We will have 12 face to face sessions of 4 hours each. These sessions alter between lectures, student presentations, group work, and critical discussions. Students present selected texts and examples, from which key aesthetic perspectives are identified and discussed. Sometimes the students will work in groups and sometimes individually. We will also engage on the exploratory aesthetic design, peer critique and supervision.

The last two weeks of the semester are left without meetings so that the students can work on their final essays.

This course is worth 7.5 ECTS, which is a quarter of the study time. The expected study time is therefore 10 hours a week, four hour scheduled teaching activities plus six hours preparation, reading and writing. 

During this course students will be required to hand in mandatory assignments (e.g. attendance, papers, exercises, presentations, productions), that need to be completed/approved before being eligible to register for the examination and e.g. being allowed to submit written work for examination. Failure to hand in these mandatory assignments on time will mean that the registration for examination is annulled.

These mandatory assignments are:

: : Each student has to complete at least 8 of the 12 compulsory weekly exercises.

: : Each student has to prepare and/or present a theoretical text together with others in a group. A schedule and a format for these presentations will be given at the beginning of the course.

: : Each student is engaged in assignment peer-review. A schedule for peer-reviewing will be published at the beginning of the course.

Submission/completion of mandatory activities before Friday 30 November 2012 at 15:00.

Exam form:

External examiner, 7-point marking scale, C1: Written work without oral exam.

This course has a written individual exam 10 to 13 pages long. Each student will write an academic essay about a topic of relevance to the course´s curriculum that will be agreed in advance with the course responsible. The specific requirements as to the form of this essay (forms of argumentation, style, referencing style, formatting, etc.) will be published in the course´s website as well as explained extensively in the classroom around the middle of the course period.