MA Digital Design Futures

Year 1

(Award available for year: Master of Arts)

Learning outcomes

Demonstrate specialist knowledge and techniques relevant to Digital Design.

Select, test and make appropriate use of technology & processes.

Take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and to develop professional relationships with others.

Generate ideas, concepts, proposals, solutions or arguments independently and/or collaboratively in response to set briefs and/or as self-initiated activity. 

Critically and creatively evaluate current issues, research and advanced scholarship in the discipline. 

Use convergent and divergent thinking in the processes of observation, investigation, speculative enquiry, visualisation and/or making. 

Develop ideas through to outcomes, for example, images, artefacts, environments, products, systems and processes, or texts.

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;
* exercise self-management skills in managing their workloads and meeting deadlines;
* analyse information and experiences, and formulate reasoned arguments;
* benefit from the critical judgements of others and recognise their personal strengths and needs;
* apply interpersonal and social skills to interact with others;
* communicate ideas and information in visual, oral and written forms;
* present ideas and work to their audiences;
* apply information skills to navigate, retrieve, and manage information from a variety of sources;
* select and employ relevant technologies.

Assessment

* 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 received opinion;
* make sound judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.