Module: AR7007-60 Masters Project

Level: 7

Credit Value: 60

Module Tutor: Andrew Southall

Module Tutor Contact Details: a.southall@bathspa.ac.uk

1.Brief description and aims of module

This final masters 60-credit module represents the culmination of your programme of study and aims for you to demonstrate your independence and intellectual progress in establishing your professional practice.

For this module, you will establish a line of enquiry, working to a project brief OR a reflective diary or document which charts and contextualises the development of a significant body of work within your specialist discipline appropriate to the Masters level.

The practical outcome (exhibition, performance, video, a learning project or resource, a live project or similar practice-based activities) should demonstrate your ability to apply your understanding of your profession and the research methods, critical thinking, appropriate techniques and/or processes required to create an original body of work.

You are required to construct a reflective evaluation of this activity, which describes your work in relation to the professional discipline and/or research in your field. The evaluation should highlight your knowledge, a critical awareness of relevant current concerns, and the use of appropriate methods at an advanced level.

Students should note that the University has accepted research ethics guidelines which must be followed; and that all research-related work involving human participants must be approved.

Further information will be provided in Award Handbooks.

2.Outline syllabus

Students will work independently demonstrating through reflective practices such as tutorials, crits and seminars their ability their ability to act as an independent professional in their field. The student will engage in an ongoing definition of the project through negotiation with the tutors so that they can achieve the quality descriptors for a higher education qualification at level 7.

As appropriate to individual projects, studio space and/or seminar spaces and specialist workshop facilities will provide the environment for planning and implementing tasks autonomously, however if appropriate to the individual line of enquiry, students may be required to work externally to develop work to a high professional level.

You will have opportunities to communicate your thinking and progress to tutors and peers as a process of critical evaluation and throughout the module you will receive formative feedback through individual and/or group tutorials, peer seminar sessions and group critiques. In many cases this feedback is received both verbally and in a written format. The feedback aims to enable you to see how you may develop and challenge particular aspects of your work.

The module handbooks provide more specific details on schedules, assignments, formative feedback and summative assessment for this module.

3.Teaching and learning activities

• Independent project management and implementation
• Engagement in appropriate research methods, techniques and processes
• Progress presentations
• Group and individual tutorials
• Independent study trips and museum and gallery visits
• Personal presentation, display and documentation of work

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work
• Description: Exhibition
• % Weighting: 90%

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type:
• Description: Evaluative Report
• % Weighting: 10%