Course Objectives

• Students will acquire basic methodological and practical competence in organisation and evaluation in the cultural sector.
• Students will learn how to prepare and execute a fieldwork project in an organisation/institution in the public or private sector.
• On the basis of practical experience and collected data students will learn how to analyse the processes they have participated in, managed, or observed and present this in a written report.

Course Description

The course includes the following components:

• Introduction to methods
• From idea to practice; project description
• Preparation for field work
• Eight weeks field work in spring semester
• From data to text; report writing
  

There is no possibility of field work where the student takes on an artistic role.

Learning Methods

Lectures, oral presentations, writing groups, individual (and possibly group-based) project description, field work for a period of 8 weeks, and an individual analytical report. Two obligatory workshops/seminars in the spring semester. Students will have to pay their own individual expenses in connection with the fieldwork.

Assessment Methods

Project description (2-3 pages) assessed on a pass/fail basis.

Analytical report (roughly 25 pages). The written report is given a graded mark.

The grade may be adjusted after an oral presentation (open). Students must fulfil all the course requirements before they may take the examination. Students must receive passing marks in all parts of the assessment in order to achieve a final passing mark for the course.

Lettered grades: A – highest passing grade; F – fail.

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