Summative Evaluation

End of Module Student Evaluation

BA (Hons) Illustration

Module Code: OUIL501 Context of Practice

Name: Molly Halson

Student ID: mh259901

Learning Outcome	Evidenced where? Blog, Visual Journal, Roughs, Final Illustrations, Storyboards, Development Sheets etc.  (No more than 75 words)	Your grade Using words: > poor, satisfactory, good, very good, excellent
5A1 Demonstrate a critical understanding of the aesthetic, cultural, historical, technological, social, political or other contexts relevant to individual subject disciplines. (Knowledge and understanding) (Research / critical awareness)	Blog, essay	Excellent
5A2 Demonstrate an awareness of the relationship between the theoretical and practical contexts of their own creative concerns. (Knowledge and understanding) (problem analysis/definition)	Blog, essay	Excellent
5B1 Evidence the ability to use logic, reasoning and critical judgement to analyse ideas from a range of primary and secondary sources. (Cognitive skills) (Critical awareness)	Essay	Excellent
5C1 Evidence the capacity for undertaking practical and theoretical research that demonstrates an informed application of critical, effective and testable processes. (Practical and professional skills) (research)	Blog, essay	Excellent
5D1 Organise and carry out self-directed projects and communicate outcomes through written and other appropriate forms. (Key transferable skills) (professionalism / technical competence / visual quality)	Visual Journal	Satisfactory

Summative Evaluation

Although CoP is oddly one of my favourite modules, as I love writing, I struggled a lot with it this year. I had a lot of personal problems which affected my motivation. Despite my struggles, I still managed to get a whole 3000 words done in time, and words that I was happy with. I changed my focus of research quite a bit over the year, going from just looking at the presentation of female characters to investigating how these tropes actually affect women (and men) in real life. I initially wanted to focus on comics, as that’s primarily where I see my practice going, but decided along the way that I had more research and examples in film, and had too much research to fit everything in 3000 words, so I hope to move the focus to include comics in CoP3. Similarly, I wanted to make a comic in response to my research, but leaving a lot of the module until last minute, this was impossible. I always knew vaguely that I wanted to illustrate girls and women in their own terms. By which I mean, not written by or for men. A lot of the research I did showed that the media is patriarchal, so a lot of the women in fiction are a male fantasy. I want to contribute more material that girls can actually relate to, doing real things and looking like normal women, not supermodels. Hopefully next year I can manage my time better and expand on this, perhaps in comic form. I always feel like I learn a lot from this module, and I do really enjoy it once I actually motivate myself to do it. I love writing and challenging myself to investigate something I care about. I definitely should focus more on the visual aspect of the module, but a lot of what put me off it this year was the format of the journal. I felt that giving us a specific size and type of sketchbook was very limiting, especially considering all the freedom we had last year. I felt encouraged to express myself last year, but this year definitely felt more constrictive. I hope next year we’re able to work in ways that we find more comfortable. As always, I struggled with blogging. I find it distracting to blog alongside my work, and do the study tasks when I know I’ll demonstrate most of these things within my essay. I know a lot of people struggle with writing and hate this module, but I really love it, and I find the tasks and blogging really tedious, and just want to get on with it. As I know we don’t have as much time on CoP next year, I hope I’ll organize my time better, and make myself do some work over summer. I think because I’ve done a lot of research already that I didn’t use this year, and because I’m focusing on a similar area, I should be able to make a start on my essay over summer, and hopefully have most of it finished before we come back in September!