Practice Based Impact

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Modules

Courses / Modules / ARTD1174 Practice Based Impact

When you'll study it

Semester 2

CATS points

ECTS points

Level

Level 4

Module lead

Daniel Hobson

Academic year

2027-28

Module overview

In this module you will be introduce to illustration as a practice that communicates ideas, stories, and experiences to different audiences. Through structured studio tasks, practice based experimentation, and guided research, you will begin to understand how illustration can influence people, respond to contexts, and contribute to conversations in the wider world. You will explore a range of drawing, making, and digital skills while learning how illustrators work with meaning, message, and visual voice. The module emphasises hands‑on discovery, reflective thinking, and developing confidence in trying new processes. By working on small, focused projects, students gain early experience in how illustration can have impact—whether personal, social, cultural or communicative—while building foundational studio habits and working methods.

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

Specialist roles, skills, processes and audiences relevant to your discipline

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

Communicate and present ideas effectively to audiences across a range of formats

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

Employ relevant materials, media, techniques, methods, technologies and workshop skills from concept to outcome.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

Creatively problem solve ideas through observation and investigation

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods may include: • Project Briefings • Group tutorials and discussions • One-to-one tutorials • Critical Reviews • Seminars • Creative and technical workshops • Technical demonstrations • Visual presentations Learning activities include: • Research and concept development workshops • Creative and technical workshops • School resource-based learning • Seminars • Peer group learning • Group critiques • Self-assessment

Study time
Type	Hours
Independent Study	242
Teaching	58
Total study time	300

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Ana Benaroya (2013). Illustration next : contemporary creative collaboration. New York: Thames & Hudson.

Michael Salu (2022). What Is Illustration?. Hachette.

Alan Male (2019). The Power and Influence of Illustration. London: Bloomsbury.

Assessment

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Portfolio

Assessment Type: Formative
Feedback: You will experience formative feedback during the module in different learning situations, for example: tutorials, crits and written feedback, contributing to the written summative feedback given at the end of the module.
Final Assessment: No
Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Portfolio	100%

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Portfolio	100%

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Portfolio	100%

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