| CODE | DGA5908 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Project and Dissertation | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 80 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Digital Arts | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The Degree Project should stand for the clear demonstration of the student鈥檚 practice at Master鈥檚 level. It should clearly show the integral relationship between concept, process, realisation and reflection, and should provide a clear indication of the student鈥檚 potential future success in the chosen area/s of expression within art and design at a professional level and in an international dimension. The Dissertation supports the student鈥檚 practice and defines its relation to contemporary debates in art and design. The writing should clearly demonstrate the historical, theoretical, critical and analytical research conducted by the student in relation to his/her body of work and its documentation. The Project and Dissertation together should ultimately demonstrate a student's clear understanding of interdisciplinary practice and its methodologies in art and design, and locate its application within professional contemporary art and design practice. Study-unit Aims: 鈥� To apply and articulate research methodologies underpinning an advanced project in Art and Design. 鈥� To facilitate innovative work at a Masters level which achieves the synthesis of practical, critical and theoretical concerns as evidenced by a project in appropriate media and process. 鈥� To present and document an Interdisciplinary art project that significantly demonstrates relevant professional work in the context of contemporary debates in Art and Design. 鈥� To demonstrate technical and professional accomplishment in the rendering and dissemination of the project. 鈥� To give value to interdisciplinarity and place importance in considering all factors affecting intervention and outcome in art and design practice. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1) Demonstrate conceptual ability through the development of ideas, appropriate theoretical underpinning and insightive ingenuity by combining personal insight and critical analysis in the creation of individual work at Master鈥檚 level; 2) Understand the practicalities of research, including setting and achieving realistic goals, planning, working in a team, using resources, presentation skills, and meeting institutional requirements and expectations of good practice; 3) Apply the techniques for advancing knowledge and understanding, such as setting up a programme of reading, literature review, techniques of archival research, interviewing, observation studies, ethnographic research, gathering evidence, quantitative methods, and creative practice and design as research; 4) Develop a critical framework in which to review research and research methods, taking account of the contested nature of research practice. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1) Justify appropriate use of media, technology and techniques, and the translation and application of practical skills, in relation to idea or concept through to outcome; 2) Apply and articulate research methodologies underpinning an advanced project in Digital Art; 3) Mediate the research in terms of a Project and Dissertation and to generate creative solutions in presenting visual and verbal information to an audience; 4) Create a research document appropriate for the dissemination of contemporary art and design to the peer fora; 5) Demonstrate self-discipline, manage time through work schedules, and to set objectives through independent and self-directed learning. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: MAIN TEXT - Gray, Carole and Malins, Julian (2004). Visualizing Research: A guide to the Research Process in Art and Design. Ashgate. - Leavey, Patricia (2018). Handbook of Arts-based Research. The Guildford Press. - Alexenberg, Melvin L. (2008). Educating artists for the future: learning at the intersections of art, science, technology and culture. Intellect. READING LIST - Balkema, Annette W. (2004). Artistic Research. Rodopi. - Barrett, Estelle and Bolt, Barbara (2007). Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry. I.B. Tauris. - Gardner, Hazel and Gere, Charlie (2010). Art Practice in a Digital Culture. Ashgate. - Gere, Charlie (2006). Art, Time and Technology. Berg. - Macleod, Katy (2006). Thinking through Art. Routledge. - McNiff, Shaun (1998). Art-based Research. Kingsley. - Sullivan, Graeme (2005). Art practice as research: inquiry in the visual arts. Sage. Other journal articles, reference texts and reading material specifically related to the student's area of research will be suggested by the supervisor and will be made available on the Study Unit e-Learning website. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | **September Assessment Session: Students who fail to obtain an overall pass mark will be re-examined in the Dissertation and Project. However, the resit availability for the Oral Examination is at the discretion of the Board of Examiners. | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Project and Dissertation | ||||||||||||
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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