3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1021545CNR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (C) Bachelor - specialised level.
Aims
With this course we want to improve the quality of the bachelor papers and train the students in academic competences, including theory, formulating research questions and discussing results
This will be done via 5 assignments and modules:
Assignment 1 is linked to a number of workshops on paradigms. A general introduction to the paradigms is followed by a class discussion of several articles in seminar form. This results in the first assignment. Its goal is to search between 10 and 15 sources from at least 3 following paradigms, either on the topic of the research of the bachelor paper or on a broader theme: cultural-historical / descriptive studies, processual / modernist / structuralist studies, postprocessual / postmodernist / contextual studies, studies that are in line with the Unesco indicators on sustainable development (see also complex system theory) within archeology; formalist / iconographic / iconological studies, radical art science (The New Art History), hermeneutical / semiotic / poststructuralist studies, sociological / anthropological studies, postcolonial and global art history within art sciences. These sources should be discussed in a 1,500-word paper.
Assignment 2 relates to making a commented literature-list and report on what literature and which authors are relevant for your bachelor paper research topic. The report of the discussion is maximum 1500 words long.
Assignement 3: to formulate and explain your research question, embedded in the literature you read. What is relevant and what not and why? Write this out in a report of maximum 1.500 words.
Assignement 4: oral presentation and discssion before the class in december, max 7 minutes.
Assignement 5: second oral presentation and discssion before the class in march or April, max 10 minutes.
Theme and supervisor for the bachelor paper are chosen by the 30th of Oktober, so assignements 1, 2, 3 and 4 are foreseen for first semester and 5 for second semester.
Competences:
This course supports and deepens your research approach for your bachelorppaer.
- texts provided by the lecturer and notes to be taken by the student
- documents, links and discussion forums on the interactive learning platform Canvas
The student has knowledge of the important theoretical and philosophical paradigma's in Art studies and archaeology, knows the authors that represent these and understands their significance.
The student can read and understand theoretical papers and position them in the framework of the known paradigma's.
The student can apply the general sense and understanding of the paradigma's in paper and research.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
LEC Presentation determines 45% of the final mark.
SELF Paper determines 55% of the final mark.
Within the LEC Presentation category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:
The essays and presentations make out 100% of the end result:
The first one stands for 25% of the results, the second, third and fourth one stands for 15% and the last one, the final presentation for 30% of the results.
Re-examination: the student that failed on this course (less than 10 on 20), writes for the re-examination a new essay in which all the assignments are evaluated with a focus on research-questions, theories, methods, approaches, sources, research-problems and results of yr bachelorpaper. This essay is between 2000 and 3000 words.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Art Studies and Archaeology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Bridging Programme Master of Arts in Art Studies and Archaeology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)