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Module 1 – Contemporary Practice GDE710 19/20

• Week 1: Introduction

• Week 2: Industry today

• Week 3: Fields of Practice

• Week 4: The Self & Identity

• Week 5: Thoughts on Ideas

• Week 6: Noticing the Ignored

• Week 7: Research and Theory

• Week 8: Skills and Making

• Week 9: Message Delivered

• Week 10: Type and Page

• Week 11: Trends and Environments

• Week 12: New Steps

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Module 2 – Studio and Entrepreneurship GDE730 19/20

• Week 1: Planning, Strategy and Management

• Week 2: Business Models, Studios, Estimating, Invoicing and Budget Management

• Week 3: Legal and IP Frameworks

• Week 4: Business / Project Plans and Communication

• Week 5: The Collaborative Mix

• Week 6: Interdisciplinary Insights

• Week 7: Global Studios

• Week 8: Building New Models and Tools for Future Practice

• Week 9: Core Characteristics, Ethics and Theory

• Week 10: Case Studies Exploring Trends and Outputs of Influential Studios

• Week 11: Revealing Gaps, Targets and Audiences for a New Product or Service Idea

• Week 12: Developing Ideas and Designs for Launch of Authorial Artefact

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Module 3 – Application and Interactions GDE740 20/21

• Week 1: Brief Analysis

• Week 2: Ideas, Craft and Context

• Week 3: Development

• Week 4: Outcome and Ambition

• Week 5: Competitive Context

• Week 6: Brief and Strategy

• Week 7: Positioning and Trends

• Week 8: Concept Development

• Week 9: Concept Development

• Week 10: Design Development

• Week 11: Design Development

• Week 12: Outcome and Ambition

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Module 4 – History and Futures GDE720 20/21

• Week 1: History Revealed

• Week 2: Story Told

• Week 3: Complex Simplicity – Big Data

• Week 4: Projecting a New Perspective

• Week 5: Visual Writing

• Week 6: Research & Curate

• Week 7: Content Review

• Week 8: Design and critique

• Week 9: Service Design and Saving the World

• Week 10: Research and Reveal

• Week 11: Design & Develop

• Week 12: Promote and Test

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MA Project – GDE750 20/21

• Phase 1: Research and Discover

• Phase 2: Define, Test and Prepare

• Phase 3: Design Development

• Phase 4: Deliver