Class Dissertation Project Seminar

This course aims to initiate the master's dissertation and continue the artistic project. The master's dissertation may articulate a body of artistic and research work (theoretical-practical dissertation) or not (exclusively theoretical dissertation). The course should identify or confirm the structural question, understand and develop a written document that adheres to the institutional document formatting rules, and develop the topics and corresponding bibliography and case studies.

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Start the structure of the Master's thesis in Painting document. Find out what the structural question is. Develop writing that complies with the institutional rules for formatting the document, with regard to structure (cover, declarations of originality, index, development, conclusion, indication of bibliographic data according to the indicated standards, image captions). In the index, develop the topics and the respective bibliography and case studies. Develop the artistic project in Painting, with the respective visual documentation for inclusion in the dissertation document; Develop the installation thinking of the works considering their specificity and exhibition conditions.

This phase of the master's research is carried out with weekly three-hour tutorials by a professor and supervisors to ensure that the student has intellectual support, both in writing and in producing work. This monitoring ensures that the structure of the dissertation document is relevant and appropriate to the student's research project, that it has the required originality and is written in accordance with the required standards. It also ensures that the student continues their artistic project in a manner consistent with their theoretical-conceptual investigation, without making it illustrative, guaranteeing the plastic quality of the work and its autonomy in relation to any explanation or description. The evaluation of the theoretical-practical research work (or theoretical, if this is the student's option) is done through the structuring of the dissertation document. (See more detailed information in: Funcionamento da unidade curricular)

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