Description of Subsidiary subject in Visual Art and Design (part 2) The framework provisions of the academic regulations

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1 Description of Subsidiary subject in Visual Art and (part 2) The framework provisions of the academic regulations The academic regulations for the Subsidiary Subject in Visual Art and (part 2) (2007) were prepared by the Board of Studies at the Institute of Aesthetic Subjects and approved by the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities on 26 September 2007 The academic regulations take effect on 1 September The Subsidiary subject in Visual Art and gives the right to use the title () The academic direction and primary subject areas of the programme The aim of this subsidiary subject is to qualify the student to carry out teaching and communication function in the area of visual art and design. Academic skills and qualifications A subsidiary subject in Visual Art and gives the student the following qualifications and competences: Qualifications Upon completion of the programme, the student will have knowledge, understanding and skills in the following areas: Visual art, design and visual culture in a general sense The central methodologies for visual art and design analysis The historical development of visual art and culture from Antiquity until today The emergence and development of the concept of design from approximately 1750 until today The institutions of visual art and the field of design, and the organisational forms of cultural life Strategies of subject-related didactics and communication as pertaining to visual art or design Processes of visual art creation or design acquired through practical experience Competences Through his/her academic course work, the student acquires the following professional and social competences: The ability to analyse and understand visual and design-related expressions in their cultural and historical context The ability to communicate issues from visual art or design orally, in writing or in any other manner, as well as subject-related didactic competences of a theoretical and practical nature The ability to develop and define an academic problem, select relevant methodologies for solving it, collect relevant information and carry out the solution on a scientific basis The ability to inter into individual as well as team and process-oriented contexts on a professional level The ability to contribute creatively, critically and communicatively in the many areas of the business world, the educational sector and the culture industry in which visual communication and design processes play an ever increasing part The characteristics of the qualifications and competences achieved depend on whether the student chooses the visual art or the design branch. Admission requirements and prerequisites The admission requirements for the subsidiary subject is a passed bachelor s degree with part 1 of the Subsidiary Subject in Visual Art and. The degree gives access to the following: 1. part of the Subsidiary Subject in Visual Art and gives access to the Master s degree in History of Art, line C. Transitional regulations Students under the 2006 regulations can be transferred to the 2007 regulations in accordance with the following guidelines: and Theme Study I, or and Theme Study in I are transferred to Visual Culture III and Subject I Theme Study II and, or Theme Study in II and are transferred to Subject II and

2 Structure of the programme Examination survey line A, a Visual Art line Module/annual examination Visual Culture Subject Subject type/assessment Subject I Subject II - External examination with appointed external co-examiner Title of examination/form of evaluation Term/ECTS Box diagram line A, a Visual Art line Subject II Subject I Regulations and guidelines for academic progress line A, a the Visual Art line The student cannot enrol for the disciplines of third and fourth terms of the subsidiary subject until he/she has passed the Bachelor s degree, since they are part of the Master s degree programme. Structure of the programme Examination survey line B, a Visual Art line Module/annual Subject type/assessment examination Visual Culture Subject Subject I Title of examination/form of evaluation Term/ECTS

3 Theory of Science and Didactics Subject II - External examination with appointed external co-examiner Theory of Science and Didactics - Third term Third term Box Diagram line B, a Visual Art line Third term Subject II Theory of Science and Didactics Subject I Regulations and guidelines for academic progress line B, a the Visual Art line The student cannot enrol for the disciplines of third and fourth terms of the subsidiary subject until he/she has passed the Bachelor s degree, since they are part of the Master s degree programme. Structure of the programme Examination survey line A, b the line Module/annual Subject type/assessment examination Visual Culture Subject Subject I Subject II - External examination with appointed external co-examiner Title of examination/form of evaluation Term/ECTS

4 Box diagram line A, b the line Subject II Subject I Regulations and guidelines for academic progress line A, b the line The student cannot enrol for the disciplines of third and fourth terms of the subsidiary subject until he/she has passed the Bachelor s degree, since they are part of the Master s degree programme. Structure of the programme Examination survey line B, b the line Module/annual Subject type/assessment examination Visual Culture Subject Theory of Science and Didactics Subject I Subject II - External examination with appointed external co-examiner Theory of Science and Didactics - Title of examination/form of evaluation Term/ECTS Third term Third term Box diagram line B, b the line Third term Subject II Theory of Science and Didactics

5 Subject I Regulations and guidelines for academic progress line B, b the line The student cannot enrol for the disciplines of third and fourth terms of the subsidiary subject until he/she has passed the Bachelor s degree, since they are part of the Master s degree programme. Individual disciplines and exams in the degree programme Visual Culture Upon completion of the programme, the student will have knowledge, understanding and skills in the following areas: Description, analysis and assessment of process and results in the subject area of History of Art and through the application of the terminology and methodologies of the subject An understanding for how a practical/creative work process may be included as an appropriate element in the work with Visual Art and Knowledge of the design process and create innovation Communication of issues, analyses and results in written, oral and visualised forms, including IKT Through his/her academic course work, the student acquires the following professional and social competences: The ability to identify, analyse and assess visual and design issues in general The ability to define and delimit concrete issues from a large material The ability to formulate an issue, and based on this to plan and conduct small and large projects individually and in groups The ability to determinedly search for and acquire new relevant knowledge for the solution of academic issues The module consists of the following exams: 1. Objective: In the evaluation special emphasis is placed on the extent to which the student Demonstrates the ability to individually and in collaboration with others to identify and develop an analytical issue Has acquired skills in academic description and analysis with the inclusion of significant methods of analysis or art theories pertaining to the subject field Is able to integrate analytical insights acquired during practical exercises with theoretical reflections Demonstrates the ability to critically reflection on the position and functions of the subject field within visual culture Demonstrates ability for academic didactical reflection on the subject matter Method of teaching: Lectures, exercises and supervised group projects Language of instruction: Danish Course description: In, the students work in group projects with the compilation and development of an analytical issue from art, art theory or visual culture. The analytical issue is unfolded and qualified during a practical exercise resulting in a product, which together with the synopsis of the group forms the basis for the exam. The research, options, opting out and results are continuously documented in a portfolio. EVALUATION

6 1) Examinees Product Product framework Individual Oral Topic of own choice Duration Preparation Materials permitted 30 minutes 0 Basis for evaluation Presentation Note Details: In order to sit the exam, the student is required to regularly, actively and satisfactorily attend teaching including to take part in a group project with the compilation of a product and synopsis (not exceeding 5 pages per project) and a portfolio. The exam is based on the student s project with accompanying product and synopsis to be submitted on a date before the exam set by the board of studies. At the exam, the student individually compiles and presents an aspect of or an issue from the general thematics of the project, which during the exam is extended in a discussion with the examiner(s) where elements from the student s portfolio is included Subject Studies The student acquires qualifications in the form of knowledge, understanding and skills in the following areas: Insight into selected, delimited issues or themes of art, design or aesthetics, e.g. a defined epoch or motive group, a certain direction of art or design, a specific medium, a delimited oeuvre or an issue of a particular art or design theory Insight into the theories and specialist literature relevant to the subject Academic didactical reflection on the communication potential of the subject Through his/her academic course work, the student acquires the following academic and social competences: The ability to develop a precise and focused issue within a delimited material The ability to select relevant scholarly methodologies for the solution of the problems raised The ability to find relevant information on the raised issue The ability to communicate the raised issue in speech and in writing The module consists of the following exams: 1. Subject I Objective: In the evaluation special emphasis is placed on the extent to which the student Demonstrates skills in independently developing and expanding an issue within a delimited area from the subject field of art or design Demonstrates the ability to select theories and methodologies relevant to the issue in question and apply them in an analytically productive manner Demonstrates the ability of critical insight and immersion into a delimited area of the subject field of art or design Demonstrates the ability for academic didactical reflection on the subject to be processed Method of teaching: Lectures, discussions, reading of texts. Language of instruction: Danish Course description: Subject is an expansion of the teaching from the disciplines Visual Culture and Period Studies/ History. An elective study is understood to be an examination of a specifically defined issue or a specifically defined area. Each term, the study of one or more subject studies is offered.

7 Students from the design line of the subsidiary subject must choose subjects relating to subject matters and issues relevant to design. Students from the visual art line of the subsidiary subject must choose subjects relating to subject matters and issues relevant to visual art, and at least one of the subject studies must concern the period after EVALUATION 1) Examinees Product Product framework Individual Written Topic of own choice Duration Preparation Materials permitted Note Max. 15 pages. The exam is an individual written assignment on a chosen topic. The assignment must contain didactical consideration corresponding to no more than 5 pages. Basis for evaluation Submission Subject II Objective: In the evaluation special emphasis is placed on the extent to which the student Demonstrates skills in independently developing and expanding an issue within a delimited area from the subject field of art or design Demonstrates the ability to select theories and methodologies relevant to the issue in question and apply them in an analytically productive manner Demonstrates the ability of critical insight and immersion into a delimited area of the subject field of art or design Demonstrates the ability for academic didactical reflection on the subject to be processed Method of teaching: Lectures, discussions, reading of texts. Language of instruction: Danish Course description: Subject is an expansion of the teaching from the disciplines Visual Culture and Period Studies/ History. An elective study is understood to be an examination of a specifically defined issue or a specifically defined area. Each term, the study of one or more subject studies is offered. Students from the design line of the subsidiary subject must choose subjects relating to subject matters and issues relevant to design. Students from the visual art line of the subsidiary subject must choose subjects relating to subject matters and issues relevant to visual art, and at least one of the subject studies must concern the period after EVALUATION 1) Examinees Product Product framework Individual Written Topic of own choice Duration Preparation Materials permitted Basis for evaluation Submission

8 Note Max. 15 pages. The exam is an individual written assignment on a chosen topic. The assignment must contain didactical consideration corresponding to no more than 5 pages Upon completion of the programme, the student will have knowledge, understanding and skills in the following areas: Insight into principles and mechanisms from those parts of the art institution that are outwith the university (museums, galleries, art-related teaching at upper secondary schools etc.), including the historic development of these institutions Understanding of various communication principles Understanding how museological, curative and communication practices interact with and influence artistic and aesthetical signification The ability to distinguish between museological and communicative principles in that on the one hand they are academic subject fields and on the other they are practical applicable tools Through his/her academic course work, the student acquires the following professional and social competences: The ability to communicate a material based on scholarly analysis to various groups in various contexts The ability to analyse how didactics, institution practice and artistic material are mutually influential The ability to analyse the underlying principles and current practice of institutions and offset these against each other The module consists of the following exams: 1. Objective: In the evaluation special emphasis is placed on the extent to which the student is confident about the most significant pedagogical learning theories can reflect on these in relation to a concrete practice of communication, e.g. the teaching at upper secondary school in the subjects Visual Art and can apply this knowledge to the concrete communication of a subject matter in visual art or design Method of teaching: Lectures, exercises, projects Language of instruction: Danish Course description: The discipline works with different forms of communication based on theoretically supported exercises in relation the subject matter of visual art and design. Pedagogical learning theories are introduced as is the formal legal foundation for teaching in different institutions of the educational system, e.g. teaching Visual Art and at upper secondary schools. Moreover the museological and curative aspects of visual art and design are introduced in this discipline, the particular institutions of these two fields and the historical progress of these institutions as scholarly subjects. The student compiles a concrete teaching or communication project based on the specialist knowledge he/she has acquired during previous terms. EVALUATION 1) Examinees Product Product framework Duration Preparation Materials permitted Basis for evaluation

9 Individual Combined written and oral Topic of own choice 0 30 minutes Defence Note Individual written report., not exceeding 8 pages combined with an oral exam, duration 30 minutes including evaluation. Examination is of the theoretic communication and learning material and in a concrete teaching or communication project in that the exam is based on a report compiled by the examinee, which is to be submitted on a date before the exam determined by the Board of Studies. Students from the design line of the subsidiary subject must choose subjects relating to subject matters and issues relevant to design. Students from the visual art line of the subsidiary subject must choose subjects relating to subject matters and issues relevant to visual art Theory of Science and Didactics The student acquires qualifications in the form of knowledge, understanding and skills in the following areas: - Knowledge of joint-humanistic academic theoretical issues. - Knowledge of the university as an institution including the historical and current status of the Humanities as an institution of learning, science and culture with connections to the social and natural sciences - Insight into academic positions and issues playing a central role in the debate on the relationship between humanities, sciences, and social sciences. - Insight into ethical, research ethical and political aspects of science. - General knowledge of didactics and learning theory, and the ability to relate these areas to the subsidiary subject. - Insight into the didactics of the subsidiary subject and to the planning of education from the knowledge of basic learning theory Through his/her academic course work, the student acquires the following professional and social competences: - the ability to relate critically and constructively to scholarly and didactical issues and to be able to identify the theoretical and methodological criteria of those. - the ability to assess and comment on the methodologies and traditions of the humanities. - the ability to reflect on the relevance and functions of modern society to the humanities. - the ability to formulate and work independently with scholarly relevant issues. The module consists of the following exams: 1. Theory of Science and Didactics Objective: In evaluating the student's performance, special emphasis is placed on the student satisfying the following requirements: - demonstrates insight into and skills in analysing and discussing central scientifically theoretical and didactical issues in relation to the subsidiary subject. - demonstrates problem and methodology consciousness and understanding in his/her presentation and discussion. - reflects independently, critically and methodologically. Method of teaching: Teaching consists in part of teacher s presentations on texts, issues and subject areas and in part of the processing of cases and examples, which the students work with individually and in groups based on their academic starting point. Language of instruction: Danish

10 Course description: The course gives an introduction to scientifically theoretical issues in the meeting between science, social sciences and humanities as well as to basic concepts within didactics and general learning theory with particular emphasis on their significance in concrete academic contexts. EVALUATION 1) Examinees Product Product framework Duration Preparation Materials permitted Basis for evaluation Individual Oral Set question 40 minutes 0 40 minutes Usual Presentation Note The student draws a subject in scientific theory and one in didactics from a general list published 30 days before the exam. The subjects are related to the subsidiary subject and the presentation may integrate two parts