6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 4020930DER for all students in the 2nd semester at a (D) Master - preliminary level.

Semester
2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Possible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Languages & Humanities
Department
History, Archaeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics
Educational team
Tine Meganck (course titular)
Activities and contact hours

26 contact hours Lecture
144 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

This course studies early modern visual culture, which is the end product as well as the mediator of different human fields of interest: political and social currents, philosophy, literature…. Visual culture exploded in Early Modern Times when the invention of printing unchained a knowledge culture with an unprecedented social and global reach, and redrew the image of man in the cosmos, in the world and of himself.

The course sets out to unravel early modern visual culture on the basis of case studies and from a multi-methodical perspective (iconography, material culture, gender, global art…). A critical reflection on the historical “image as source” stimulates a discussion on truth, manipulation and propaganda in today’s visual and mediatized culture.  We focus on the Early Modern Low Countries in a European and global perspective, but subthemes may vary year to year. Sessions are conceived thematically (e.g. merchant networks, humanism, landscape and ecology…) and consider case-studies diachronically (within the Early Modern Period). Major artists are cited for reference, but we equally look at popular and anonymous visual art. 

Course material
Practical course material (Required) : Eigen lesnotities te nemen door de studenten. Ondersteunende en (verplicht) aanvullende literatuur wordt opgegeven.
Digital course material (Required) : Gedigitaliseerde kopie van het beeldmateriaal wordt waar mogelijke ter beschikking gesteld., Canvas
Additional info

Digitized course material (PP’s by the lecturer) will be available on CANVAS.
The lecturer will provide an obligatory weekly reading assignment via the Canvas platform. 

Each session (class) consists of approximately an hour lecture and an hour class discussion based on the weekly obligatory reading assignments introduced and presented in turn by students. Given the importance of class participation and discussion, presence is highly recommended. 

It is possible that an excursion will result in moderate extra costs for the students that are not covered by the university. 

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

1. The student has general knowledge and understanding of, and is able to reflect on the working and impact of visual culture in Early Modern Times

2. The student has knowledge and understanding of the debates in this field

3. The student can autonomously formulate a research topic and related research questions as pertaining to the study of early modern visual culture

4. The student reports orally and in writing on his/her research results

5. The student has the general skills necessary for this study domain, among them close observation and analytical looking, independent research including the use of art historical apparatus, the study and interpretation of sources; critical reflection on the literature of the field as formulated in relevant languages

 

 

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 25% of the final mark.
SELF Paper determines 50% of the final mark.
Other determines 25% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • examen mondeling with a relative weight of 25 which comprises 25% of the final mark.

Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • paper with a relative weight of 25 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Within the Other category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • participation/presentation with a relative weight of 20 which comprises 25% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Assessment: 

  • 25% for the aspect SELF during the semester (class participation and presentation to the group)
  • 50% on the written paper (4000 words/5000 words incl. notes) to be submitted at the latest two weeks before the exam
  • 25% on the oral examination during which the student can defend and elaborate on the written paper, and it is expected to interact with themes and literature discussed during class. 

In addition 

  • the oral examination can not be taken if the written paper has not been submitted on time. 
  • the second session requires the submission of a new paper (this can be an improved version of the paper submitted for the first session); results for the aspect SELF for the first session are transferred to the second session, unless a different arrangement is made with the Primary Instructor after the first session. 
Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Art Studies and Archaeology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Arts and Humanities: History (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Arts and Humanities: Art History and Heritage Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Arts and Humanities: Philosophy (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Arts and Humanities: Ethics and Humanism (only offered in Dutch)