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Intro -- Cover -- Study Skills for Art, Design and Media Students -- Brief contents -- Contents -- Dedication -- Foreword -- How to use this book -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 Preparing for Higher Education -- Before university - application and arrival -- Application for higher education -- Before joining -- What to expect - differences between school or college and university -- Your aspirations -- Joining instructions -- Course information -- Students with disabilities and learning difficulties -- Arriving at university -- Induction and orientation sessions -- How degree courses are organised - credit-based systems -- The university year and week -- Communication - staff and you -- How you learn -- Learning to learn -- Know yourself as a learner -- Self-evaluation: your ambitions - your choices -- My approach: my motivations -- How I work -- Ideas -- Organisation -- Time management -- Research -- Practical - making -- Communication skills -- Personal profile and action plan -- Part 2 Day-to-day studies -- Gathering information -- Lectures -- Note taking -- What you need to read and how much -- Ways to improve your reading -- Read with a purpose -- Reading to understand -- Information sources and intellectual property -- Types of sources -- Electronic databases -- Your learning resource centre/library -- Approaches to project work -- Art, design and media work - the process -- The brief -- Break down the project requirements -- Clarify the problem -- Group work -- Ideas development - creative and critical thinking -- Brainstorming -- organisation and planning -- Project development -- Practical projects -- The practical brief -- Practical projects - where and how you work -- Technical teaching and workshops -- Equipment and materials -- Working with people -- Academic and written assignments -- Writing: why is it important?.
How to improve your writing -- Choice of language -- Writing for note and sketchbooks -- Academic writing -- Writing a good essay -- Procedure for writing an essay -- Evidence, citation, referencing, plagiarism -- Bibliography -- Writing reports -- Writing your brief -- Assessment, 'crits', presentations -- Stages in the assessment process - formative and summative -- Self and peer assessment -- Feedback - 'crits' -- Selecting work for assessment -- Learning outcomes and assessment criteria -- Levels of learning -- Making use of the assessment process -- Preparing for the future - work experience and careers -- Your degree programme and the future -- In-course professional development -- Graduate employment -- Real-life projects for outside organisations -- work experience -- work placements -- Marketing yourself -- Your creative CV - information required -- Job applications and interviews -- Part 3 An introduction to critical, cultural and contextual studies -- Critical, cultural and contextual studies -- Why critical, cultural and contextual studies? -- Starting points - looking at other people's work -- Key ideas and thinkers -- Modernism and postmodernism -- Critical approaches -- Structuralism and post-structuralism -- Theoretical and critical models -- Theoretical and critical models - applications -- Theoretical and critical models - authors and critics to research -- Theories and methods of analysis -- The theory of the sign -- Semiotic analysis -- The theory of codes -- myth -- Intertextuality -- Story telling and narrative -- Content analysis -- Content, genre, physical context -- Content and form -- Styles, movements, genre -- Physical context -- Being critical - what to look for -- A summary of the ideas that critics and academics seek to apply -- Part 4 Specialist media -- Art, design and media - meanings and differences.
Ideas, theories and applications -- Contemporary applied arts -- Ideas, theories and contexts -- Contemporary applied arts practice -- Contemporary applied arts education -- Fine art -- Ideas, theories and contexts -- Fine art practice -- Fine art education -- Graphic design and illustration -- Ideas, theories and contexts -- Graphic design and illustration practice -- Graphic design and illustration education -- Interior and spatial design -- Ideas, theories and contexts -- Interior and spatial design practice -- Interior and spatial design education -- Media -- Ideas, theories and contexts -- Media industries and practices -- Media and film studies education -- Animation industries -- Animation and games art education -- Production of a film/video/animated film -- TV production -- Digital animation -- Film -- Photography -- Ideas, theories and contexts -- Photographic practice -- Photographic education -- Photographic projects -- Product and industrial design -- Ideas, theories and contexts -- Product design and industrial design practice -- Product design and industrial design education -- Appendices -- Art, design and media glossary -- Educational glossary -- Correct English - the mechanics of language -- Tackling an essay project brief -- Essay analysis - assess these examples -- Index.
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