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AXM-E3003 - Authorship and Agency, Lecture, 7.1.2025-11.2.2025

Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course helps students to understand the basics of artistic, social and political authorship and agency, extendin from copyright to the historical notion of genius, and issues related to the profession of the artist, class, gender, and ethnicity.

Credits: 6

Schedule: 07.01.2025 - 11.02.2025

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Max Ryynänen

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    This is a course on authors and agents - on the cultural role of the conception of the author and the ways in which different ideas of it, together with diverse agencies, are central in artistic production. It is also about positions in life, art and philosophy. What is an author? What do we mean with authorship? Marx is the author of The Capital, but he is also somehow the author of Marxism too? We will discuss ways of over-emphasizing the author in art and reactions against it. What would authorship be without copyright? How do our ideas on authorship and genius affect people's behaviors (Me Too)? The course supports the student's own 'path', the way we today often need to build our own position, agency and way of being an author/artist/designer.

Assessment Methods and Criteria

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Active participation, evaluation of writing.

    Minimum 80% attendance.

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Workload

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    6 ECTS ≈ 162h

    Contact teaching 12h/Other 150h

    Lectures & discussions, reading, writing. Students
    produce an essay or a learning diary.

DETAILS

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FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Teaching Language: English

    Teaching Period: 2024-2025 Spring III
    2025-2026 No teaching

    Registration:

    Minimum amount of participants 8
    Maximum amount of participants 30.
    Priority order to courses is according to the order of priority decided by the Academic committee for School of Arts, Design and Architecture
    https//www.aalto.fi/en/services/registering-to-courses-and-the-order-of-priority-at-aalto-arts

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