Thesis

Recommended Prerequisites

Completed 1st year curricular  course with thesis project approved.

Teaching Methods

Teaching methodology is marked by tutorial sessions that examine and discuss both the written materials of the research and the practical resources established in the artistic (and professional) context. The supervisor will propose a timetable, through negotiation and discussion with the PhD student, detailing the working process and the completion of the thesis text so to ensure its conveyance accordingly with the academic deadlines. The focus on the state of the art review, on the structure and main issues of the thesis, the specifying of the case studies and of the subsequent related explor

Learning Outcomes

The Curricular unit Thesis understands the years of development and production of thePhD thesis under ongoing pedagogical guidance by the supervisor or group of supervisors. Forthcoming and expressive skills both at the level of writing and verbal discourse should be improved at this stage. It is intended that PhD students acquire practical knowledge in the planning, development and conclusion of their project.

It is intended that the students start their research and proceed to the design of preparatory written documents (records of specific reading, essays, chapters drafts, Abstract articles for peer review) that can arrange the bulk of the thesis document. This curricular unit will also seek to ensure the accomplishment of the research work and the conditions for its public defense.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

This Curricular unit is based on tutorials sessions that are organized according to the methodological criteria and research work planned by the supervisor; the two academic years also require that students, duly evaluated by the supervisor, participate in the seminar sessions organized at the Seminar of Contemporary Art II. This participation provides the PhD student with a qualitative understanding of the methodological perspectives that are available to research; it also provides a deferred valuation - through dialogue with the remaining PhD students- of the field work inertias and contradictions and of the difficulties surrounding the development of the thesis. During this Curricular unit students will seek to consolidate the development and accomplishment of their research. The final object of this curricular unit is the making of a doctoral thesis.

Head Lecturer(s)

António José Olaio Correia de Carvalho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Phd Students are expected to keep their supervisors and Colégio das Artes updated on the research and the work in progress that is being carried on through reports. In the final year the PhD students are expected to deliver within the academic deadlines their dissertation document: 100.0%

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Lyotard, Jean-Francois. (1989). A Condição Pós-moderna, (1984), (trad. port. José Bragança de Miranda), Lisboa, Gradiva.

Rancière, Jacques. (2000) Estética e Política. A Partilha do Sensível, (trad. port. Vanessa Brito), Porto, Dafne Editora.
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