Module: CME6100-40 Personal Project

Level: 6

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: Robert Brown

Module Tutor Contact Details: r.brown2@bathspa.ac.uk

1.Brief description and aims of module

This module can take a variety of forms – from experimental practice within a creative specialism through to work created as part of an experiential learning experience or arising from a live brief.

This module allows you to work individually on independent projects. This module requires you to be inventive and to explore their own resources in designing and completing a personal project representing a full 40 credits’ work.

2.Outline syllabus

The module aims to foster and promote the development of student projects by the following:

• Identify your needs and make use of available resources.

• Use a journal to record your thinking at different stages and analyse any difficulties encountered.

• Understand the relationship between imagination and practice, and between personal creative energies and the larger world of media.

• Understand and respond to an identified audience develop, in some cases, the negotiating skills required by collaborative work.

• Produce a finished project.

3.Teaching and learning activities

Each student will have a guiding tutor assigned to the project and will be offered up to 10 hours of contact time.

The tutorials will:

• Review the progress of the project

• Discuss the ideas, issues and practical problems arising in the course of the project

• Monitor the practicality of the project in the light of the resources available

• Ensure that each student's contribution to a collaborative project is clearly distinguishable

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: CW

• Description: Project Portfolio (10000 words equivalent)

• % Weighting: 100%