Module: TFE5003-20 Production Practice 1

Level: 5

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: Kath Montagu / Jon Grant

Module Tutor Contact Details: k.montagu@bathspa.ac.uk j.grant@bathspa.ac.uk

1. Brief description and aims of module:

This module builds on module TPEP4005 to develop your use of critical evaluation to aid your self-development through reflective practice. It also draws on that critical ability to enable you to develop complex ideas or arguments at an intermediate level. It emphasises how to select the best means of investigating and identifying targets for future academic development and career aspirations.

This module aims to:

• Provide a collaborative environment in which to develop an area of independent study

• Foster a positive approach to lifelong learning and career development

• Facilitate the expression of ideas within an academic context

2. Outline syllabus

Building upon the practical and theoretical skills learnt at Level 4 study you continue to produce a digital portfolio reflective of your subject interest, but as your areas of specialism become clearer in your other Level 5 modules, this portfolio will shift its focus. This Personal Development Portfolio charts your acquisition of skills and subject-specific academic knowledge across the first year of your studies.

To develop your knowledge and understanding of the wider production process, you map your progress, personal development and subject interests by identifying further areas of research into productions, practitioners, processes, new developments in technology and professional practices. You analyse your learning by defining the skills you have acquired throughout the year (skills that you may still need to acquire) and define measurable and realistic targets.

Having identifying subject specific interests, your independent research project must relate to one or both of these. You negotiate a project brief with your tutors.

You must evidence all your work by reading key texts, journals, online materials, and interviews with practitioners and evaluation of professional work.

3. Teaching and learning activities

This study module focuses on independent learning. There is some initial lecture delivery around research, PDP and planning, but in the main tutor contact is through advisory tutorials to support the study choice and planning. There are subsequent check-up points. In developing a project brief, you should articulate clearly how you intend to process your learning and manage it over the duration of the module.

The essay can be a 3000 word submission, practical study of equivalent scale, or it can combine practical and written elements. You negotiate this in tutorials. You can work individually on a single study, or you can choose to work collaboratively on a piece of shared research, performance or blended project. Staff encourage such collaboration, however a group submission is not allowed. In negotiating the project, it must be clear that each member of the group has clearly identified their role in the project and their topic of investigation.

How you present your final submission is integral to demonstrating the critical thinking at the heart of this module. An indicative final submission might be a performance piece with an accompanying analysis. It could be a conventional essay. It could be a combination of a personal write-up drawing on a shared experiment. It could be a portfolio of work, but this must not exceed the word count or equivalent.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Research Essay (3000 words)

• % Weighting: 60%

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: PDP Presentation

• % Weighting: 40%