MAPDPRA Practical Training Emneplan

Design competence is sought after and highly valued in many different professional arenas in society today. This requires design students to develop their knowledge, skills, and general competences in various professional environments by working on a variety of tasks and projects in collaboration with designers and professionals from different fields.

Admission to the Master's programme.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student

• knows how to adjust and implement design knowledge into a dynamic and professional environment
• understands the organizational structures and roles within a business, public or private institution or organization

Skills

The student

• can work with projects under pressure from deadlines and given design project criterias
• can collaborate professionally with work colleagues, team members, clients etc. on a design brief/project
• manage to critically reflect on experiences gained from the practical training in relation to own learning

General competence

The student

• can engage and apply their knowledge and skills to carry out design related work tasks within a professional environment
• can, based on theory and research, critically evaluate own and others practice
• has developed an understanding about the role to come as a professional designer, different possibilities within the discipline and own preferences

In the BSCA specialisation, campus-based lectures and seminars are the main teaching methods. Students read selected texts in advance for each day of class, and everyone is expected to participate in class through questions and through joining in discussion. In the BSII specialisation, the main teaching method is digital course sequences, and feedback on details of course content, and supervised discussion groups will be available during pre-determined time periods. Feedback on written assignments is used in both specialisations.

The students will complete practical training in a design business, public institution or organization over a period of twelve weeks. During this time, students will take part in professional projects. Practice will be related to reflecting processes and theory through course assignments. Guidance will come from both the staff working at the place of practical training as well as the university teaching staff.

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• 2 written and visual reflection notes
• participation in digital midway presentation

Completion of a three months full-time practical and a written thesis highlighting work and process carried out at the location of the practical placement.

The examination result can be appealed.

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Admission to the study program

On successful completion of the course, the student has the following learning outcomes classified as knowledge and skills:

Knowledge

The student can

• describe and discuss societal influences that support a complexity perspective
• describe and discuss complexity as a scientific approach
• describe and discuss dualism as a philosophical perspective, and the problems with dualism in applied settings
• describe concepts from complexity science such as reductionism; emergence; critical mass; consilience, and the unity of science
• give examples of analyses of the same phenomenon at different levels of reduction
• describe and discuss differences in antagonistic and complementary professional approaches to the same phenomenon
• describe and discuss the principle of selection at different levels of complexity

Skills

The student can

• analyze networks as the structure of complex adaptive systems
• identify nodes and hubs, assessing the robustness and vulnerability of Networks
• identify category mistakes and discuss mentalism and evolutionary approaches
• cite sources and arrange a reference list according to the current standard from APA
• use a digital reference manager for citations and references in written assignments