Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen
Koninklijke Academie van Antwerpen
Research Methodology 334476/3298/2425/1/37
Study guide

Research Methodology 3

34476/3298/2425/1/37
Academic year 2024-25
Is found in:
  • Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts, programme stage 3
  • Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts
  • Bridging Programme Visual Arts
  • Preparatory Programme Visual Arts
This is a single course unit.
Study load: 3 credits
Special admission is required to enrol in this course unit under
  • exam contract (to obtain a credit).
  • exam contract (to obtain a degree).
Co-ordinator: Theys Hans
Languages: Dutch, English
Scheduled for: Semester 2
This course unit is marked out of 20 (rounded to an integer).
Possible deadlines for learning account: 15.03.2025 ()
Re-sit exam: is possible.
Possibility of deliberation: You have to pass this course unit (will never be deliberated).
Total study time: 90,00 hours

Prerequisites

previously registered for Research Methodology 2.

Short description

In a few introductory lessons, we discuss academic and non-academic artistic research through many examples, focusing on how research models and methods are used and can evolve. Then the students are divided into groups of about 10 people. We discuss their paper and current research and how they can link it to existing theories, models or methods. We try to present this use of models and methods not as limiting, but as a driving force, as a stimulating framework that can evolve as well.

Prerequisite competencies (text)

No specific competences required.

Learning outcomes (list)

BA4 - The student develops and sharpens his/her critical and investigative attitude towards designs and/or realizations that arise from visual experiments and research, emotion and intuition.
The student learns to deal correctly with bibliographic data. The style guide applies as a guideline.
The student can summarize a lecture.
The student can write a paper.
The student can express a personal point of view in writing.
The student can use a reference system in a consistent manner.
BA5 - When developing his/her personal visual language the students starts from a searching and reflective attitude when developing one's own visual language.
The student has gained insight into the broad spectrum of possible approaches and interpretations of research in the arts and is able to report on this.
The student can connect the acquired insights to their own artistic (research) practice and thus recognize and describe research - at different levels - within their own practice.

Course content

In some introductory lessons, we will discuss academic and non-academic artistic research through many examples, focusing on how research models and methods can evolve. You will then be invited to write a paper on your general interests and working methods, and on your bachelor's project, which you will try to describe and analyse as concretely as possible, with the explicit aim of preparing you to write your master's proposal. For writing this paper, you will be given a manual with suggestions. These papers are then read and discussed together in the form of seminars (groups of ten students), focusing on both the the concrete project and the structure of the paper.

Study material (text): Mandatory

The lecturer discusses working methods in the oeuvre of numerous visual artists, designers, choreographers, musicians, writers and scientists and refers to texts.

The students are invited to contribute more material (examples, texts, etc.).

The students have to attend all classes. No alternative assignmernts will be available.


Educational organisation (list)

Learning Activities
Lectures and / or tutorials26,00 hours
Work time outside of contact hours64,00 hours

Evaluation (list)

Evaluation(s) for first exam chance
MomentForm%Remark
Eerste examenperiodeResearch Assignment100,00
Evaluation(s) for re-sit exam
MomentForm%Remark
2nd examination periodResearch Assignment100,00

Evaluation (text)

You will write a paper during the year in which you develop a well-founded research project for the master's project or thesis in your master's year. In doing so, you not only make use of the recommended literature and references, but also of the input and insights obtained during seminars and lessons, in which the papers are shared and discussed with fellow students. Active attendance is thus the starting point of this course and is a requirement for a well-developed and substantiated paper.