6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL
Postgraduate - Unit
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Prerequisites
Admission to Master of Design (by coursework)
Prohibitions
TAD4521
Synopsis
The topics include simple techniques in information technology and efficient management of bibliographic resources, and extend to discussions of topics such as postmodern theory, difference studies, structuralist theory, post-structural writing, literary criticism, deconstruction, and paradoxes in the histories of otherness. Positivist paradigms of knowledge and research are critically examined for their applicability to the realm of design.
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this unit students will:
- Be aware of current discourses in a range of disciplines which bear on contemporary design;
- Be able to pursue critical arguments with a sense of their ideological relativity;
- Assess the bias of an investigative method, considering gender, class and ethnicity;
- Understand methodology as a critique of method and be able to practice criticism in their chosen field;
- Be ready to explain the basis of designs or art works not merely as the outcome of practical constraints but the expression of cultural values.
Assessment
100% in-semester assessment
Workload requirements
12 hours per week including 2 contact hours plus 10 hours of class paper preparation, library research and independent study.
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