Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Liverpool School of Art & Design
Learning Methods
Lecture
Practical
Seminar
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
5206GD-JAN-MTP
Aims
- Support students to identify, propose and undertake research into a field of interest related to graphic design, illustration or visual arts with reference to their interests, aspirations, ethical principles, lived experiences and personal values.
- Support students to identify original insights, explore new approaches and examine their discipline.
- Support students to develop the skills, knowledge, and agency to articulate research and plan for Level 6
Learning Outcomes
1.
Use a range of research methodologies to identify and examine information and knowledge from a variety of relevant sources, frameworks, traditions, practices, and knowledge systems.
2.
Apply a range of writing styles to analyse viewpoints, insights, ideas, and approaches related to a self-identified field of interest.
3.
Examine the role of research and writing within the context of their practice.
4.
Compose, present and justify a self-directed research project proposal for the Graphic Arts Research Project at level 6.
5.
Demonstrate the capacity to set goals, plan and organise tasks.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
This syllabus is indicative:
This syllabus is indicative:
- Communication skills: report writing.
- Research proposal workshops (culture mapping and ideation, surveying and reviewing a field of interest, formulating a question, developing an action plan).
- Research skills: Field mapping; qualitative and quantitative methodologies; ethics; primary research (interviews, surveys, visual diaries, cultural probes, site visits etc).
Module Overview:
This module introduces you to a range of research methodologies and writing styles to widen approaches to critical investigation into, through, and for practice and develop your creative voice. You will identify and investigate a field of interest that reflects you and your future aspirations within graphic design, illustration or the visual arts, and use this to develop a project proposal and research plan to guide your L6 studies.
This module introduces you to a range of research methodologies and writing styles to widen approaches to critical investigation into, through, and for practice and develop your creative voice. You will identify and investigate a field of interest that reflects you and your future aspirations within graphic design, illustration or the visual arts, and use this to develop a project proposal and research plan to guide your L6 studies.