Introduction

The study programme offers continuing education in art and crafts with an emphasis on extensive use of digital tools such as photography, video, smart board and drawing board and free downloadable applications such as image processing, video editing, blog and sketchup. The content and structure reflects the target group’s age, development and characteristics. The study programme emphasizes versatile creative work using various materials and techniques in a learning environment that stimulates impressions, experiences and expression within the framework of quality and sustainable development. Impressions and knowledge of national and international cultural heritages in terms of art and forms of expression from various eras will be included as part of the study programme. Art and crafts in a multicultural society that includes the Sami heritage should be made apparent. All-round professional use of basic skills (cf. LK06) will be emphasized.

Target Group and Admission Requirements

Admission requirements: Teaching qualifications.

Target group: Teachers who wish to teach year levels 1-10 (primarily year levels 5-10).

Aim of the Programme

The study programme aims to develop the student’s:

• Ability to express themselves in creative work using various materials and techniques for problem-solving- creative- and analytical activities
• Ability to visualize, document and present all the parts of a creative process and in relation to the assessment of their own and others’ creative work in arts and crafts
• All-round didactic skills in the field of practice as an important arena and basis for reflection, and basic competence related to the development of arts and crafts

Learning outcome

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

Knowledge

The candidate has knowledge of:

• The main trends in the visual arts and sculpture, crafts, design and architecture
• The main features of the discipline’s history and development
• The key theories relating to the development of artistic expression in children and adolescents, and of play and creative activities as aesthetic experience and as forms of expression

Skills

The candidate can:

• Develop an idea into a finished design through the use of materials, tools and techniques; show manual dexterity, document and evaluate their own creative process; and organize various types of exhibitions and presentations
• Communicate and analyse art and design culture in varied ways and relate various art and cultural expressions to their own and pupils’ creative work
• Use digital tools in a varied way in working with the subject

General competence

The candidate can:

• Use cultural differences in the pupil group as a resource in arts and crafts teaching
• Exploit the subject’s opportunities to promote reuse and sustainable development
• Use arts and crafts in interdisciplinary theme and project work and emphasise the aesthetic dimension in education in collaboration with other subjects

Curriculum and structure

Course K&H 501: Images, Graphic Design and Visual Communication (15 ECTS credits).

Part 1: Images and art orientation using selected techniques

Part 2: Graphic design and visual communication

Course K&H 502: Design, Architecture, Sculpture, the Enviroment and Entrepreneurship (15 ECTS credits).

Part 1: Sculpture, nature and the environment

Part 2: Design and architecture

Entrepreneurship and innovation will be also be focused on in the study programme.

Basic skills and ICT

Versatile and subject-related use of basic skills – such as being able to express themselves orally and in writing, reading, use of numeracy and digital tools – will be included as methods in production, documentation and reflection in the study programme. Students will be able to use digital imaging applications and other software that can be downloaded free from the Web to use in their creative activities. Using digital presentation programs will be included as tools in reflection notes and presentation of creative processes from idea to finished product.

Art and crafts as a discipline that applies methods will be examined.

Adapted learning

Both individual and group assignments will be based on the individual student’s capabilities with regard to participating in creative work.

The student contributes with respect to setting requirements and should under their own initiative and through practical work with tools and materials achieve visible concrete results.

Change competency

Development work in relation to their workplace will be included in the study programme, for example in relation to the school’s exhibition environment, organization of workshops, etc.

Internationalization

The study programme may include a voluntary study trip abroad.

Teaching and Learning Methods

Online part-time study programme with workshops. Two courses of 15 ECTS credits each. Each course has a duration of one semester.

Teaching and mentoring forms - both in groups and individually - in real time via the college’s learning platform Omnijoin. In addition, Fronter is used as an electronic classroom. The workshop meetings will prioritize activities in the workshop, including training in the use of tools and machines as well as group projects that focus on creative processes. Students will also receive a thorough introduction to the electronic learning platforms.

The students work mainly independently and in groups with online guidance by a teacher.

The study programme is characterized by alternation between practical creative work, theory and didactic reflection.

Study trips may be carried out during the workshop meetings.

Theory and Practical Training

Professional development work in their own school is a mandatory part of the study programme for students who are enrolled on a teacher education study programme.

All parts of the study programme emphasise the relationship between creative work, theoretical orientation and didactic reflection.

The student’s own teaching practice will be used as an arena for experimentation and reflection.

Assessment Methods

Coursework:

4-5 submissions and two mandatory counselling sessions per course (15 ECTS).

A minimum of 80% attendance is required in order that the student will be permitted to take the examination.

Students are responsible for keeping themselves informed about assignments, deadlines, study programme requirements, etc.

Final assessment

All the stipulated coursework requirements must be presented and approved by the teacher before the final evaluation at the end of each semester.

Students will submit their portfolio consisting of selected parts of previously submitted assignments in addition to a new task.

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

Please refer to Telemark University College Examination Regulations.

Suitability

This study programme does not include suitability assessment.

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