Syllabus

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Evaluate the criteria of critical thinking in your own design practice;

produce text describing and framing your own design approach;

consider the careful balance between practice and theory in your work;

identify connections between communication design and theoretical frameworks beyond design theory;

relate aspects of your design practice in a wider intellectual discourse

Credits: 6

Schedule: 06.09.2024 - 27.11.2024

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Arja Karhumaa

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  This seminar course acts as a core of your first year studies: it introduces you to the learning community at VCD as a space to define your own design practice. The course introduces an alphabet of critical concepts as necessary tools of diffracting design. By way of lectures, presentations, readings, and discussion, criticality is introduced as means to recognize normative ways of being in the world, and to imagine alternative ones. With focus in peer learning, classes aim to delineate past, present, emerging, and potential modes of sustainable practice within communication design.You learn to develop your understanding of your own practice  by writing, documenting, annotating, and/or archiving your work. 

Assessment Methods and Criteria

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Evaluation criteria: participation in teaching, completed assignments.

  Minimum 80% attendance.

  See MyCourses for more detailed information on evaluations methods and criteria.

Workload

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  6 ECTS ≈ 162h

  Contact teaching 36h/Other 126h

  Lectures 12h
  Groupwork 20h
  Independent reading and writing 50h
  Reflection and thinking 80h

DETAILS

Substitutes for Courses

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  Substitutes for Courses

Prerequisites

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Prerequisites

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Teaching Language: English

  Teaching Period: 2024-2025 Autumn I - II
  2025-2026 Autumn I - II

  Registration:

  VCD students only (major and exchange) Minimum amount of participants 8
  Maximum amount of participants 30.

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