Photography 3.2: Context and Audience (PH6CAA) – Aims, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

AIMS

The aims of this unit are:

A1        To enable you to identify external contexts for your creative practice.

A2        To inform practice through external engagement and contextual research.

A3        To encourage independence through professional levels of personal, transferable, and graduate skills.

A4        To enable varying modes of presentation and information sharing to communicate knowledge, understanding and skills.

 

LEARNING OUTCOMES

On satisfactory completion of the unit you will be able to:

LO1    Design one or more projects that engage with external partners. (A1)

LO2    Create opportunities with external partners that support your emerging practice. (A2)

LO3    Synthesise contextual studies with personal practice to create a new body of work. (A2) (A4)

LO4    Produce material that communicates your new knowledge and understanding. (A3)

 

CRITERION

CRITERION

There should be at least one criterion against each learning outcome for the unit

MAPS TO LEARNING OUTCOME
Knowledge

The extent to which knowledge of relevant concepts, practices, theories, and contexts are demonstrated:

Identify, define, and describe appropriate principles, concepts and subject knowledge. (Subject knowledge)

 

Demonstrate the use of technologies, methods, practices and processes related to the subject. (Practical knowledge)

 

Identify, define, and describe contemporary and historical practices, theories, and debates. (Contextual knowledge)

 

Acknowledge emerging practices and wider contexts, that shape subject knowledge and boundaries. (Subject boundaries)

Demonstrating an in depth awareness of practical and contextual knowledge, and a deepening recognition of subject boundaries. LO1, LO2
Understanding

The level of understanding demonstrated through the testing and application of knowledge:

Select, question, test, interpret and synthesize relevant knowledge to inform intentions, ideas, and outcomes. (Research)

 

Apply critical thinking to develop an informed personal position. (Critical thinking)

 

Apply curiosity, creativity, and intellectual enquiry to initiate, test, and articulate ideas and outcomes in inventive and individual ways. (Creativity)

Selecting, testing and interpreting relevant and detailed research, and applying fluent critical thinking and creativity to produce highly effective and individual ideas and outcomes. LO1, LO3, LO4
Application

The degree to which knowledge and understanding are demonstrated through the application of technical, communication, personal, transferable, and graduate skills:

Select, test and use materials, media and techniques to realise and present ideas and solutions. (Practical skills)

 

Apply appropriate technical skills and processes to develop and produce outcomes. (Technical skills)

 

Employ communication skills to effectively present ideas, intentions, and outcomes. (Communication skills)

 

Use personal and transferable skills to effectively sustain independent learning and reflect on progress (Personal and transferable skills)

 

Apply transferable and graduate skills in establishing appropriate professional practices and standards. (Graduate skills)

Applying increasingly professional personal and graduate skills to initiate and sustain studies and emerging practice, and highly relevant practical, technical, and communication skills to articulate ideas, and outcomes effectively. LO2, LO3, LO4