Master's Degree Project in Craft 2

The course is a programme course given during the fourth semester.

The course is part of the MFA Programme in Crafts, 120 credits (K2TIL).

Admission requires a Pass grade (G) on the following courses:

• KHMK11, Method and Context for Craft Practices 30 credits
• KHMF10, Advanced Project Studies in Craft 1, 15 credits
• KHMP20, Craft and the Public 7,5 credits
• KHMF20, Advanced Project Studies in Craft 1, 15 credits
• In addition, completion of the course KHMX11, Master's Degree Project in Craft 2, 15 credits.

In the course the student deepens and completes their degree project that has been started in the initial degree course in semester three. The student develops a critical understanding of the degree project's context and relationship to craft or close fields by writing a degree report that describes the degree project. The degree project is exhibited at a degree exhibition.

Sub-Course 1. Degree Project (Examensprojekt), 15 credits, Grading scale: Pass (G) and Fail (U)

In the module, the student deepens their independent degree project. Through a reflecting artistic process, the student solves advanced artistic and practice-based problems. The student develops new and individual expressions in their chosen specialisation ceramic art, jewellery art or textile art. At the examination, the student presents a completed artistic work.

Sub-Course 2. Degree Report **(Examensrapport), 7.5 credits, **Grading scale: Pass (G) and Fail (U)

In the module, the student writes a degree report that describes the degree project. The student presents the starting point and context for their own artistic work. In a reflective text the student describes processes and choices regarding methods, materials and visualisation. The student presents their new experiences and
conclusions from the work. The student describes how their own artistic ideas and their own way of expression relate to craft or related fields, relevant to their own artistic research work, nationally and internationally.

*Sub-Course 3. Communication, Profiling, Identity **(Kommunikation, profilering, identitet), 7.5 credits, Grading scale: Pass (G) and Fail (U)*

The student examines the preconditions for a professional working life in their own subject study field. The student identifies and evaluates possible future contexts to work within and develops forms for profiling their artistic work. This forms the basis for planning of how the degree project shall be displayed and communicated in a public context. Within the framework of a degree exhibition, the student presents their degree project with descriptive texts and visual material. To participate in the degree exhibition, the student’s degree project must be completed and assessed as passing by the examiner in the sub-course Degree Project (Examensprojekt), 15 credits

On successful completion of the course, the student should be able to

Knowledge and Understanding

• show familiarity with process, materials and methods to manage advanced artistic inquiries in their chosen specialisation, ceramic art, jewellery art or textile art
• show familiarity to describe processes, methods and solutions regarding advanced artistic problems in their independent artistic work orally and in writing

Competence and Skills

• identify questions in their artistic own work that contributes to the knowledge development in craft and their chosen specialisation; ceramic art, jewellery art or textile art.
• independently develop new and individual artistic expressions within their chosen specialisation; ceramic art, jewellery art or textile art
• show such skills and knowledge needed for a professional life as ceramic, jewellery or textile artist
• present a completed artistic degree project in a public exhibition context, taking into account given conditions
• develop forms for profiling and presentation of their own artistic degree project in a exhibition context

Judgement and Approach

• critically reflect on how the completed degree project relates to their individually formulated questions
• critically reflect on how their own artistic practice relates to the craft field and to the art field in general.

Teaching takes place in the form of seminars, lectures, and tutoring.

The language of instruction is English.

The sub-course Degree Project (Examensprojekt), 15 credits is assessed through the student's presentation of the completed independent degree project visually and in a written summary of the degree report. The student accounts orally for choice of context, material, method and solutions in the artistic process as well as their own won experiences.

The sub-course Degree Report (Examensrapport), 7.5 credits is examined through a written report and the student's participation as a respondent and opponent at an opposition seminar.

The sub-course Communication, Profiling, Identity (Kommunikation, profilering, identitet), 7.5 credits is examined in writing, visually and orally through a presentation of the degree project in a given exhibition context. At the degree exhibition, only works created during the degree course may be presented. If older works are included, they must have undergone significant further development and refinement, clearly demonstrating a deepening of the original work.

Complementation of an examined student performance may be allowed. The possibility of complementation is assessed on an individual basis and decided by the examiner. Complementation is carried out through the supplementary assignments determined by the examiner and within a specified timeframe.

Absence from examination may be replaced with another form of examination after the examiner's assessment.

If a student who has been failed twice for the same examination element wishes to change examiner before the next examination session, such a request is to be granted unless there are specific reasons to the contrary (Chapter 6 Section 22 HF).

If a student has received a certificate of disability study support from the University of Gothenburg with a recommendation of adapted examination and/or adapted forms of assessment, an examiner may decide, if this is consistent with the course’s intended learning outcomes and provided that no unreasonable resources would be needed, to grant the student adapted examination and/or adapted forms of assessment.

If a course has been discontinued or undergone major changes, the student must be offered at least two examination sessions in addition to ordinary examination sessions. These sessions are to be spread over a period of at least one year but no more than two years after the course has been discontinued/changed. The same applies to placement and internship (VFU) except that this is restricted to only one further examination session.

If a student has been notified that they fulfil the requirements for being a student at Riksidrottsuniversitetet (RIU student), to combine elite sports activities with studies, the examiner is entitled to decide on adaptation of examinations if this is done in accordance with the Local rules regarding RIU students at the University of Gothenburg.

The grading scale comprises: Pass (G) and Fail (U).

Students are given the opportunity to evaluate the course anonymously at the end of the course.The result and any changes to the structure of the course should be communicated both to the students who carried out the evaluation and to the students who are to start the course.

This course syllabus replaces KHMX20, Master's Degree Project in Craft 2, 30 credits.

The student is responsible for any costs in connection with the implementation of the course.