| Unit name | In the Wild |
|---|---|
| Unit code | INOVM0001 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Dr. Jenkins |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you may not take alongside this one |
None |
| School/department | Centre for Innovation |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Why is this unit important?
In your final year as an Innovation students, you will deepen and mature your learning through engagement in three distinct areas:
1.‘Me in the Wild’ - students developing their own experience, values, unique positioning, and mission.
2.‘Going into the Wild’ - students deepening and maturing their innovation practice through application, research, and critical reflection.
3.‘Stories of the Wild’ - students building a portfolio of work to tell a story that showcases the contribution they could make to their chosen community of practice.
How does this unit fit into your programme of study?
This unit enables you to develop your research planning capabilities, reflective skills and the ability to curate and communicate stories related to your own emergent practices.
An overview of content
You will build on your knowledge developed in previous years and will consider your future career path and required competencies. You will also identify areas of innovation practice that align with your interests. You will appraise and select research methods and approaches which are relevant to your field of interest, as you design and propose potential innovation projects. In the process, you will critically reflect on their interests, expertise, and values to help inform your future career(s).
How will students, personally, be different as a result of the unit?
Following this unit, you will have gained confidence and competence planning a substantive innovative project and will have achieved increased clarity of how their skills, experience, values, interests, and ambitions might help determine your next steps.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
1. Devise a feasible, ethically robust research approach for developing novel insights about a chosen area of innovation.
2. Appraise and critically assess competencies and capabilities required for innovation and change.
3. Demonstrate to a professional standard how their acquired knowledge and understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship will support post-graduation futures and goals.
Students will learn through interactive lectures, workshops and engaged learning. This unit will have some significant student-led aspects, as well as a focus on reflection: students will explore their chosen topic in the context of their own personal career path. Students will be given tools, methodologies, mentoring and support to discover and develop their skills ‘in the wild’.
Tasks which count towards your unit mark (summative):
Concept Pitch (individual assessment), 1500 words or equivalent (30%) [ILOs 1 and 2]
A multimedia submission outlining a problem space or opportunity and justification for why it should form the focus of a research project.
Research Proposal (individual or group), 4000 words (70%) [ILOs 1, 2 and 3]
A Research Proposal detailing how students will ethically conduct robust research in response to an identified problem space or innovation opportunity.
When assessment does not go to plan
When required by the Board of Examiners, you will normally complete reassessments in the same formats as those outlined above. However, the Board reserves the right to modify the form or number of reassessments required. Details of reassessments are normally confirmed by the School shortly after the notification of your results at the end of the academic year.
If this unit has a Resource List, you will normally find a link to it in the Blackboard area for the unit. Sometimes there will be a separate link for each weekly topic.
If you are unable to access a list through Blackboard, you can also find it via the Resource Lists homepage. Search for the list by the unit name or code (e.g. INOVM0001).
How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the University Workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The assessment methods listed in this unit specification are designed to enable students to demonstrate the named learning outcomes (LOs). Where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, schools will make reasonable adjustments to support a student to demonstrate the LO by an alternative method or with additional resources.
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. For appropriate assessments, if you have self-certificated your absence, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (for assessments at the end of TB1 and TB2 this is usually in the next re-assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any exceptional circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
