Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 2 2012

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

This unit serves as a capstone for the BFA Interactive and Visual Design course, and is where you will bring together your individual creative expression, design understanding, technical knowledge, and organisational skills taught throughout the course. In this unit, you will present yourself as a design professional through a public exhibition of work from your studios and develop a portfolio of your work. You will undertake professional practice in project management, and gain insights into industry from a range of graduate destinations.

Aims

This unit aims to introduce you to professional practices through insights from design professionals, project management skills and and the public presentation of your design work.

This is an advanced-level final year (capstone) unit that draws upon all the previous learning in your course.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to:
1. demonstrate a creative approach to the integration of concept, style, identity and technology within the production of a professional prortfolio for a specific target audience;
2. follow the processes and tools of project management including interview techniques with clients to ascertain a project's needs, and apply them in design documents;
3. realise the presentation of a major project outcome (developed in your studio units) in a public exhibition;
4. produce and present exhibition catalogue materials that professionally communicate a design philosophy and draw meaningful relationship between concepts and outcomes and situate your work within a broader field of practice;
5. situate your work with the field of design practice and articulate your strengths and philosophy as a design professional.

Content

You will attend a series of lectures by design professionals from a range of design graduate destinations, which will provide insights into various aspects of design processes in industry. You will also attend workshops that show you how to develop an understanding of presenting a value proposition which will provide a foundation to produce an individual professional portfolio and write didactics and promotional materials. The unit content also addresses responding to a design brief, processes for project management, and preparing a design response document for clients. You will learn strategies for the production of a portfolio.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

You will have lectures on aspects of professional devlopment from industry professionals. In a structured mentored environment, you will develop your professional portfolio and, as an individual or part of a project team, will prepare a major project outcome for presentation in a public exhibition and will document the project. You will work in teams to develop responses to a client brief, in response to strategies developed in workshops. You will present your ideas, work in progress and project outcomes during consultations and peer reviews throughout the semester.

Assessment

LATE ASSESSMENT ITEMS
An assessment item submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked. If you are unable to complete your assignment on time and you do not have an approved extension, you should submit on time whatever work you have done.

Faculty Assessment Information
To access complete Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information please refer to the Blackboard site for this unit.FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Description: You will receive continual formative feedback on your progress in this unit during tutorials and discussions throughout the semester.
Weight 0%

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
You will be awarded a final grade on a 1 to 7 scale.

Assessment name: Project Management Document
Description: This assessment involves aspects of project management, and takes the form of a design document developed in response to a client brief.
Relates to objectives: 2, 5
Weight: 35%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Group
Due date: Mid to End Semester

Assessment name: Project Presentation
Description: You will present a fully realised project outcome in the graduate exhibition, developed to professional standards in your design studios, which will be discussed in terms of theory and practice and situated within a field of practice for the gradute exhibition documentation.

Please note:
This item of assessment can be completed EITHER individually or within a group, please notify the Unit Coordinator/Tutor via email how you will be completing the assessment.
If within a group, please also include the names of your group members.
Relates to objectives: 3, 4, 5
Weight: 30%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Group with Individual Component
Due date: Early/Mid & Late Sem

Assessment name: Portfolio
Description: Professional materials including a portfolio of work produced through your degree, properly documented and presented in appropriate mediums, situated within the field of practice, and discussed in terms of theory and practice.
Relates to objectives: 1, 5
Weight: 35%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End of Semester

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

Required Text

There is no set text for this unit.

Recommended References

Perkins, Shel (2010) Talent is not enough: business secrets for designers. Berkeley, Calif.: New Riders

Horine, Greg (2009) Absolute beginner's guide to project management. Indianapolis: Que

Perrin, Richard (2008) Real world project management: beyond conventional wisdom, best practices, and project methodologies. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons

Reiss, Geoff (2007) Project management demystified. London; New York: Taylor & Francis

And a range of resources in other media, available from the unit Blackboard site.

Risk assessment statement

There are no out-of-the ordinary risks for this unit.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 28-May-2012