Course detail

Theses Seminar 2

FaVU-2DIPLS2Acad. year: 2024/2025

The Thesis Seminar is the second basic creative subject in the study programme in the winter semester of the 2nd year of the follow-up Master's programme, alongside the Master's Studio. It provides students with support and guidance in the process of completing the Diploma Project. Students continue its physical realization according to the assignment. During the semester they modify partial aspects of the formal design, remove deadlocks and refine technical parameters (in collaboration with the cabinets). The whole course of the Diploma Project implementation is systematically verified through intensive consultations with the supervisor. During the Public Presentation of the Semester Work at the end of the winter semester, students receive collective feedback on the developed form of the Diploma Project.  

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Entry knowledge

Thesis Seminar 1

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 continue the implementation of the Diploma Project.  
The Diploma Project is a work in progress. Students are preparing for its completion in the following semester.  

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

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
BAILEY, S. Academic writing: a handbook for international students. London, New York: Routledge, 2015. 978-1-138-77849-8.

Recommended reading

Jan SVENUNGSSON, Umelec a písanie, Bratislava: Slovart – VŠVU 2013
Paulo FREIRE, Pedagogika utlačovaných, Praha: Neklid 2022
Pascal GIELEN – Paul DE BRUYNE (eds.), Teaching Art in the Neoliberal Realm, Amsterdam: Valiz 2012
Jeroen LUTTERS – Mike BAL (eds.), Visual Thinking with Mieke Bal, Amsterdam: Valiz 2018
Wouter DAVIDTS – Kim PAICE (eds.), The Fall of the Studio. Artists at Work, Amsterdam: Valiz 2009
Sam THORNE (ed.), School. A Recent History of Self-Organized Art Education, Berlín: Sternberg 2017
Florian MALZACHER – Pelin TAN – Ahmet Ögüt (eds.), The Silent University. Towards a Transversal Pedagogy, Berlín: Sternberg 2016
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
James ELKINS (ed.), Artists with PhDs. On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art, Washington, DC: New Academia 2014
Julian KLEIN, What Is Artistic Research?, JAR — Journal for Artistic Research, April 23. https://www.jar-online.net/what-artistic-research
Renate LORENZ (ed.), Not Now! Now! Chronopolitics, Art & Research, Berlín: Sternberg 2014
Wolfgang ISER, Jak se dělá teorie. Praha: Univerzita Karlova: Karolinum, 2009.
Umberto ECO, Jak napsat diplomovou práci, Praha: Votobia 1997
Aleš RICHTER, Co je dobré vědět o psaní diplomové či disertační práce, Liberec 2008
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.
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
ZBÍRAL, R. Příručka psaní seminárních a jiných vysokoškolských odborných prací. Praha: Linde, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7201-779-9.
Haraway, Donna. 1988. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” Feminist Studies 14(3): 575–599.
Lykke, Nina, ed. 2014. Writing Academic Texts Differently. New York: Routledge.
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.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUM_M Master's, 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Diploma seminar

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

- Continued work on the physical implementation of the Diploma Project, elimination of faulty solutions