Module: PET5102-20 Working Together

Level: 5

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor:  Jenni Lewis

Module Tutor Contact Details: j.lewis@bathspa.ac.uk

1. Brief description and aims of module:

This module has been designed to help you to apply your subject knowledge, understanding and insights to a defined problem, contemporary issue or debate; and to broaden that knowledge and understanding by considering how other disciplines might respond to the same challenges, working across subjects to come up with the creative solutions and practical actions. 

The module is taught by leading scholars and practitioners from Bath Spa University, other universities, and by relevant professionals, each of whom bring their own creativity, expertise and enterprise to the debate. Topics will change from year to year, to ensure that the module is always current and that it reflects recent research, topical concerns, and the ways in which these are emerging or being played out in the contemporary world, including through work with employers and other external partners. 

2. Outline syllabus:

The syllabus for each year will reflect the chosen topic. It will include:

1. Setting the scene: frameworks, methodologies and conventions

2. Creativity and problem solving

3. Understanding the context: an overview of available resources, current debates, access to data, the needs of our partners

4. Posing our question or defining our problem: what are we trying to find out, resolve or suggest? Are we looking for historical precedents or future possibilities? Technical solutions or creative responses? What are we going to do? What will we need in order to be able to do it?

5. Presenting options, solutions and possibilities; adapting these in response to feedback, challenge and alternatives

6. Planning and implementing our project

7. Presenting our ideas, and reflecting on them

Projects are likely to be undertaken in small groups, but we will always try to end the module with an opportunity for everyone to showcase their work more widely – for peers, to the rest of the University, to our partners.

3. Teaching and learning activities:

This module involves some or all of the following, in varying proportions:

• Lectures, seminars, workshops, masterclasses, including those delivered online and by outside speakers

• Group work, discussion and negotiation

• Individual tasks and investigations

• Project planning and design

• Review and evaluation

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Negotiated project (4000 words equivalent)

• % Weighting: 70%

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Final presentation (1000 words)

• % Weighting: 30%