Course detail

Art history Pro-Seminar

FaVU-1PDU-ZAcad. year: 2009/2010

The seminar will lead the students into their theoretical studies and will focus on the differences between secondary school and academic approach. The students will be made aware about the context of teh faculty, of the city of Brno, the region, and Czech and international art. Students wil be presented various databases, both printed and computerized ones. The students will present a paper on a particular theoretical topic, which they support by the presentation of a structured database. They will be preparing for the History of Art exam; taking a blindfold test (which will consist of identifying the context and interpreting a previously unknown visual material) will part of this process.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Pavel Ondračka

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The students will present a paper based on a structured visual database. The paper will focus either on the personality and work of a contemporary visual artist, or on an artist teaching or having taught on FavU.

Prerequisites

High school level of knowledge from the history, literature, arts.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Students will present a paper; a complex verbal and visual presentation, using a structured visual database, will be evaluated. Students must take part in the discussions.

Course curriculum

1. The context of the FaVU, its tutors, graduates, the Brno cultural milieu, its traditions and its context (papers).
2. Visiting the permanent exposition of visual art in Moravian Gallery during the seminar.
3. Topical information about importatn events on the artistic scene.
4. Blindfold tests: the students will attempt to contextualize and interpret unnown visual data.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The main objectives of the seminar emphasise the transition from high-school conception of education, understood on a comprehensive basis, to the development of their own individuality, the ability to reflect their social environment, to critical approach both to works of art and to specialized and journalistic texts. The students must learn to quickly, efficiently, and critically look up relevant visual and textual information essential for their studies. They will present the found information by writing an essay and oral presentation of a paper, by a structured visual database. The form of both presentations will be evaluated. Students will learn to take part in academic discussion.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The seminars are mandatory.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Dějiny českého výtvarného umění od počátku do konce středověku
Dějiny českého výtvarného umění od počátku renesance do závěru baroka
Kol - Dějiny českého výtvarného. umění

Recommended reading

Jan Sedlák a kol., 10 let FaVU

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch AEN , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AIN , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch APK , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AGD , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AGR , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AM2 , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AM3 , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AM1 , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AS1 , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AS2 , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch APE , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AVI , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch AMU , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch ATD , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch APD , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

13 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Pavel Ondračka