Site & Context

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 with a focus on the relationship between site, context, and artistic expression.

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 site-based and site-sensitive approaches within contemporary art

Skills

  • Explore approaches in relation to the creation of site-based works
  • Enhance and broaden your own skills 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

Level of Study

Bachelor.

Semester of Instruction

Autumn

Place of Instruction

University of Bergen
Required Previous Knowledge
Recommended Previous Knowledge
Access to the Course
Dette emnet har krav til studierett i Bachelorprogrammet i kunst
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.

Compulsory Assignments and Attendance
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