Communication Design Modules

Course Aims:

• To engage with deep learning in the context of the students chosen subject specialism 
• To develop a subject specialist understanding of a Communication Design area 
• To develop skills in relation to the subject specialism 
• To develop formal presentation skills

Course Aims:

To consolidate awareness of design outwith specialist disciplinary areas, and highlight the relationship between specialist subject areas, other design disciplines, and other bodies of knowledge.

Course Aims:

This course will provide students with comprehensive tuition in research methods and practices, with an emphasis on the types of source materials which will be employed in the preparation of the Honours Year submission. The course will cover research methods in theory, social sciences, art and design history and anthropology and will expose students to new strategies of research, such as action research and auto ethnography.

Aims 

• To develop students’ knowledge of research methods and strategies of critical inquiry 
• To encourage an active engagement with source materials according to individual research interests 
• To analyse case studies previously adopted with new methods in the pursuit of new meanings 
• To equip students with an advanced vocabulary to engage in discussion on issues of increasing relevance to their own studio practice 
• To further develop the core skills required to formally present debate and discussion in critical, historical and cultural studies

Course Aims:

This course centres on a shared discussion of core philosophical, political, sociological and ethical concepts which are relevant across a range of art, design and academic disciplines and which inform our understanding of both historical and contemporary cultural practices. Through a choice of electives, the course aims to situate a growing sense of the student’s agency as an artist or designer within this shared discussion to emphasise the interconnectedness of cultural practice.

Course Aims:

Using Glasgow and Singapore as central case studies, this course continues work done throughout Level Three in GSA Singapore in considering the urban and local contexts for the practice and study of design, and for the understanding of contemporary cultural considerations. This core course aims to further students’ knowledge and critical understanding of the global practice of design by academic project during an extended visit to The Glasgow School of Art as host institution. The Course will also allow dialogue to take place between GSA and GSA Singapore students who are studying at the same Level to consider how project briefs and learning outcomes may be positively re-interpreted according to local historical, social, cultural and economic conditions. Overall, the course will continue to enhance students’ critical awareness and practical capabilities in the deployment of design thinking and the production.

Course Aims:

• To demonstrate the ability to undertake a sustained period of independent self directed study at the threshold of professional practice 
• To confidently apply appropriate design methods, materials processes and technologies through independent self directed study in Communication Design 
• To offer insights and specialist interpretations and solutions to matters raised by individual Communication Design interests

This course comprises the Honours Year submission to FoCI. The Extended Essay is due at the end of Term 1, and represents a substantive piece of critical inquiry and research commensurate with this level of study.

Aims 

• To encourage an active engagement with source materials according to individual research interests and contemporary contexts 
• To advance students’ confidence in taking critical control of their chosen topics 
• To equip students with an advanced vocabulary to engage in discussion on issues of increasing relevance to their own studio practice 
• To further develop the core skills required to formally present debate and discussion in critical, historical and cultural studies

Course Aims:

This course comprises the Honours Year submission to FoCI. The Curatorial Rationale is due at the end of Term 1, and represents a substantive piece of critical inquiry and research commensurate with this level of study.

Aims 

• To encourage an active engagement with source materials according to individual research interests and contemporary contexts 
• To advance students’ confidence in taking critical control of their chosen topics 
• To equip students with an advanced vocabulary to engage in discussion on issues of increasing relevance to their own studio practice 
• To further develop the core skills required to formally present debate and discussion in critical, historical and cultural studies

Course Aims:

This course comprises the Honours Year submission to FoCI. The Critical Journal is due in Term 2, and represents a substantive piece of critical inquiry and research commensurate with this level of study.

Aims 

• To encourage an active engagement with source materials according to individual research interests and contemporary contexts 
• To advance students’ confidence in taking critical control of their chosen topics 
• To equip students with an advanced vocabulary to engage in discussion on issues of increasing relevance to their own studio practice 
• To further develop the core skills required to formally present debate and discussion in critical, historical and cultural studies

Course Aims:

• To demonstrate the ability to undertake a sustained period of independent self directed study at the threshold of professional practice 
• To confidently apply appropriate design methods, materials processes and technologies through independent self directed study in Communication Design 
• To offer insights and specialist interpretations and solutions to matters raised by individual Communication Design interests