AD3049 - Creative and Critical Research

You will learn on the module through a stimulating range of practical classes and workshops: mixed-delivery sessions, which may include short presentations by staff, tasks, discussions and visits. Your learning will build upon core creative research skills already acquired in semester 1 through formative exploration individually and in groups to support you as a student in Fine Art. Sessions will be delivered by the module team to ensure you benefit from their particular expertise across a range of disciplines. You will develop academic and professional skills, evidenced from a range of the work you undertake across your Foundation Year.

By attending the lectures and seminars and undertaking the assignments, you will be able to achieve the module learning outcomes. You will enhance your foundational knowledge in creative research skills, time management, IT skills, critical thinking and evaluation as well as academic communication skills.

In addition to learning during contact hours with the module tutors, you will undertake the directed learning of the preparatory activities as well as independent learning. Independent learning generally will take the form of further reading, creative tasks and research, the consolidation of session materials and the completion of the assessment.

The module handbook provides details of sessions, reading lists and assessment criteria. Session learning materials are made available on the e-learning portal. The module tutors will be available in taught sessions, as well as in feedback and consultation hours and by email, to discuss any queries or concerns you have about how to excel academically on the module. Moreover, feedback on formative work and the first summative assessments will also serve to ‘feed forward’, giving guidance on how to improve during the module. In addition, you have a designated Personal Guidance Tutor throughout the entire duration of your programme. The academic side of the Personal Guidance Tutor’s role includes:
• monitoring your ongoing academic progress
• helping you to develop self-reflection skills necessary for continuous academic development
• directing you to further available services which can help them with their academic skills (e.g. Library’s Skills Plus)

You are advised to see your Personal Guidance Tutor at least twice each semester to review your academic progress.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

• Knowledge & Understanding:
1 Ability to collect and further evaluate evidence
of personal interests, critical positions, achievement anddevelopment.

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:

2 Further develop creative and critical research skills through written prose, citation, oral presentation, and independent research.

3 Transferable employability skills through clear communication within teaching activity and assessment task(s).


Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
4 Further develop the capacity for sustained independent work in written and digital format

Formative:
You will meet with the module tutor to review the progress of your assignment tasks, and discuss further development. This will include individual feedback on how to improve your work and satisfy the assessment criteria. (MLO 1-4)
You will produce:
Reflective and critical writing made in response to artworks, guided by prompts. (MLO 1 and 3) formative.

Summative:

You will produce:

An individual written study or review of artwork made in response to prompts, including evidence of research material (MLO 1, 2, 3 and 4) summative

These formative and summative assessments will allow you to demonstrate skills in creative and critical research, and professional and transferable employability skills you have acquired in the first university semester. This will include skills of writing in different styles appropriate to university setting, such as critical and reflective writing, introduction to academic citation and referencing (MLO2); and evidence of independent research (MLO 1, 2, 3 and 4)

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Nature and Technology AD3020
Identity AD3019

This semester 2 module enables you to increase your awareness of personal curiosities and critical positions, and further build a broad range of creative research skills, including transferable employability skills. Creative and critical research skills include writing, visual research, group discussion and presentation. The module is designed to complement your studio practice modules, and will draw on activities in lectures, seminars and specific workshops about building skills to thrive and succeed as a Fine Art student at university. Specialist arts staff will guide your knowledge and understanding of creative and critical research methods which support your ongoing experiences as a Fine Art student. Learning technologies will support your studies and you will be guided to use the university library resources. You will further develop your academic and research skills through the module activities and assignment tasks, complementing the range of the work you undertake across your Foundation Year.