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The course is connected to the following study programs

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the candidate will:

  • Be able to further develop their Ph.D. project in dialogue with current trends in interdisciplinary and context-oriented artistic research and development work.
  • Be able to explain the professional, historical, and cultural background for the choice of theoretical and possibly artistic approaches in their dissertation project.
  • Be able to critically reflect on the background for their choice of approaches in a broader societal context.
  • Be able to apply the conceptual framework of scientific theories in their dissertation project - in accordance with the project's academic grounding in music, theater, or visual arts - and confront or combine these with theories from other relevant fields.

Contents

The course shall, through the reading material and teaching, project a thorough insight into the theoretical academic discussions that are taking place within cross-aesthetic and context-oriented arts research and artistic development work. Within this, themes will be addressed which include recent aesthetic theory, arts sociology and cultural analysis, historical perspectives on art and culture, and trends in arts didactics. Furthermore, central terms will be addressed and discussed as they pertain to modern, cross-aesthetic research and artistic development work.

Teaching and learning methods

The course is obligatory. The teaching will be organised into four two-day gatherings (or equivalent). The gatherings will comprise a combination of lectures, seminar discussions, and presentation and discussion of papers and/or artistic development work. In order to support the candidates in the best possible way in their work with the thesis, the course will be tailored so that it has a high degree of flexibility, so that consideration can be taken with regard to changing projects’ particular foci, and possible cross-aesthetic and interdisciplinary points of contact between them

Examination requirements

Each candidate shall, consistent with the chosen form of the thesis, prepare a draft paper or a combination of such a draft and an artistic work to bring to one of the gatherings. In this work, links are to be made to relevant parts of the course reading list and the candidate’s own project. The draft paper is to be made ready before the gathering, and it will be presented there together with any artistic work.

Examinations

Individual paper with a scope of 10-15 pages of 2400 characters including spaces. If a combination of paper and artistic work is submitted, the paper is to be 5-10 pages of 2400 characters including spaces. The submitted paper or paper/artistic work is to be assessed by the individual with course responsibility and an external examiner. If the paper or paper/example is assessed as a fail, feedback will be given with advice for improvements and a new submissions deadline.

Assessed with the grade: pass/fail.

Student evaluation

The person responsible for the course, in consultation with the student representative, decides the method of evaluation and whether the courses will have a midterm- or end of term evaluation, see also the Quality System, section 4.1. Information about evaluation method for the course will be posted on Canvas.

Offered as a free-standing course

Yes.
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