Type of project:
This is for you to decide, according to your area of specialism. You are advised not to undertake a project in a field in which you have not any preparatory experience. It may be a video production, a piece of animation, a portfolio of creative digital prints, photographs, illustrations, a motion graphics sequence, a website, interactive media, sound – or a combination of some of these. It must involve some elements of digital media. It might be a realistic commercial project in its scope, or it could be a conceptual art piece.
Communication
It is likely that you will be required to maintain a weekly blog of your learning experience, production and critical reflection. This blog will be visible to your fellow students and also the module tutor: both will thus have the opportunity to offer you guidance and ideas. Your module tutor will advise you of any requirement for a blog.
The critical statement
Communication
It is likely that you will be required to maintain a weekly blog of your learning experience, production and critical reflection. This blog will be visible to your fellow students and also the module tutor: both will thus have the opportunity to offer you guidance and ideas. Your module tutor will advise you of any requirement for a blog.
The critical statement
This should be a critical discourse of your ideas, and an argument for their validity and foundation in your practical project. You are expected to refer to critical works, cultural issues and also other practitioners in your field. It should not simply be an account of what you did. If you make an assertion, this must be referenced, not simply your unsubstantiated opinion. Your critical statement should also be referenced according to the Harvard system and marks will be deducted for work that is not referenced. You will find a useful guide on this link:
http://www.worc.ac.uk/ils/1383.htm
Collaboration:
You may collaborate with a colleague on your Independent Study, provided that it is clear as to what your area of responsibility and contribution is. This should be stated in the proposal stage, and preferably in CDME4001, Practice as Research.
Scope of project:
The project must have the scope for you to engage with it as a major project over the equivalent of three modules, as 60 credits. It might well be your showpiece to evidence your practice to a prospective employer or client. However, it should be manageable within the time. Your tutor will advise you.
The Independent Study is your 'master piece'. It should incorporate all of the creative, critical and practical skills that you have acquired over your course. Try to be original in your concept. It should be significant as an investigative and creative learning experience. Think of a topic and approach that will be distinguished as memorable, critically incisive, creatively challenging and, of course, on which you will enjoy working.
Submission
Submission
Submission should be to Registry, not to the module tutor. You should receive a receipt for handing in. The submission date is published on the University calendar (see website) and will also be given to you by your tutor.
Submissions that miss the deadline will only receive the minimum pass mark. After five days, non submission will result in an automatic fail and the necessity of retaking the whole module.
Submissions that miss the deadline will only receive the minimum pass mark. After five days, non submission will result in an automatic fail and the necessity of retaking the whole module.
Mitigating circumstances
If you are unable to meet the deadline, and consider that you have a valid reason for this, please advise your module tutor as soon as possible. You will be invited to apply for mitigating circumstances and an extension of the submission date, if you are successful in your application.
Plagiarism
All references must be acknowledged. Assignment work – whether practical or written – that is submitted as the student's own work but which is the work of another, without acknowledgment, will be referred to the Cheating Committee.
Hand in
This is in the week beginning Monday 8th August
Do not hand your assignment CD/DVD to the module tutor on the day of submission. Instead, place your disk in a plastic sleeve with the cover sheet with the bar code (download this from SOLE). Seal it and submit it to the drop in point at Bredon. In this way, you will have proof of hand in. Note that assignments that miss the submission deadline can only score the minimum pass mark. After five days, late submissions will score an automatic fail! You will then have to re-take the entire module.
Plagiarism
All references must be acknowledged. Assignment work – whether practical or written – that is submitted as the student's own work but which is the work of another, without acknowledgment, will be referred to the Cheating Committee.
Hand in
This is in the week beginning Monday 8th August
Do not hand your assignment CD/DVD to the module tutor on the day of submission. Instead, place your disk in a plastic sleeve with the cover sheet with the bar code (download this from SOLE). Seal it and submit it to the drop in point at Bredon. In this way, you will have proof of hand in. Note that assignments that miss the submission deadline can only score the minimum pass mark. After five days, late submissions will score an automatic fail! You will then have to re-take the entire module.