Through the course, the students will learn
The background for this activity is to identify how students can engage with and evaluate the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) 2017.
The case work is integrated into a compulsory and defined process, which in general assists in qualifying and preparing/concluding the students' work on the cases. The students will be given an assignment to conduct a research- and interview-based study of an individually chosen project under "Rethink" - Aarhus European Capital of Culture 2017, with special focus on its administration and reflection of the international and European dimension contained in the project’s formulation and its former/current status.
In addition, I provide the students with a range of instructions in connection with their individually chosen case work. The case study should preferably include a:
Work process and methods:
In their evaluation of the course the students pointed out that they had received an alternative knowledge of culture-political ethics and their own practice, which they would not otherwise have gained through ordinary teaching, and they had gained an insight into their own (lack of) knowledge about Rethink and ECoC. The course gave the students a specific approach to Rethink 2017 and showed them that they can contribute with something useful: They can actually help to "quality assure" the European Capital of Culture 2017.
In the final evaluation the students stated that the whole course had been intensive and demanding, but very instructive.
They also pointed out, however, that the Rethink 2017 case course had perhaps taken up too much of the total Culture 2 course programme as a whole. It was suggested, for instance, that we next year consider
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