2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

DESN5133M Situating Creative Practice

30 creditsClass Size: 50

Module manager: Kenneth Feinstein
Email: k.a.feinstein@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This is a key module in which students will consider creative practice in its intellectual, social, cultural, economic, and aesthetic contexts. This may involve visits to Art and Design organisations and opportunities to work on live briefs both within the university and beyond. This will give students employability and professional practice experience and further their understanding of the cultural and commercial creative industries. The module is divided into three sections: 1) a theoretical introduction 2) a case study 3) a portfolio and report.

Objectives

This module gives students the opportunity to:
- Understand and critically reflect on a range of contexts in which art and design practice and practitioners operate, through an analysis of a range of theoretical texts and cultural organisations.
- research and analyse a case study relevant to their own art and design practice.
- develop a creative project which responds to the social, cultural, and economic issues explored and reflects ethical consideration of their own practice.

This module will be delivered through a combination of lectures, fieldwork visits and practicals. Lectures will engage students with contemporary approaches to issues in the creative and commercial art and design industries and contexts. Fieldwork visits to organisations will give students the opportunity to understand, discuss and apply these issues at first hand. Practical sessions will reflect what has been introduced during the lectures and fieldwork aiding them in the development of their creative project.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Appraise a range of creative and commercial Art and Design industries and critically analyse the social, cultural, aesthetic and economic situation in which they operate.
2. Devise, research and document a case study which reflects on LO1
3. Identify, design and undertake a practical response to a set brief which addresses current issues in the creative or commercial cultural industries.

Skills Learning Outcomes:
4. Students will develop evaluation skills, reflecting on their own practice relation to the case study.

Syllabus

Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lectures	11	1.00	11.00
seminars	1	3.00	3.00
Practicals	6	3.00	18.00
Fieldwork	4	3.00	12.00
Private study hours			256.00
Total Contact hours			44.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Feedback clinics each practical week will offer the chance of regular formative feedback on both written and practical elements.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Portfolio	Portfolio and Critical reflection	50.00
Report	Report (including case study)	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 15/08/2024

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