MA Design(Part-time)

Year 1

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme students should have shown evidence of being able:
- to demonstrate a sophisticated understanding the current issues and challenges of technology and its application to design, informed by knowledge at the forefront of the design research community;
- proactively to negotiate an innovative design project and to develop, implement and execute plans by which to evaluate this;
- to exhibit mastery in the exercise of established research methodologies and methods in order to define a problem or need and to provide a design solution;
- to take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and to develop professional relationships with others;
- present a design solution effectively displaying advanced technical competence and skills;
- critically and creatively to evaluate current issues, research and advanced scholarship in the discipline.

Transferable (key) skills

- the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity in industry or area of professional practice;
- evaluating their own achievement and that of others;
- self direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations;
- independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
- critically to engage in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.

Assessment

Achievement for the degree of Master (taught programme) will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will involve the achievement of the students in:
- evidencing an ability to conduct independent in-depth enquiry within the discipline;
- demonstrating the ability to apply breadth and/or depth of knowledge to a complex specialist area;
- drawing on a range of perspectives on an area of study;
- evaluating and criticising received opinion;
- make reasoned judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.