Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS)
OCCAS Moving Monuments: Rome offers a study of historical monuments. The course teaches you about buildings but also about the techniques and approaches that you need to know to become a scholar.
Initially, you are asked to select a monument in Rome, which you will work with and investigate throughout the course. To aid that investigation, a seminar led by six OCCAS teachers presents a spectrum of approaches to architectural research, intended to guide both you and the monument through history – and history through its many mediations.
“Moving” may refer to the transportation of architecture, but also to the recreation and circulation of monuments in various media and materials, museums and models, print- and preservation strategies. Experts in respective fields, counting Tim Anstey, Mari Hvattum, Mari Lending, Victor Plahte Tschudi and Even Smith Wergeland, join forces to teach you not only about past monuments but also about the methods that enable us to think, write and talk about them.
The learning outcome is twofold. First, the course offers extensive knowledge of buildings (primarily in Rome) and the media and materials that convey them, ranging from plaster to the popular press. However, the course is also about research, introducing students to topics such as hermeneutics, archival studies, visual analysis, and textual interpretation. In short, the aim is to turn students into confident researchers able to command and apply contemporary perspectives on a historical material.
The course is structured as a series of mini-seminars organized by the OCCAS teaching staff. One of the seminars takes place in Rome, the others at AHO, consisting of a combination of lectures and workshops. In three assignments, you are asked to present different aspect of “your” monument. Simultaneously you will work on your main presentation under individual supervision. Activities count weekly lectures/workshops.
A general reading list, as well as lists relating to particular monuments, will be disributed at course start.
Obligatorisk arbeidskrav | Påkrevde arbeidskrav | Oppmøte påkrevd | Kommentar |
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Øvinger | Påkrevd | Muntlige presentasjoner Innlevering og muntlig presentasjon av tre korte essays i løpet av semesteret i tillegg til arbeid med et avsluttende foredrag. |
Vurderingsform | Gruppering | Karakterskala | Kommentar |
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Muntlig presentasjon | Individuell | Bestått / ikke bestått | En avsluttende presentasjon ved semsterslutt som tar form som en forelesning på ca. 30 minutter, komplett med billedmateriale og åpen for inviterte tilhørere. |
Aktivitet | Kommentar |
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Ekskursjon | Ekskursjon til Roma. De som ikke har anledning til å delta på ekskursjon vil få en oppgave/et prosjekt som erstatter denne. |
Oppmøte | Oppmøte og aktiv deltagelse i forelesninger, workshops og seminarer er forventet. |