ARCT41130 Reflective Portfolio Module

Academic Year 2023/2024

The module is intended to support and conclude your learning in the final year of the MArch programme at UCD Architecture. It aims to provide you with further essential skills relevant to your development as a postgraduate student and beyond the academy, and into practice. It builds on work you may have already completed as part of your Modules in MArch 1 and / or MArch 2.

In the first instance, this module will assist you in developing your skills of reflection. Developing such skills enhances your learning experience, and these skills will be directly transferable to any future workplace scenario. Reflection simply involves stepping back from an event or experience to analyze it from different perspectives, with a view to improving future performance.

In the second instance, the module will assist you in developing your skills in communication. Communication is critical to the practice of a professional architect, irrespective of how you choose to practice on graduation. Being an effective communicator as a contemporary practitioner is somewhat complex and requires you to develop excellent listening and presentation skills, abilities to edit, collate and disseminate your own work in a variety of formats, the ability to write clearly and persuasively, and to possess online and digital media skills.

A combination of lectures, workshops, talks, independent learning and regular presentation / discussion of your work with staff and peers will support you in this module.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

Students participating in this module will develop the following:

- A better understanding of their own work and creative practice, situated within wider architectural discourse and creative practices;

- Communication Skills (Presenting, listening, responding);

- Communication Skills (Visual, written, graphics, online);

- Reflection Skills (Ability to consider, discuss and assess their own work across all modules, with a view to improving future learning and future work. This would include verbal and written reflection skills);

Indicative Module Content:

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

10
Small Group

5
Studio

15
Autonomous Student Learning

70
Total

100
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Students are supported and required to demonstrate the authority of their own creative practice within RPM. This requires each student to develop a clear critical position which should assist them in future practice. By offering a range of perspectives to students via a lecture series (Ways and Means), inviting students to critically discuss and reflect on their work and that of their peers and by presenting, writing and discussing their work, students will advance their individual learning. This discursive aspect of the module is then supported in design and editing terms by assisting each student to make a designed and full portfolio of work undertaken across their academic career and across all modules, to enable the students to exit the module with both an intellectual and physical architectural position and trajectory more clearly defined. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Assignment: DRAFT 2: high quality, designed, printed, portfolio of work from across your academic career made both in accordance with the criteria set out in the descriptor and at the commencement of the module Throughout the Trimester n/a Pass/Fail Grade Scale No

0
Assignment: DRAFT 1: high quality, designed, printed, portfolio of work from across your academic career made both in accordance with the criteria set out in the descriptor and at the commencement of the module Varies over the Trimester n/a Pass/Fail Grade Scale No

0
Assignment: FREE SUBMISSION - this is piece of work intent on disseminating or communicating architecture to an audience. Written, visual, aural, online, photography etc. Throughout the Trimester n/a Graded Yes

40
Assignment: FINAL: high quality, designed, printed, portfolio of work from across your academic career made both in accordance with the criteria set out in the descriptor and at the commencement of the module Week 12 n/a Graded Yes

60

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

RPM is a module based on a continuous conversation about the thinking and practice of individual students. Structured will provide an opportunity to discuss progress overall through the MArch program and at least one of these occurs during the semester. Formal feedback post submission of work for assessment will be held in a group / individual format based on the nature of the assessment.

Name Role
Mr James Martin Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Ms Eibhlin Ni Chathasaigh Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
 
2 Trimester (Sep-May)
      
Seminar Offering 50 Week(s) - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Wed 14:00 - 17:50