Course responsible / Kursansvarig: Åsa Sonjasdotter

Complete syllabus description is to be found here: https://kursplaner.gu.se/pdf/kurs/en/VSIND1Links to an external site.

Basic syllabus outline:

This summer the Individual Project Work 1, will explore socially engaged arts practice with specific focus on questions of place and communities. The course will support students to develop projects (either as individuals or in partnership with other students enrolled on the course). Given the circumstances of COVID-19 students will be encouraged to critically respond to the challenges and opportunities of arts in the public realm at a time of social distancing. 

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student is expected to be able to:

Knowledge and understanding:

- account for, and discuss chosen techniques, methods and materials in one's own work related to the general theme of the course

Competence and skills

- present a written project plan that contextualises one's own work in relation to relevant problems in the theme of the course

- independently carry out an artistic project in relation to the theme of the course

Judgement and approach

- collect and analyze and interpret relevant information for the implementation of a project reflecting on the aesthetic, ethical and social aspects of the project

- reflect on one's own process and its development

Course content

- The course is organised around a theme with the purpose to practice the students in relating to an artistic issue in one's own and other's works. The main components of course consist partly of working with an own, artistic project that relates to the theme of course and partly of critical discussions of own and other's works.

- The course is carried out in cooperation between the Valand Academy's subject areas and the students work on the basis of a joint theme.

- This course may include: seminars presentations lectures workshops own work.

Form of teaching

- Intended learning outcomes is assessed through presentation and presentation of the own artistic work, and participation in the assessing occasions of course.

- The student is examined at the end of the course. Examination will be based on an overall assessment of the student’s achievements during the course. Students who work together are assessed individually.

- Language of instruction: Swedish and English

 Schedule Summer 2021: