AD3048 - Creative 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 your core creative research skills 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 develop foundational knowledge in creative research skills, time management, IT skills, critical thinking and evaluation as well as academic communication skills, particularly discursive oral communication.

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 evaluate evidence
of emerging personal interests, achievement and
development.

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
2 Creative research skills of demonstrating curiosity through written prose, visual presentation and citation.



3 Transferable employability skills through participation in group discussions and in organization of material for assessment

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
4 Demonstrate the capacity for sustained independent work.

Formative:
Each semester 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:
Oral Presentation and Reflective writing (MLO 1 and 3) formative.

Summative:

You will produce:

Individual portfolios gathering evidence of creative research undertaken through the module in response to tasks, including the formative tasks (MLO 2, 3 and 4) summative

These formative and summative assessments will allow you to demonstrate the creative research, professional and transferable employability skills you have acquired in the first university semester. This will include skills of writing in different styles appropriate to Fine Art university study, such as critical and reflective writing, introduction to academic citation and referencing (MLO2); independent research, oral presentation individually and in groups. Your presentation may be delivered as a live or online activity. (MLO 3)

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Art and the City AD3018
The Body AD3017

This semester 1 module enables you to start to identify personal curiosities and build a broad range of creative research skills including transferable employability skills. Creative 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 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 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.