Art and Design

This module is designed to build on your academic learning, together with life and employability skills, ensuring you reach your full potential through a clear understanding of Higher Education expectations.

Alongside developing your skills in communication and academic writing you will explore your best strategies for learning, develop skills in team building, cooperation and resilience and know how these will support your further studies and employability.

This module works in partnership with ARU Personal and professional Development (PPD) Pulse, to support your personal and professional development throughout your four years

The module comprises of 16 Student Standards that will evidence your preparation for undergraduate study.

During your two trimesters of study, you will submit evidence to the sixteen student standards. This allows you to demonstrate your learning journey throughout the module with a focus on learning to learn, resubmissions and improvements support your portfolio and demonstrate your cheerful outlook and resilience to learning.

It will ensure you have a confident understanding of the institutional culture, practices, norms and expectations of British higher education together with personal skills in resilience, teamwork and an understanding of the responsibilities of belonging to a higher educational establishment.

The module aims to ensure you develop:

• Academic Communication
• Effective resilient learning skills
• Career and Life-building skills

Learning to Learn is benchmarked to the Common European Framework of Reference for Language Learning.  Standards 1-7 have clear referencing to the benchmarking within the standard.  Your portfolio of evidence will demonstrate competence in each of the four skills of academic reading, writing, speaking, and listening and are included to confirm that you meet the appropriate exit threshold in English language proficiency.

Within this module you will be introduced to various fundamental crafts, skills, and techniques required to support and study of a range of subjects associated with Art, Design and Architecture. Creative Workshops 1 is delivered via a series of craft related, hands-on workshops and art practice. This aims to encourage and facilitate your individual creative expression through experimentation, observation and responding through drawings and image-making, using traditional and digital processes and techniques in a variety of contexts.

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Composition and Style teaches a structured introduction to all aspects and stages of the academic writing process. This module is vital for providing you with the knowledge required for the preparation and completion of written assignments within university and to university standards. This includes research and note-taking; structuring work; drafting and redrafting; editing and proof-reading; achieving an effective academic style; referencing; writing effectively under differing conditions; using feedback on your written work and grammar and punctuation. A considerable proportion of this module focuses on writing processes, and more specifically how these processes correspond to the different creative stages of writing.

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Approach to design is designed to introduce you to some of the fundamental aspects of design and visual language that is required to support a range of subjects associated with Art, Design and Architecture. Teaching for this module is centred on practical exploration and problem-solving in response to a series of lectures, workshops, activities/tasks, and project-based assignments.

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Critical and Contextual Studies introduces you to some of the key aspects of visual, contextual, and cultural studies required to support a range of subjects associated with Art, Design and Architecture. This module combines historical and present conceptions on a variety of related topics and has been designed to support you in developing a wide range of study skills needed for your intended pathway subject; this includes research, critical thinking, referencing, reflective practice, communication, visual literacy, and presentation.

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Creative Workshops 2 has been designed to help you develop competencies in drawing, visualisation, and image-making which in turn will help to support core skills and techniques required for various subjects associated with Art, Design and Architecture. Within this module, you will explore further elements and principles of art, design, and the built environment. You will combine different techniques to interpret and respond to creative themes and produce creative work.

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The purpose of this module is to give you the opportunity to confirm your independent areas of interest through a major Specialist Project. You will apply what you have learnt and developed in other modules and visually communicate your work via a portfolio presentation. Language, communication, and presentations skills will be further explored through report writing and conducting active research with regards to intended study routes, careers, and associated industries. You will be guided towards developing a self-initiated Specialist Project proposal which clearly explores aspects of your intended progression route e.g., graphic design, interior design, architecture, digital arts, game design, photography, illustration, fine art.

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