Course - Doing Research with the Arts as Methodological Practice - LOS8033
Doing Research with the Arts as Methodological Practice
Assessments and mandatory activities may be changed until September 20th.
About
About the course
Course content
This fully online course positions doing research with the arts as a rigorous and transformative research methodology. The course is designed to develop the ability to articulate, document and critically and ethically reflect about the methodological level of own and others' doing research with the arts. Moving beyond art as mere representation, participants will work with artistic processes—material, symbolic, and embodied—as tools for generating new knowledge.
Learning outcome
Knowledge
The candidate has
- has expert understanding of doing research with the arts as methodological practice
- advanced knowledge of established and emerging arts-informed methods
- expert insights into how meaning-making emerges through embodied and performative acts through doing research with the arts
- advanced knowledge about the ethical, reflexive, and participatory dimensions of creative inquiry across disciplines
Skills
The candidate can
- design and carry out research projects that integrate artistic methods with other research traditions and their critical theoritization
- generate, interpret, and communicate rich data from creative processes in ways that are academically robust and accessible to diverse audiences
- is able to language and write with and from the artistic research project enhancing the complexity and polyvocality of research methodology.
- develop outputs through a digital exposition that engage stakeholders both within and beyond the academy, fostering impactful public dialogue about the subject of inquiry
General competences
The candidate has
- advanced ability to bridge theory, practice, and public engagement in interdisciplinary research settings
- advanced competence in dialoguing with theory, understood as ways of infusing and cross-fertilizing the artistic research project with new perspectives, including necessary friction.
- expert capacity to translate creative inquiry methods across disciplines, and contexts
- thorough reflexive understanding of how research interventions can shape, transform and engage with society
Learning methods and activities
The course combines practical and theoretical learning through:
- Creative digital workshops using a broader range of creative methods, integrating performative theory with creative practice
- Collaborative dialogues and peer-supervision
- Digital sharing of process and outcomes, fostering constructive peer feedback
- Reflective journals documenting artistic, conceptual, and methodological insights
- Reading and thinking with theory
Compulsory assignments
- Colloquium 1
- Colloquium 2
- Work-in-progress sharing
- Approved self-chosen syllabus
- Attendance 80%
Further on evaluation
Practical Exam
- Digital exposition, including theory-infused written reflection (Individual)
Through the tasks the student shall develop ways of reflecting around the methodological level in a way that suits the projects investigated, including written parts.
Text submitted for assessment in the required academic coursework may be included in the thesis in revised form.
For a retake of a failed exam, the candidate can submit a revised version of a previously submitted text in the course. If the submission is a revised version of a previously submitted text, this must be clarified in the text.
Recommended previous knowledge
Experience as artist or artist-teacher.
Required previous knowledge
Master's Degree or equivalent. PhD students are prioritized for admission.
Admission restrictions*: The course is limited to a maximum of 25 students. If there are less than 5 applicants, the Department of Teacher Education reserves the right to cancel the course.
* Applicants will be ranked based on the following criteria and deadline for applications can be found on our web page: https://www.ntnu.edu/ilu/phd-courses
Subject areas
- Teacher Education