Assessment Criteria

Creative Practice Research
This unit is concerned with the interrogation of ideas,
experimentation, exploration and evaluation related to
the students defined territory of interest, as described in
the Learning Agreement.

40 CREDITS AT LEVEL: 6
TOTAL AMOUNT OF STUDENT LEARNING (NOTIONAL HOURS OF LEARNING) 400 hours

UNIT LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of this unit students will be
able to have attained or demonstrated that they:

• Have, through practice and study, developed a
generative working method, through which, they can
experiment, explore, exploit, evaluate and monitor
ideas, processes and technologies.
• Have understood the importance of a research
based approach in developing original creative ideas.
• Developed a conceptual / practice based vocabulary,
enabling them to produce original work.
• Show a high level of creative independence and
developed transferable skills.

LEARNING & TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Self directed study, supported by individual and group
tutorials, group crits, presentations, regular staff led
meetings, and visiting speakers. Students are
encouraged to capitalise on the unexpected problems
and discoveries as a means of identifying potential
opportunities for further development in the Creative
Practice Resolution Unit.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
• Evidence of learning, demonstrated through an
appropriate body of work as defined by the
curriculum outline.
• The work, reflecting the level of interrogation and
exploration and a fluency of approach towards the
development of original creative ideas.
• Evidence, that individual attitudes have been well
informed through a developed sense of curiosity and
on-going realisation that research, (experimental and
academic) is a fundamental part of the creative
process.

Creative Practice Resolution
This unit is concerned with the further development of student’s ideas, based on the Learning Agreement. Students, build on the discoveries made in the CP Research unit. Students, through a high level of creative practice, take their ideas towards a sense of resolution.

CREDIT VALUE 40 CREDITS AT LEVEL: 6
TOTAL AMOUNT OF STUDENT LEARNING (NOTIONAL HOURS OF LEARNING) 400 hours

Self directed study, supported by individual and group tutorials, group crits, presentations, regular staff led meetings, and visiting speakers provide learning for this unit’s 400 hours in total. A large percentage of this unit will be based on individual student preference, (as described on the Learning Agreement),

UNIT LEARNING OUTCOMES On successful completion of this unit students will be able to have attained or demonstrated that they:
• Have exploited and extended their capability for creative practice within a given or self initiated context.
• Have located their practice within a personally defined cultural territory.
• Have thoroughly exploited, through a developed working method: materials, technologies, processes and concepts, in the forming of their ideas.
• Have exploited and critically evaluated possibilities in resolving the formation of their work.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
• Evidence of learning, demonstrated through an appropriate body of work as defined by the curriculum outline.
• The work, reflecting the level of interrogation and exploration and a fluency of approach towards the development of original creative ideas.
• Evidence, that individual attitudes have been well informed through a developed sense of curiosity and an on-going realisation that ‘development’ is a fundamental part of the creative process.