UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME SPECIFICATION Programme Title: Awarding Body: Teaching Institution: Final Awards: Intermediate Awards: Mode of Study: UCAS Codes: 3D Design: Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories Staffordshire University Staffordshire University BA/BA (Hons) Diploma in Higher Education Certificate in Higher Education Full-Time & Part-Time W790 QAA Subject Benchmarks: Art and Design 2008 JACS Code: W200 Professional/Statutory Body: Date of Production: October 2010 Date of Revision: October 2015 If you require this document in a larger text or a different media please contact us. 1
EDUCATIONAL AIMS OF THE PROGRAMME The 3Dimensional Design Programme comprises of three separate Awards which are: BA(Hons) 3D Design: Crafts Award BA(Hons) 3D Design: Ceramics Award BA(Hons) 3D Design: Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories Award Common Aims For all three Awards we aim to: Provide a rich, stimulating design experience, which prioritises your personal and professional growth, enabling you to realise your full potential within contemporary craft/design practice. Enable you to develop your intellectual, theoretical, and practical skills within your own practice as a designer/maker. Create an exciting and creatively challenging framework in which you can confidently develop as an independent maker within your chosen specialist area. Provide an encouraging, supportive and rigorous learning environment that provides professional opportunities, preparing you for lifelong learning within a competitive global environment. Enhance your employability by developing your ability to understand and adapt your creative skills as a professional designer/maker, or in a variety of careers, which exploits the transferable attributes of an art and design education. Provide a flexible learning programme for a wide range of students with diverse experience, qualifications, origins and abilities. Specific Aims Within the Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories Award we aim to: Provide specialist technical skills relating to aspects of body adornment and fine metalworking, from the development of original design concepts through to finely crafted finished work. Encourage a broad creative approach to silversmithing and jewellery making, either as a one-off maker or a designer within mainstream jewellery industries. Provide links with jewellery manufacturing companies as well as individual makers, gallery curators and collectors. Develop an awareness of social, cultural and theoretical issues, within the context of contemporary jewellery and fashion accessory design practice. 2
What is distinctive about this programme? The 3D Design Programme is distinctive because it allows you to choose your personal area of specialist study within one of the three distinct Award areas, which are: 3D Design: Craft Award, 3D Design: Ceramic Award 3D Design: Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories Award. The programme is also distinctive because of a studio-based ethos, with an emphasis on practical making and experimentation. Within each Award area, whether you have chosen to do the 3D Design: Craft Award, the 3D Design: Ceramic Award or the 3D Design: Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories Award, you will be taught a wide range of making processes and techniques including both traditional and new digital technologies. We aim to develop your specialist knowledge within your chosen Award, enabling you to become a more informed contemporary maker and someone who can use specialist skills, professionally and effectively, enabling you to work with materials innovatively and confidently. The programme aims to develop your ability to define and develop an individual career path, whether this is as a designer/maker, and an in-house designer for industry, gallery owner, curator or entrepreneur. Within the 3D Design studio each student is allocated a permanent work station, this offers a creative and stimulating environment where all three Award areas come together, it provides an opportunity for you to discuss and develop design solutions with your peers and staff, both formally and informally. We see this as an important part of the creative learning process, enabling you to develop a more personally focused set of objectives. The 3D Design Programme offers you an opportunity to develop your professional and entrepreneurial experiences through a range of external projects. These opportunities are offered to you through Core 45 credit modules and Core Option 15 credit modules in Level 5 and Level 6, such as Designer/Maker in Context (L5) and Contextualising Practice (L6). The external live projects in both Level 5 and Level 6 are designed to provide you with a greater insight and an appreciation of the professional design world. Many of our graduates benefit from the professional activities within the programme, Core modules such as Professional Practice 15 credits in Level 5 and in Level 6, Design Futures 15 credits and Synthesis and Resolution 45 credits are designed to foster and encourage a greater professional awareness and competitiveness; this is born out by students from each of the three Award areas successfully competing within a national and international design arena. This is reflected by our graduates achievements, winning accolades in recognised awards such as; The New Designers Debenhams Future of Design Competition, Goldsmiths Company Precious Metal Bursary, V&A Ancestors of Dover Jewellery Competition and Pewter Live. What is distinctive about the 3D Design: Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories Award This Award is distinctive because it offers you the opportunity to develop your creative potential as a specialist jeweller, metalworker or silversmith. The Contemporary Jewellery Award encourages an experimental approach in the use of materials and processes. We aim to provide you with a broad understanding of a range of materials, including metals, wood, and resin and as well as a range specialist technical skills. Through excellent specialist technical workshops you will develop a confidence and an ability to realize your creative ideas as innovative 3
finished objects or wearable pieces. The Award aims to provide you with an in depth understanding of contemporary practice and new technologies which relate to aspects and approaches of body adornment and fine metalworking. This diverse approach to the subject encourages you to develop your own personal philosophy, producing final collections that demonstrate the breadth of the discipline. The Award enables you to develop a personal career direction whether this as a craft jeweller or designing jewellery for the mainstream within the silverware industries creating design led objects. The Staffordshire Graduate The Staffordshire Graduate represents a set of qualities that the University passionately believes is necessary for success in the 21st century. The Staffordshire Graduate is a reflective and critical learner with a global perspective, prepared to contribute in the world of work. Your future employability and forthcoming careers are important to us, we make sure that this is embedded into your course and that there are many opportunities for you to consider during your studies. Each level has key elements which addresses aspects of The Staffordshire Graduate ethos which encourages, professional practice and potential employability. We aim to help you understand the breadth of related possibilities in order for you to determine the direction you wish to take upon graduation. Within all of the 3D Design Award areas which encompass, 3D Design: Crafts Award; 3D Design: Ceramic Award and 3D Design: Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories we aim to provide our graduates with the ability to be reflective and critical learners, with an understanding of contemporary markets and a global perspective of their design practice, we endeavour to prepare our students to confidently and professionally engage in the world of work. All three Award areas are designed to provide students with the professional building blocks a designer/maker requires to succeed in the world of work and have employability within a very competitive designer/maker arena. These are closely aligned with the sets of qualities and attributes outlined by The Staffordshire Graduate. Across all levels and within each Award area, we aim to provide our graduates with discipline expertise. We instil specific knowledge within each Award area, through specialist practical technical demonstrations within a workshop and studio environment. This is underpinned by the shared experience of research and professional practice of academic staff within each of the three Award specialisms. As part of our commitment to ensure all our graduates from 3D Design: Crafts Award; 3D Design Ceramic Award and 3D Design Contemporary Jewellery Award demonstrate professionalism and are equipped to enter the world of work with an ability to be enterprising and entrepreneurial designer/makers. We use a range of modules 4
that will develop these skills, including external projects with industry, private clients and other professional bodies. The Professional Practice module introduced in Level 5 and the Design Futures module in Level 6 are both designed to enable graduates to be innovative, think quickly and creatively, ensuring our graduates are able to confidently adapt to new situations. Providing our graduates with a set of transferable skills and abilities, which are attributes future employers are seeking. In order to capitalize on the specialist knowledge and understanding of their chosen Award within the 3D Design programme, we aim to develop every graduate s ability to deliver effective communication. Within each level 4, 5 and 6 there are activities embedded within Core and subject specific Core Option modules. For example, group critiques/tutorials are designed to encourage graduates to communicate ideas clearly to peers and academic staff as well as more formal communication of ideas/concepts to external clients, these opportunities are designed to develop presentation skills both visually and verbally to an audience. Team working is an important aspect of all modules and are nurtured from Level 4 through to a greater professional understanding in Level 5 and Level 6, these skills are particularly developed through the curatorial engagement of group exhibitions such as the Degree Show in Level 6, New Designers in Level 6 and curating a Museum exhibitions in Level 5, these are seen as integral to the professional element within modules. Employers value independence of thought and a creative ability to find innovative solutions. The 3D Design: Crafts Award, 3D Design: Ceramic Award; and the 3Design: Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories Award enables each graduate within their specialist discipline to independently develop ideas through the making process, evaluate the creative solutions and address aspects of problem solving throughout, from the inception of ideas and development of design concepts. All of the above are essential attributes of the critical, reflective and life-long learners that Staffordshire graduates are expected to become. Throughout the three years of study within the chosen Award specific area, students are encouraged to develop an in depth knowledge and an understanding of their specialism and the context in which they are working. This is developed through personal critical reflection and actively engaging in debates and discussions on a broad range of topics relating to current contemporary practice and methodologies including digital technologies. Increasingly problems and solutions are set within a global context; therefore globalization and global citizenship are central to a contemporary designer/makers practice. Understanding how they can best operate creatively and effectively within a very competitive world. Within Core modules in Level 5 and Level 6 graduates are encouraged to consider global aspects of design and manufacture. Developing their awareness of the appropriateness and integrity of design solutions, encouraging an ability to become a more informed designer/maker of 5
the future, operating professionally in a changing creative global landscape. 6
PROGRAMME OUTCOMES 3D Design: Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories What will this programme teach me to do? At the end of your studies you should be able to: Knowledge & Understanding Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of key aspects of contemporary jewellery design and fashion accessories, including the acquisition of coherent and detailed knowledge of relevant contemporary practices and their historical, theoretical, cultural and professional contexts. (4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4) Learning Demonstrate an understanding of a personal incremental learning process, and have the ability to acquire, evaluate and apply new knowledge in the pursuit of professional practice in contemporary jewellery design and fashion accessories with self-initiated aims and objectives. (4.4, 4.6, 5.3, 5.7) Enquiry Select and use appropriate research methods in relation to the development of your contemporary jewellery design and fashion accessory work, through the exploration and development of individually defined responses to a design brief. (4.2, 4.4, 6.3) Analysis Critically analyse current and historical practices and products with reference to current debates around contemporary jewellery design and fashion accessories. To confidently identify a personal position and a direction for developing work within contemporary jewellery and fashion accessory design contexts. (4.4, 6.3, 6.6) Problem Solving Identify and anticipate problems, explore and rationalise design solutions and apply these in the most appropriate way within the parameters of personal ambitions within contemporary practice as a contemporary jeweller and maker of fashion accessories. (4.3, 6.3, 6.6) Communication Confidently communicate information, ideas and design concepts succinctly to an audience both specialist and non-specialist through a range of methods, including, verbal, visual and written in relation to contemporary jewellery and fashion accessory design. (4.3, 4.4, 4.6, 6.6) Application Demonstrate the theoretical and practical application of independent learning, enquiry and analysis throughout the development of ideas and solutions within a contemporary jewellery and fashion accessory design environment. (4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.4, 6.5, 6.6) Reflection Demonstrate the use of critical evaluation and reflection; understand contextual design issues and debates, which will enable students to establish an ability to confidently develop work with creative autonomy, that are innovative and contemporary. Independently identifying a personal pathway, in preparation for professional life as a designer/maker in contemporary jewellery and fashion accessory design. (4.2, 4.6, 5.9) Visual Analysis Analyse visual elements critically as well as creatively, be able to apply and integrate this development innovatively and professionally to contemporary jewellery and fashion accessories design practice. (4.3, 4.5) 7
Working with Others Accept responsibilities, develop the facility to take the initiative but also recognise the rewards of working within a team. Have an awareness of strengths and weaknesses within a group dynamic or with individuals. Acquire an ability to sensitively manage a range of situations in order to facilitate successful achievable outcomes within contemporary jewellery and fashion accessories design arena. (4.1, 4.3, 4.6, 6.4, 6.6) 8
Programme Title: BA (Hons) 3D DESIGN AWARDS Route: Single (Hons) L E V E L 4 Teaching Block 1 Teaching Block 2 3DES40070 Material Investigation and Design History (45) 3DES40071 3d Design Integrating Theory and Practice (45) SUPA40073 Visual Studies (15) DESN40029 Material Enquiry: Form & Surface (15) L E V E L 5 Teaching Block 1 Teaching Block 2 3DES50072 Design, Make, Manufacture (45) 3DES50073 Designer / Maker in Context 3DES50074 Digital Design and Prototyping (15) DESN50028 Professional Practice (45) (15) L E V E L 6 Teaching Block 1 Teaching Block 2 3DES60102 Contextualising Practice (45) 3DES60103 Synthesis and Resolution COST60242 Research, Analysis and Communication Assignment (15) 3DES60101 Design Futures (45) (15) 9
HOW WILL I BE TAUGHT AND ASSESSED? Teaching and Learning All three awards within the 3D Design programme have a number of common Core modules that are supported by specialist Core Option modules, which are tailored to the three specific Award areas: Craft Award, Ceramic Award and the Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories Award. Your design education is firmly base on developing your abilities through practice, which is experienced through a range of project-based activities. There is an integration of theoretical/technical/practical creativity, whereby the theoretical underpinning and knowledge is taught alongside the technical instruction and acquisition of contemporary craft skills. Each practised-based module has within it structured sessions with academic staff, including input through tutorials and contextual lectures, discussions through small seminar groups/critiques as well as technical instruction sessions. Projects may also involve whole groups or working in teams with formal presentations of your work to your peer group and academic staff. The learning experience is incremental as you develop and progress through your three years of study. Your practice as a contemporary maker is informed by a theoretical and contextual understanding and is supported by an awareness and appreciation of your specialist discipline. Projects become more individually focused as you move towards negotiating your personal final learning programme, based on acquired knowledge and your own interests, aims and ambitions. Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategies. Teaching methods are covered through the following categories: Module Information Packs contain all the information you need in order to successfully engage with any module and will typically include: o o o o o o o A cover sheet, detailing the code, title and module manager, with contact details. A detailed timetable for the module, giving days, times and room numbers. An outline of the module content, including project brief. A list, detailing precisely all of the work to be submitted for assessment. Assessment criteria. The module descriptor, including the learning outcomes of the module. Reading list. Lecture/ Presentation, are seen as the most efficient way of imparting information, introducing topics for further study, clarifying the information in the Module Information Pack. Delivered by academic staff or visiting professionals. Seminar/Discussion Groups: involve smaller groups of students, set up to encourage dialogue and debates around current practices within contemporary design practice. Sessions also allow students to discuss work in progress with other peer group members. Tutorials taking place either on an individual, one to one basis or in small groups. These focus on your research and practice, engaging you in critical dialogue that encourages analysis and reflection and shapes the course of future work. Tutorials function as strong elements of formative assessment and feedback. 10
Technical Demonstrations these are defined units or modulettes of technical instruction, usually delivered by technical instructors and are designed to introduce the safe and effective use of equipment, materials and processes. Projects are sometimes set in the manner of a brief devised by an external client, encouraging interaction and dialogue. You may also initiate projects through negotiation with a member of academic staff. This provides the structure within which independent learning through research and practice takes place. Independent practice forms the basis for on-going student learning through experimentation, trial investigations and through the application of reflection, critical analysis and evaluation. Research involves you engaging in a continual process of learning through contact with professional individuals or bodies and through the gathering, sharing, evaluation and presentation of information and knowledge. Group Critiques occurring at points throughout a module, engaging you in a process of critical reflection on your own work and that of your peers, they sometimes function as a period of review and evaluation, it encourages the articulation of honest, independent reflective responses. External visits/ study trips, this is seen as an important aspect of the development of studio and professional practice. External visits include museums, galleries, factories and Trade Fairs. There is an opportunity for you to participate in organised visits to major cultural events and centres, at home and abroad, you are expected to engage in some of these activities. Working with external clients, it is important you gain the experience of working in collaboration with external client s organisations and their peers. It is essential you are able to negotiate, communicate, delegate and plan effectively as a team member. Peer group learning occurs when you work formally and informally alongside your peers, it is designed to encourage an interchange of ideas and opinions, learning different approaches to studio and contextual practice. Blackboard, this is the University Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) which supports a range of learning requirements for undergraduates. It is an online resource, which contains module specific information. Assessment Assessment is based on the submission of coursework, the nature of which is determined by the project/s or assignment/s set within a module, but which may consist of any one or combination of the following components: An essay, written according to given guidelines as to word-count and illustrated as required by the assignment The script for a seminar presentation, or the presentation itself. Where you are expected to deliver a formal presentation as part of the assessment process (rather than an end of module critique). The use of Power Point as a means of 11
delivery is mandatory. Workbooks, sketchbooks or visual diaries, documenting the process of generating, developing and resolving thoughts or ideas, and demonstrating the influence of research on practical work Research books, folders, or dossiers, documenting the gathering, sorting and presentation of research material Finished 3D work, including prototypes and supporting portfolio work, which is professionally presented in the format required by the assignment, project or brief. Assessment is based predominantly on the submission of coursework, as this is the best way to assess the integrated approach to theory and practice that you will engage with. Coursework is carried out in response to assignments, project briefs or self-initiated proposals, and presented in the form appropriate to your professional practice. Allowing you scope to demonstrate the acquisition of inter-related learning outcomes through a variety of different forms of practice. Formative assessment is carried out in tutorial and critique situations and feedback is usually provided to you orally, with a written record kept either by the tutor or by you and an action plan decided as appropriate. This can also take the form of peer or self-assessment exercises. Summative assessment is provided in the form of a grade point (on a scale of 0 15), at the end of a module, and this is accompanied by written feedback from the module tutor to each individual student, relating his/her achievement to the learning outcomes of the module. The grade point scheme is linked, within the Undergraduate Modular Framework Regulations, to a set of general assessment criteria which distinguish attainment at particular levels. Assessment Feedback is provided to you in two ways: orally, in tutorial and critique situations and in writing, using feedback forms that indicate performance against the learning outcomes of the module. Types of Assessment. Student from each of the three Awards, 3D Design: Crafts, 3D Design: Ceramics, and 3D Design: Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories, experience a breadth of assessment types at each level. These include the following: Submission of work to the Faculty office. Work displayed in your studio space you may not present for assessment (but you do have the opportunity to view the work of your peer group) Individual presentation of work by you to a member of staff or client either with work displayed or through a portfolio of work. Team presentation to whole peer group. Assessment where the actual presentation is assessed. 12
Entry Requirements: IELTS score 6.5 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION What qualifications would I need to join this programme? The entry requirements for the award are normally 240 points. In addition to the University s general admissions requirements, applicants are invited to attend an interview, when they have the opportunity to show a portfolio of their Art & Design work to ensure that their creative skills are aligned with the philosophy of the programme. If you are not ready for the first year entry to an Award, you are advised of alternative options, if appropriate. For instance, if you are a student who has not had sufficient previous experience of Art & Design education, or who does not meet the minimum points requirement for a degree programme, you might be advised to take the fouryear option, commencing with a Foundation Year in Art & Design which, on successful completion, would qualify you for automatic progression to Level 4 of your chosen course, subject to your satisfactory interview. We particularly welcome applications from mature students and students with non-standard academic qualifications, and the interview allows us to counsel such students as to their best options. Students with a relevant HND, FdA or equivalent qualification can gain access to the programme, where an interview would identify the best way forward and entry point for you. Disability Statement Staffordshire University operates a policy of inclusive teaching and learning to ensure that all students have an equal opportunity to fulfil their educational potential. Details about how to apply to have your needs assessed can be found at: http://www.staffs.ac.uk/courses_and_study/disabled_students/index.jsp Staffordshire University operates a policy of inclusive teaching and learning to ensure that all students have an equal opportunity to fulfil their educational potential. Details about how to apply to have your needs assessed can be found at: http://www.staffs.ac.uk/study_here/disabled_students/index.jsp AWARD SPECIFIC INFORMATION All three awards within the 3D Design programme have generic Core modules that are supported by specialist Award Option modules, these are tailored to the three specific Award areas: Craft Award, Ceramic Award and the Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories Award Level 4 within the first year all modules are primarily diagnostic in nature and generic in terms of the curriculum content. Semester 1 an important aspect of this semester is the exploration and investigation of a range of materials including wood, metal, ceramics and plastics; this is done through a series of short projects. The experience provides you with an understanding of the creative potential within a range of materials, techniques and process enabling you to become a more informed maker, allowing you to confidently decide on your future direction, choosing your material(s) preferences and your 13
specific Award area. During this semester you will begin to acquire theoretical and contextual knowledge, developing an understanding of the importance of the relationship between theory and practice. Semester 2 You have the opportunity to focus on your chosen Award specialism through Core 45 credit modules. Throughout the Core modules there are a range of additional elective specialist technical skills workshops or modulettes, allowing you to develop unique skill sets appropriate to your chosen Award. In addition to the main Core module you will also choose an Award specific Core Option 15 credit module, these are designed to provide you with additional specialist making skills, developing your personal interests and methods of enquiry. Contextual and theoretical studies are embedded within the Core 45 credit module, this is encouraged through discussion groups and seminars, integral to this activity will be formal visits to museums and galleries as well as written essays and evaluations of your enquiry, this will enable you will begin to understand and evaluate you own practice in relation to contemporary and historical references. These experiences are an important part of your learning experience, providing you with an understanding and appreciation of critical thinking in relation to your practical studio work. Level 5 develops your technical competence and practical design skills, including the implementation and exploration of digital design technologies. Semester 1 provides you with a greater understanding of the professional and commercial realities of contemporary design practice. You are expected to respond to a live external brief, work professionally within a commercial context, developing concepts and innovative ideas that are trend focused. As you begin to adopt independent professional working practices you are expected to take on increasing responsibilities for your own creative journey, development and learning programme. Semester 2 develops your personal creative voice within you own practice, in a clearly focused and informed contemporary contextual framework. Throughout this semester you will begin to develop ideas through practical and theoretical dialogue and discussion. Contextual tasks are embedded within modules in order to enhance the development of ideas within the creative design process. The culmination of this semesters work is exhibited in a public gallery, in collaboration with an external client. Core 45 credit module and a choice of Core Option 15 credit modules will provide you with creative and professional challenges. The modules taught in Semester 2 are designed to develop your specialist designer/maker skills, expanding your creative vocabulary in preparation for your final year. Level 6 you will consolidate and exploit the knowledge, skills and experiences gained during the previous modules, defining and refining your practice with an informed level of professionalism and competiveness. Semester 1 following a personally negotiated creative programme of study you will be encouraged to develop ideas and concepts that sensitively exploit new and traditional materials and techniques, you will be encouraged to generate contemporary objects that explore creative innovation and experimentation. A live brief is also offered to you during this semester, reinforcing the importance of professional engagement and an opportunity for you to develop entrepreneurial skills that can support your future professional ambitions and career aspirations. During this semester you will embark on a Design Project Report a 15 credit core module that is designed to encourage your research and reflective critical analysis; it is an opportunity for you to investigate a topic that is closely aligned with your personal work and interests. This module underpins the Negotiated Practice module. The outcome of Level 6 studies culminates in an end of year, final Degree Show on the Stoke campus and at New Designers, at the Business Design Centre in London, students display work in a professional capacity. Semester 2 is a refined implementation of final work that clearly defines and 14
communicates your professionalism, showcasing a range of finished work for academic public and professional audiences. Design Futures is a 15 credit module that runs parallel with the core Negotiate Project 3,it is designed to focus your aspirations and develop your professional entrepreneurial skills as a designer/maker within your chosen specialist Award, either in 3D Design: Craft, 3D Design: Ceramics or 3D Design: Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Accessories. Further information about the award can be found in the relevant Student Handbook and on the University Website. This includes information about optional modules, learning outcomes at levels below honours, student support, and academic regulations. ==================================== 15
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