Entry requirements

A Bachelor's degree, equivalent to a Swedish Kandidatexamen, from an internationally recognised university. The main field of study must be within the humanities or the social sciences. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following knowledge and skills:

• Knowledge of tools and methods for visual analysis.
• Knowledge of the material and visual nature of objects and the ability to utilise adequate methods to describe and analyse these.
• The ability to describe, analyse, compare and critically evaluate methods for visual analysis in relation to digital source material.
• The ability to critically evaluate the meaning of digital source material in humanistic knowledge production.

Content

The course introduces various tools and methods for visual analysis in the humanities and digital humanities. The course deals with the material and visual nature of objects in relation to the digital humanities. Through laboratory elements and excursions, students will have the opportunity to experience objects in both their material and digital forms and, by applying methods for visual analysis of the object in both material and digital form, to investigate what knowledge these objects generate. The emphasis is on the skill of comprehending and problematising the meaning of digitisation's consequences for humanistic knowledge production in relation to visual analysis

Instruction

Instruction will take place in the form of lectures, seminars, laboratory elements, group exercises and excursions. All elements of tuition that involve some form of examination are compulsory. Absence will need to be compensated for by performing supplementary tasks. We recommend that course participants bring a laptop for use during classes, however this is not necessary.

Assessment

Examination will be by written individual written examination, oral and written seminar exercises and the presentation of assignments and exercises conducted individually or in groups.

Active participation in the examined seminars is a requirement fulfiling the course requirements. Any student who misses a single compulsory teaching element will be required to submit a supplementary assignment, the scope of which will reflect the workload that would have been required to actively participate in the teaching element in question.

Generally speaking, the course will include one ordinary examination opportunity plus one retake. The date of the retake will also be the deadline for submitting supplementary assignments. Thereafter, students will be referred to the next occasion on which the course is held, which as a rule will be during the following academic year.

Students who wish to complete supplementary assignments from a previous course will preferably be given an assignment based on current course content. All elements of the course will be assessed with one of the grades fail, pass or pass with distinction.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.