Welcome to your exchange studies at Visual Art and Sloyd Education. Here you'll find an overview of the curriculum and course strucure offered during your exchange period with us.
Course placement
The Department of Visual Arts and Sloyd Education at Konstfack offers two Teacher Education programmes.
One programme for students who want to become teachers at upper secondary level, with Visual Arts as main subject and Media or Design as the second subject.For this programme the exchange period is during the autum semester of the second year of the programme.
One programme for students who want to become teachers at secondary level in Visual Arts and Sloyd. For this programme the exchange period is during the spring semester of the third year of the programme.
Course Syllabi
Exchange students are welcome to apply to our semester of Visual Art classes, namely Narration, Spatial Art and Material Culture. Below you’ll find descriptions of what these courses entail. Please note that the content of the courses might vary slightly from these descriptions.
Narration
The course consists of three parts. One practical part that deals with narration using moving images in a more traditional way. Namely that which in everyday life might be understood as classical movie narration. But also the contrary, an investigation of different genres’ narrative patterns and conventions.
The second part of the course deals with and investigates comics and different types of animation. We investigate how we can convey a message effectively using our own images and work with different animation techniques.
The third part of the course is a theory segment. This part deals with general questions concerning the narrative of the image, narration and learning.
Course Syllabus Narration
Spatial Art
The course aims at making the similarities and differences in three-dimensional formations visible. During the course we work with problematizations and methods ranging from the small object to the spatial installation, from the principles of depiction to the idea-based strategies for formation and boundary-breaking types of formation like performance.
By trying and re-trying an object’s or room’s attributes we wish to problematize and make visible how the room’s attributes both presuppose and affect an artistic and pedagogical work. The course consists of different parts: installation, sculpture, art didactics and art theory. We investigate spatial dimensions like the bodily, material, social, relational and temporal dimensions. These are dimensions that we need to respect and relate to, both in artistic and pedagogical practices.
Course Syllabus Moving Images, Communication and Learning
Material Culture
What are our expectations for the future concerning production, consumption and environment? Instead of buying products produced far away from where we live, under conditions we don’t stand for, perhaps we should learn to create our own everyday objects?
Material culture is a Visual Arts course in which we work thematically with these questions. The dominating features of the course are formation work along with art and design theory. The course will problematize the concept of Anthropocene, meaning the era that we live in now, linked to the Earth’s inability to heal the environmental damages caused by man. We also look at what we can do as individuals today when it comes to recycling, downcycling and upcycling.
The course will also investigate the phenomenon of advertising, its visual rhetoric, and how it is feverishly at work to make us spend more money on products and services. To understand how advertising works can be a way to raise awareness about the effect it has in people’s lives.
Course Syllabus Material Culture
Language
Undergraduate courses are held in Swedish. The lecturers will give you information and instructions in English and make sure that you can partake in the class.
Academic year and semesters
The
academic year at Konstfack University is divided in two semesters: autumn and spring.
- Autumn semester: starts in the first week of September and runs until mid-January.
- Spring semester: starts in mid-January and runs until the first week of June.
Note: Semester dates may differ from those at your home university. If you need to leave before the official end of the semester, please discuss this with your programme director upon arrival to find a solution.
One week of full-time studies corresponds to 1,5 credits (or ECTS). One semester of full-time studies is equal to 30 credits (or ECTS). The grades are Pass (G or Godkänt) or Fail (U or Underkänt)
Contact information
General questions about international exchange (application, admission, insurance etc)
international@konstfack.se
Administrative questions (schedule, transcript of records etc)
Erika Johansson, erika.johansson@konstfack.se
Administrative Director of Studies
Related links
Teacher Education