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Full Module Title:
PROJECT PLANNING
Short Module Title: PROJECT PLANNING
Module Code: 2DPI601 Module Level: 6
Academic credit weighting: 15 credits. Length: 1 semester
School:
Media, Art and Design.
Department:
Photographic and Digital Media
Host Course:
BSc(Hons) Photographic Science
Module Leader:
Paresh Parma
Host Course:
BSc(Hons) Photography and Digital Imaging
Status:
Core.
Pre-requisites:
None.
Co-requisites:
None.
Assessment:
15% initial project presentation document,
25% Final presentation to peers and staff,
60% the Project plan document.
Summary of Module content:
Planning modalities. Search facilities and methods. Project Planning. Project Costing. Report Writing.
Module Aims:
• To establish practices necessary for planning research projects.
• To provide guidance in the selection and planning of a major third year Project.
• To yield a fully planned and costed proposal for the third year Project to meet an identified
need.
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the module the successful student will be able to:
1. Undertake an appropriate literature search to identify and closely define a problem to be
addressed in a project.
2. Cost a project.
3. Plan a project in terms of the objectives and required tasks so as to meet intermediate and
final deadlines.
4. Develop a strategy for gathering and responding to peer and professional critiques of a
project and its proposal.
5. Research and explore technologies, techniques and theories relevant to the development of a
Project.
Indicative syllabus content:
Planning modalities. Review of data search facilities and methods.
Structure of Project planning: Data gathering, identification of a problem to be addressed, review of
methodologies. Identification of job streams and their objectives and required tasks within the overall
project. Time management of job streams, the use of Gant charts and identification of the critical
path.
The production of Project reports. Self-directed activities.
Identification of an area of interest and worthy of study.
Data search and identification of a problem.
Consultation with potential supervisors leading to identification of the definitive supervisor.
Assembling an initial Project proposal for assessment.
Planning the overall conduct of the Project in terms of time and required resources, including the cost
of the proposed work and the availability of external assistance or sponsorship.
Assembly of the fully documented plan for assessment, and a short seminar presentation, also to be
assessed.
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