The Shape of Things
Postgraduate course
- ECTS credits
- 10
- Teaching semesters Autumn
- Course code
- PRO329
- Number of semesters
- 1
- Teaching language
- English and Norwegian
- Resources
- Schedule
Course description
Supplementary semester information
Objectives and Content
This is a project-based module exploring the crystallization of ideas, concepts, beliefs, movements, and histories into shape, form, and representation.
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 practices, discourses, and references
- Identify key methodologies in the translation of abstract ideas into visual forms
Skills
- Explore approaches in relation to the creation of site-based works
- Identify, seek out, and apply relevant skills to a self-initiated project
General Competence
- Identify your own learning needs in relation to the subject area(s)
- Apply new knowledge and skills within your artistic practice
- Resolve, realize, and present new work
Semester of Instruction
Place of Instruction
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