Moods

Undergraduate course

Course description

Supplementary semester information

Supplementary semester information for autumn 2026 will be published as soon as poosible.

Objectives and Content

This is a project-based module exploring artistic expression, affect, and/or gesture, with a specific focus on how the emotional, atmospheric, and irrational are constructed and presented within contemporary art.

PRO modules are designed to enrich your artist development (as explored in the ART modules) through activating skills, connecting communities of practice, and investigating disciplinary territories. PRO modules allow you to focus on a specific project critically connected to your own practice within a context established by the module leader(s).

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

  • Develop awareness of relevant references and practices

Skills

  • Explore approaches in the creation of affect, mood, tone, and atmosphere
  • Enhance and broaden your own methods and processes through the creation of a self-initiated project

General Competence

  • Identify your own learning needs in relation to the subject area(s)
  • Develop and present new work.

Semester of Instruction

Autumn

Place of Instruction

University of Bergen
Access to the Course
This module requires admission to the Bachelor's Programme in Fine Art
Teaching and learning methods

Methods may include:

  • Project development
  • Individual research
  • Group work
  • Lectures
  • Presentations
  • Group discussions
  • Tutorials
  • Assigned readings
  • Writing exercises
  • Workshop-based instruction

See info text above for semester-specific details.

Forms of Assessment

Submission of artwork(s), either physical or digital, as assigned by the module leader.

Assessment criteria:

Research

Subject knowledge

Experimentation

Realization

Collaborative and independent work

Grading Scale
Pass / Fail.
Assessment Semester
Autumn.
Course Evaluation
The module is evaluated every third year in accordance with UiB's Quality System