Learning outcome

After successfully completing the course, the candidate will have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence.

Knowledge

The candidate has knowledge of:

• Traditional crafts and cultural history related to selected outdoor equipment
• Natural resources that are suitable for use as materials
• The manufacture of various materials, and their features and characteristics
• The various values of self-made outdoor equipment, and the practical processes of the manufacture of a product
• Guidance and instruction of craft activities outdoors

Skills

The candidate can:

• Use and maintain simple hand tools in a safe and correct manner
• Work with various techniques and materials in wood and textiles
• Analyse a product's needs and function, choose appropriate materials and design the product accordingly
• Recognize and collect their own natural materials
• Work independently with a product, from conceptual design and planning phase to the manufacture of the finished, functional product with its own personal expression
• Repair and maintain their own equipment
• Facilitate and implement a crafts activity outdoors for a specific target group

General competence

The candidate can:

• Develop their own practical and creative skills when working outdoors in nature and using natural materials
• View and analyse their own activities in a larger environmental perspective, and make conscious choices in equipment use and equipment crafting
• Foster the joy of being creative and craft activities with a group outdoors in nature, and put the activity into a cultural-historical context.

Course Description

• Traditional crafts and cultural history
• Material choice, wood and textiles
• Collecting natural materials
• Values and environmental perspectives
• Personal development and closeness to nature
• Guidance and instruction
• Use of hand tools
• Design
• Repair and maintenance
• Facilitation of craft activities outdoors

Teaching and Learning Methods

• 3 lectures
• 9 days with supervisor divided into periods in the workshop or outdoors
• 3-day group assignment
• Individual work in the workshop
• Tuition, reading of curriculum literature by students, and training skills that will be carried out with a view to achieving the learning outcomes described above. All practical teaching is obligatory.

Assessment Methods

100% compulsory participation in practical activities is required. The practical assignment counts for 60% of the course grade, and the written assignment counts for 40% of the course grade. The course grade is awarded on a descending scale using alphabetic grades from A to E for passes and F for fail.

Assessment methods are chosen to assess the candidate's knowledge, skills and competence in relation to communicating the subject; please refer to the learning outcomes above.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean