Learning outcome

After successfully completing the course, the candidate will have achieved the following learning outcomes:

Knowledge

The candidate:

• Has a broad understanding of art and insight into the importance of images
• Can demonstrate knowledge-based reflection concerning the teacher’s role in exploratory practices

Skills

The candidate:

• Can implement an image-based project
• Demonstrates visual, aesthetic and practical communicative competence
• Can use practical and theoretical / analytical work with images as a means of acquiring knowledge
• Demonstrates empirical reflection in relation to the teacher’s role in explorative practices

General competence

The candidate can:

• Demonstrate the ability to view his/her own cultural background in relation to images as part of a larger whole

Course Description

Exploratory Practice is a project method for working with images. Through broad use and construction of images, students will examine a chosen theme while developing their skills in creating images. They will develop skills in image handling and expand their art orientation. The individual student will strengthen his/her ability to work independently and gain awareness concerning the importance of images. The course consists of a joint and an individual part. It combines academic traditions and the field of ​​visual communication. Thematically important is the close, significant and real. In Exploratory Practice, theory is necessary in order to understand practice, and practical experience is necessary to illuminate theory.

The course will shed light on:

- Implementing an image-based project

- Carrying out a research and development project within the subject field

- Visualising thoughts, feelings and ideas

- Children and young people expressing themselves through images and their world understood through images

Students will also:

- Become aware of the interaction between groups and individuals in theme-based teaching

- Experience progress and development based on the interaction between action and reflection

- Work actively and creatively with the culture of images

- Study reality through drawing and learn to interpret reality through the pictorial representations of others

- Analyse and evaluate new and old images, their own work and that of others

Teaching and Learning Methods

The course comprises approx. 260 working hours; of these, 60 hours are teacher-led in workshops, lectures and supervision.

• Lectures: approx. 10 hours
• Supervised individual work approx. 50 hours
• Individual work with tasks approx. 200 hours

The alternation between theory and practice is essential. Working methods are exploratory, immersive, awareness-raising and personal. Students will select the mode of expression, genre, techniques and materials appropriate to their projects. The project is divided into joint and individual parts. However, individual work on images, under supervision constitutes the most important and demanding working method in the course. Assessment will be conducted in groups, and is an important part of the teaching.

Theoretical teaching is performed in parallel with practical work. Studies of the culture of images are important, and may include: contemporary, mass media and art-historical images.

Assessment Methods

Students will be given further information concerning the course requirements, which will include the following elements:

- Documented participation in joint activities

- Documented participation in theoretical instruction

- Use of a logbook / workbook

- Written report on the project

- Documentation of sketches and processes

- Finished works

- Examples of teacher-led exercises

- Documented supervision

A grade will be given on a scale from A to F, where A is the highest and E the lowest passing grade.

Please refer to Telemark University College’s examination regulations for further information.

The course description may be subject to minor changes.

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