Course detail

Theses Seminar 1

FaVU-2DIPLS1Acad. year: 2024/2025

The Thesis Seminar becomes the second basic creative subject in the study programme in the summer semester of the first year of the follow-up Master's programme, alongside the Master's Studio. This course provides students with support and guidance in the preparatory phase of the realization of the Diploma Project. Based on an individual master's project and dialogue with the student, the supervisor formulates an assignment that guides the next steps, including topic, technique, anticipated installation and timeline. The entire course of the birth of the Diploma Project, from the initial collection of possible variations of thematic focus and formal solutions, through the refinement of the concept to the start of the actual implementation, is systematically verified through intensive consultations.  

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Entry knowledge

None.  

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Credit is awarded on the basis of completing at least 10 consultations of the Diploma Project with its supervisor.  
Consultations in the studio at FaVU, or elsewhere based on an individual agreement between the student and the teacher. Consultations take place once a week, the student must attend at least 75 % of the total of 13 consultations per semester. If the number of face-to-face consultations is not sufficient, it is possible to replace them with a distance form of communication after agreement with the teacher.  

Aims

The aim of the course is to define the concept and prepare the assignment of the Master’s Diploma Project.  
Students have a defined assignment and have successfully completed the preparatory phase of the Diploma Project, including the definition of the concept, technique and scope.  

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BAILEY, S. Academic writing: a handbook for international students. London, New York: Routledge, 2015. 978-1-138-77849-8.
Hal FOSTER – Rosalind KRAUSSOVÁ – Yve-Alain BOIS – Benjamin H. D. BUCHLOH, Umění po roce 1900. Modernismus, antimodernismus, postmodernismus, Praha: Slovart 2007
Helena BENDOVÁ – Matěj STRNAD (eds.), Společenské vědy a audiovize, Praha: NAMU 2014.
Patricia LEAVY (ed.), Handbook of Arts-Based Research, New York: Guilford Press 2019

Recommended reading

Aleš RICHTER, Co je dobré vědět o psaní diplomové či disertační práce, Liberec 2008
Carola DERTNIG – Felicitas THUN-HOHENSTEIN (eds.), Performing the Sentence. Research and Teaching in Performative Fine Arts, Berlín: Sternberg 2014
Carola DERTNIG et al., Troubling Research. Performing Knowledge in the Arts, Berlín: Sternberg 2014
Florian MALZACHER – Pelin TAN – Ahmet Ögüt (eds.), The Silent University. Towards a Transversal Pedagogy, Berlín: Sternberg 2016
Haraway, Donna. 1988. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” Feminist Studies 14(3): 575–599.
Institut úzkosti. 2021. Kvíření jazyka českého: O užívání genderově inkluzivního jazyka v institucích a organizacích. http://www.institutuzkosti.cz/events/kvireni-jazyka-ceskeho-videozaznam-online-diskuse?src=cz
James ELKINS (ed.), Artists with PhDs. On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art, Washington, DC: New Academia 2014
Jan SVENUNGSSON, Umelec a písanie, Bratislava: Slovart – VŠVU 2013
Jeroen LUTTERS – Mike BAL (eds.), Visual Thinking with Mieke Bal, Amsterdam: Valiz 2018
Julian KLEIN, What Is Artistic Research?, JAR — Journal for Artistic Research, April 23. https://www.jar-online.net/what-artistic-research
Lykke, Nina, ed. 2014. Writing Academic Texts Differently. New York: Routledge.
Miriam BARRY, Steps to Academic Writing, Cambridge – New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Nina LYKKE (ed.), Writing Academic Texts Differently. Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing, New York: Routledge 2014.
Pascal GIELEN – Paul DE BRUYNE (eds.), Teaching Art in the Neoliberal Realm, Amsterdam: Valiz 2012
Paulo FREIRE, Pedagogika utlačovaných, Praha: Neklid 2022
Renate LORENZ (ed.), Not Now! Now! Chronopolitics, Art & Research, Berlín: Sternberg 2014
Sam THORNE (ed.), School. A Recent History of Self-Organized Art Education, Berlín: Sternberg 2017
Schimel, Joshua. 2012. Writing Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Strunk, William I. 1999. The Elements of Style. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River: Pearson.
Swales, John M., and Christine B. Feak. 2009. Abstracts and the Writing of Abstracts: Vol. 1 of the revised and expanded edition of English in Today`s Research World. Michigan: University of Michigan Press.
Turabian, Kate L. 2007. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers. 7th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Umberto ECO, Jak napsat diplomovou práci, Praha: Votobia 1997
Wolfgang ISER, Jak se dělá teorie. Praha: Univerzita Karlova: Karolinum, 2009.
Wouter DAVIDTS – Kim PAICE (eds.), The Fall of the Studio. Artists at Work, Amsterdam: Valiz 2009
ZBÍRAL, R. Příručka psaní seminárních a jiných vysokoškolských odborných prací. Praha: Linde, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7201-779-9.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUM_M Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Diploma seminar

14 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

- Specification of the individual Master's project in relation to the Diploma Project 

- Collection of possible topic options and formal solutions 

- Establishing a creative intent, including defining the theme, technique and scope 

- Formulation of the Diploma Project assignment 

- Sketching, collecting material, etc. 

- Starting the actual physical realization of the Diploma Project