Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Liverpool School of Art & Design
Learning Methods
Lecture
Practical
Seminar
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
6201GD-SEP-MTP
Aims
- Support students to undertake ambitious, sustained self-directed research of a chosen subject 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 and evaluate original insights, develop new approaches and demonstrate a deep understanding of their discipline.
- Support students to effectively articulate, translate and evaluate research and practice across written and visual forms.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Synthesise and assess information and knowledge from a variety of relevant sources, frameworks, traditions, practices, and knowledge systems.
2.
Propose, evaluate and effectively communicate original viewpoints, insights, ideas, and approaches related to a self-identified field of interest demonstrating independent critical thought and judgement.
3.
Translate the results of research through the proposal and execution of a research informed practice-based project.
4.
Examine and evaluate their research within the context of their practice.
5.
Demonstrate the capacity to set goals, manage workloads, plan and organise tasks.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
This syllabus is indicative:
This syllabus is indicative:
- Research planning (title, aims, methodology, structure, format, practical outcome).
- Research methods: e.g. ethnography (including auto and virtual ethnography); content analysis (clustering, mapping, counting); field studies (documentary drawing or photography, interviews, surveys, cultural probes, journals, site visits) etc.
- Research ethics.
- Theoretical frameworks: e.g semiotics, communication theory, feminism, capitalism and Marxism, intersectionality, queer theory, field theory, (sub)cultural capital, decolonisation, entangled history etc.
- Modes of writing: authorial or academic; editorial or journalistic; professional or report-driven.
- Visual content and use of images.
- Formatting and presentation for particular audiences or publishing contexts: publication, visual essay, video essay, informative animation, information graphics, editorial illustration.
- Research through practice: experiments, artworks, real world project scenarios.
Module Overview:
This module offers you the opportunity to articulate your own creative voice. Through sustained self-directed research, analysis and evaluation you will critically explore a subject, related to graphic design, illustration or visual arts, to produce a written outcome and a practice-based project, that reflects your interests, aspirations, ethical principles, lived experiences and personal values.
This module offers you the opportunity to articulate your own creative voice. Through sustained self-directed research, analysis and evaluation you will critically explore a subject, related to graphic design, illustration or visual arts, to produce a written outcome and a practice-based project, that reflects your interests, aspirations, ethical principles, lived experiences and personal values.