Course Title: Design Discipline 2 - Workshop (skills)

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Design Discipline 2 - Workshop (skills)

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

GRAP2747

RMIT University Vietnam

Undergraduate

840H School of Communication and Design

Face-to-Face

 Viet3 2019

Course Coordinator: Khoa Nguyen

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925

Course Coordinator Email: khoa.nguyen@rmit.edu.au


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Required Prior Study
You should have satisfactorily completed your Year One courses as well as GRAP2749 Design Discipline 2 – Seminar (Theory) course before you commence this course.
Alternatively, you may be able to demonstrate the required skills and knowledge before you start this course. 
Contact your course coordinator if you think you may be eligible for recognition of prior learning.  

 

 


Course Description

You will learn to develop skills that are specific to a selected design discipline. The design discipline will be selected from a set of options that include visual, physical, virtual, service-based and/or mediated design disciplines. The course ensures that you develop in-depth technical knowledge and ability in your chosen areas of design in a practice-based workshop setting.

 

This course draws on skills and knowledge learnt in first year and Design Discipline 2: Seminar (theory).


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course supports your development in these program learning outcomes:
PLO4: Apply advanced visualisation and representation skills (including use of drawing, modelling and colour) to support design practice.
PLO5: Apply core technical skills and emerging design knowledge, skills and technologies, both independently and collaboratively, to enable further learning and professional practice.
PLO6: Exercise creativity, critical thinking and independent judgement to identify and solve real-world design challenges and define and communicate innovative solutions.
PLO7: Apply planning, problem-solving and decision-making skills to the end-to-end design process.


Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
CLO1 Consolidate and develop a personal approach to learning and practicing technical skills particularly to the specified design discipline 

CLO2. Understand and develop a practice-based working process for a range of design techniques and approaches used in the specified design discipline 

CLO3 Demonstrate knowledge and practice of how design processes and approaches may be applied in a production workflow. 

CLO4 Evaluate a desired design production outcome with attention to its situation and context.


Overview of Learning Activities

You will focus on identifying the specific skills you need to further develop your design abilities in a selected design discipline. Learning activities include:

  • Studio sessions where skills are developed and through prototyping ideas into material design artefacts within workshop environments.
  • Developing a practice of journaling design ideas.
  • Lectures and studio tutorials.
  • Peer review processes.
  • Independent design inquiry and critique.

The workshop format gives you the opportunity to explore and apply social, contextual and theoretical design issues in depth and through a variety of approaches, technical principles, real and simulated situations and practical constraints.


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT University will provide you with a range of resources and tools to engage in this course, including studio and workshop facilities, online systems and professional equipment. A selected range of supplies are available, as well as support from technical staff. You will also have access to a wide range of online resources through RMIT Vietnam University Library.


Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course Learning Outcomes and on your development against the Program Learning Outcomes. Assessment is based on an appraisal of your participation in, and contribution to, the workshop activities, including an assessment of acquisition of new skills.

Assessment Tasks
Assessment Task 1: Core Skills Development, 50%, CLOs 1 & 2 

Assessment Task 2: Specialist Skills Development, 50%. CLOs 3 & 4


Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks.
If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.
Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.