Whether you are already working in the Graphics and Digital Design industry and planning to get ahead; returning to work or changing your career, this programme will help you to perfect your skills, develop your portfolio and be able to relate them to the workplace. COURSE CONTENT The Graphics and Digital Design programme will develop your technical ability in digital typography, image manipulation, multimedia/web design and design for print. You will be increasingly exposed to professional standard briefs encouraging you to develop your research, communication and problem solving skills. You will be taught visual skills and presentation methods enabling you to express yourself clearly, drawing upon how others have responded to the environment and shaped the culture we share today. Workplace skills will also be part of the course, students will for example be expected to plan and cost products, produce marketing material etc. Studio skills will also be part of the course, students will for example be expected to plan and cost work, produce marketing material etc. You will be encouraged to develop the confidence to analyse art and design outcomes and to reflect on your own progress. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES This award places great emphasis on employability and preparing students for careers in the creative and cultural industries. Students might go on to pursue careers as freelance professional practitioners or in a variety of employment settings. This qualification will help you gain employment within the Graphics and Digital Design industry. Careers opportunities could include Publishing, Designer within an Advertising Agency, Packaging Designer, In-house Designer, Freelance Designer, Web Designer, Multimedia Designer working in television.
Name: Graphics and Digital Design Foundation Degree Qualification title: Foundation Degree in Graphics and Digital Design Qualification type: Foundation degree Assessment You will be assessed using a range of methods, in keeping with the vocational nature of the award; so you might, for example, be assessed on a portfolio of evidence showing how you have responded to a design brief or do a case study of a successful enterprise. Your Reflective Learning Journal will be used to show how you are progressing throughout your time on the course, so it is an important part of the assessment process. The assessment strategy is designed to provide a means of both developing and evaluating practice and performance. It makes use of appropriate, useful tasks and activities that are academically rigorous. These tasks include; port-folio, case studies, presentations and written commentaries and evaluations. The assessment strategy employs a variety of formats to suit different learning styles and to accommodate your varied work-based situations. The aim is to enhance personal and professional development whilst also providing means of evaluating performance. Assessments within a module are designed to match learning outcomes of the module, and the overall pattern of assessment across the programme matches the learning outcomes of the Foundation Degree: Graphics & Digital Design. Tutors and mentors will work with you to ensure that work-based assessment is appropriate to your situation. Great emphasis is placed on the formative nature of assessment, so that you see assessment as an ongoing process of reflection on your performance. Tutor feedback on assessment reflects this, and is given to help you understand how to improve your work, as well as offering you the opportunity to consider and discuss your own progress. Awarding Staffordshire University Created 20160721 10:09:14 Updated 20160721 10:09:14
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