| CODE | DGA3011 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Final Project and Dissertation | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 12 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Digital Arts | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The Final Project and Dissertation (5000 – 6000 words) are a student's completion of an extensive curricular and independent experience in a specific area in digital art practice and theory, namely within the areas of Visual Communications, Illustration and Animation. It embraces a programme of study that includes consideration of traditional and contemporary art and design history, critical analysis, aesthetics, methodology and related humanities. The Project and Dissertation testify to the student's ability to produce a significant body of high quality work, and to the effective articulation of his/her artwork that successfully functions in relationship to his/her project in relation to the collective exhibition. Apart from project's value in creative expression, the combination with the written component should serve as a high level development of scholarly competence in the organization, evaluation, and interpretation of knowledge. Study-unit Aims: - To apply and articulate research methodologies underpinning a project in Digital Art and Design at undergraduate level. - To facilitate innovative work which achieves the synthesis of practical, critical and theoretical concerns as evidenced by a project in appropriate media or process. - To present and document an BFA Project and Exhibition that significantly demonstrates relevant work at a high level in the context of contemporary debates in Digital Art and Design. - To demonstrate technical and professional accomplishment in the rendering and dissemination of the project. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Demonstrate an understanding of 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. - 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. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Apply and articulate research methodologies underpinning a project in Digital Art. - Mediate the BFA Project in terms of a Project and Dissertation and to generate creative solutions in presenting visual and verbal information to an audience. - Enable students to question the role and reception of theoretical information in the context of contemporary art publications, information technology and design. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | 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 2024/5. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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