ADS690 : Art and design seminar / College of Creative Arts

This course is designed to enhance student’s employability skills in order to prepare them for the industry. Students are prepared for career readiness with employability skills that are often intergraded between academic and technical skill to build and maintain a successful in industry. It will provide student with the guideline and time to create advanced digital portfolio as a preparation for their future career (employment purposes), where its concentrate on preparing the Artist/Designer’s Portfolio. They will learn to build their confidence by defining their self-image with the knowledge of personal grooming, standard social conduct and ethics. Hence, systematic efforts should be made to develop soft skills during the studies. Positive attitudes have to be developed in the students by properly guiding them and setting up examples of good attitudes by demonstrated behaviors. Some important soft skills / core competencies to be developed are: individual behavior, interpersonal behavior, intellectual behavior, motivation behavior and managerial behavior will be discussed to further exposed students with sufficient information beforehand. As the time move on through the final semester, the entire ongoing final degree project will be added to complete the Artist/Designer’s Portfolio. This course can guide the student in organizing a professional portfolio and using it as a tool in career development. The evaluation and demonstration of portfolio presentation methods are depending on the student's specific area of study.