LECTURE ONE: COP3 AIMS (SYNTHESIS)//OUGD601

third year

lecture one: COP3 aims
Theory - action - reflection

Students will develop a cohesive research project, with practical and textual outcomes, in response to a proposal developed during the

later stages of the Level 5 programme.

This module will require the students to organise and undertake a personal programme of in-depth critical research, to collate and present

a coherent written argument and related practical investigation based on analysis and evaluation, presented in the form of an extended 

formal written study and related practice-based research.

The work undertaken will reveal the student’s appreciation and application of research approaches and methodologies.

methodology

method - a way of proceeding about something   in a systematic or logical manner.

Methodology - The science of method, employed in a particular activity

A logical and predefined and systematic strategy by which to undertake a research project, including methods of evaluation, schedules and 

stated intentions.

learning outcomes:

knowledge and understanding

6A1: Demonstrate an independent critical understanding of the aesthetic, cultural, historical, technological, social, political or other

contexts relevant to individual subject disciplines.

6B1: Evidence the ability to use logic, reasoning and critical judgement to analyse ideas from a range of primary and

secondary sources, and employ critical and theoretical methodologies to evaluate examples from the relevant subject

discipline 

C1: Evidence the capacity for undertaking a wide range of independent practical and theoretical research that demonstrates

an informed application of critical, effective and testable processes.

6D1: Organise, plan and effectively manage self-directed projects and communicate outcomes through written and other appropriate

forms.

6A1: Demonstrate an independent critical understanding of the aesthetic, cultural, historical, technological, social, political or other contexts 

relevant to individual subject disciplines.  

6A4: Demonstrate a critical understanding of the synthesis between the theoretical and practical contexts of their own creative

concerns. 

synthesis

  - All component parts of the project engaging in one complex, dynamic process

  - Informed engagement

  - The realisation of theory in, and through, practice

  - PRAXIS

  - CoP3 is a synthesised research project from the very beginning.