Course detail

Thesis Seminar 4

FaVU-2DIPLS4Acad. year: 2024/2025

Diploma seminar 4 is focused on the creation of the text part of the thesis documentation. In the early part of the semester, students are introduced to the requirements for this written form and are assigned advisors from the Department of Art Theory and History. Later in the semester, individual work on the textual part of the thesis documentation is based on consultation with the assigned consultants.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Mgr. Jan Zálešák, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Entry knowledge

Thesis Seminar 1, Thesis Seminar 2

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Credit is awarded on the basis of continuous consultation and submission of the text of the thesis documentation meeting the established criteria of scope, factual and linguistic correctness.

Seminars are held in the classrooms of Art History and Theory Department of FFA in the hours determined by the schedule. Attendance is compulsory. Consultations on work in progress are held either in the classrooms and cabinets of AHTD or online via MS Teams. Consulting is compulsory.

Aims

The aim of the course is to provide students with support in the process of writing the text part of the final thesis documentation. The teaching (which is mainly individual consultations) is aimed at enabling students to provide concise, factually correct and linguistically sophisticated information about their thesis project.

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to present their graduate project in a relatively brief but comprehensive text, explain their motivation, introduce the topic of the project, describe the process of its realization, and indicate its placement in the context of the visual arts.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Miriam BARRY, Steps to Academic Writing, Cambridge – New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. (EN)
Nina LYKKE (ed.), Writing Academic Texts Differently: Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing, Routledge , 2014. (EN)

Type of course unit

Diploma seminar

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Mgr. Jan Zálešák, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Introductory lecture: introduction of the thesis documentation format, its purpose and parameters.
Individual work (based on consultations) aimed at finalizing the textual part of the thesis documentation.