others (SCQF 5). |
| Keywords | Creative Industries,Knowledge Integration,Project Planning |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Candace Jones
Tel: (0131 6)51 3858
Email: Candace.Jones@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr David Murphy
Tel:
Email: dmurphy7@ed.ac.uk |
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