Course content

Through a self-chosen specialization task in building new on a traditional professional basis, you develop your practice in carpentry, bar construction or carpentry. In addition to documenting your own professional development, you document the process of finding and selecting source material. Furthermore, you document testing of different methods for building new in a traditional context.

Based on practical examples of possible tasks, project descriptions are developed in groups before you choose your problem. The problem is explored in an individual or in a joint project.

The experiences from the systematic and planned implementation of the practical task form the basis for reflections on further development of traditional building crafts. The reflections are presented in the thesis according to academic requirements and are presented for discussion with the academic environment (students, lecturers, supervisors and examiners).

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

The candidate is familiar with methods for traditional analysis

Skills:

The candidate can formulate relevant issues within traditional building crafts

The candidate can develop their own practical craft skills

The candidate can apply and critically apply source material

The candidate can document objects and processes and make choices according to academic guidelines

General competence:

• The candidate can, in a suitable communication method, present and discuss his / her own development work and place the work in a traditional professional context.
• The candidate can assess the quality of their own and others' knowledge production and can make use of these results in their professional practice.

Learning methods and activities

The assignment is performed as group work (max. 3 students in one group) but can be made as an individual assignment by agreement.

If up to 3 students have independent projects that are closely related to each other, they can form a working group with nevertheless independent submissions.

All forms of work must be supervised. Presentations of status in own project and reflections on own and others' work

Further on evaluation

Assessment is weighted as follows:

• practical research 50%,
• assignment 30%
• oral presentation of assignment and exercise 20%

The course ends with a practical work test with a graded grade. In the event of a valid absence, a practical work test must be taken by a new deadline by agreement with the course coordinator. In the event of failure, invalid absence or voluntary repetition, a new test may be taken earliest at the next examination.

Specific conditions

Required previous knowledge

To begin a bachelor's thesis, the student must be registered as a student in the 6th semester of the study traditional building crafts and have passed at least 60 credits in their (individual) study plan. Exceptions from this can be processed upon application.

Course materials

Lectures and literature in the introductory course given in the course. Relevant tools and materials for the exercise and literature the student finds necessary.

Credit reductions