MA Design
Year 1
(Award available for year: Master of Arts)
Learning outcomes
On completion of the year/programme, students should have provided evidence of being able to: - Demonstrate in-depth, extended or specialist knowledge of the current issues and challenges of technology and its application to design, informed by knowledge at the forefront of the design research community. - Proactively negotiate an innovative design project and evaluate it. - Exhibit competence in the exercise of established research methodologies and methods in order to define a problem or need and to provide a design solution. - 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 evaluate issues, research and scholarship in Design.
Transferable (key) skills
Masters (taught), Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities, as defined in the modules specified for the programme: - 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 that ensures continuing professional development. - Critically 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 include: - 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.