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Degree Programme in Fine Arts

Degree:
Bachelor of Culture and Arts

Credits:
240 ects

Bachelor of Culture and Arts, Fine Arts, 2025
Code
(FF25-FA)
Bachelor of Culture and Arts, Fine Arts, 2023
Code
(FF23-FA)
Bachelor of Culture and Arts, Fine Arts, 2021
Code
(FF21-FA)
Enrollment

02.12.2025 - 31.12.2025

Timing

12.01.2026 - 31.07.2026

Number of ECTS credits allocated

3 cr

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Jakobstad, Köpmansgatan 10

Teaching languages
  • English
Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Fine Arts
Teachers
  • Felice Hapetzeder
  • Fine Arts Virtuell
Teacher in charge

Felice Hapetzeder

Groups
  • FA25H-J
    Fine Arts, 2025, blended studies

Objective

The learning goals of the study period (course)
After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• Have started developing their unique personal voice and style in writing, complementing and enhancing their visual art practice.
• Have the knowledge to implement critical thinking and analytical skills by engaging in the critique of their own and others' written texts connected to their art.
• Have strengthened their communication skills, effectively conveying their artistic vision and ideas to a broader audience.
• Have fostered interdisciplinary skills by integrating creative writing with visual arts, to explore and express their creativity in multiple forms.

Content

Group projects and individual work

Teaching methods

The learning goals of the study period (course)
After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• Have started developing their unique personal voice and style in writing, complementing and enhancing their visual art practice.
• Have the knowledge to implement critical thinking and analytical skills by engaging in the critique of their own and others' written texts connected to their art.
• Have strengthened their communication skills, effectively conveying their artistic vision and ideas to a broader audience.
• Have fostered interdisciplinary skills by integrating creative writing with visual arts, to explore and express their creativity in multiple forms.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student meets the expectations of the course competences.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student meets the expectations of the course competences.

Assessment methods and criteria

The student meets the expectations of the course competences.

Qualifications

None

Enrollment

15.06.2025 - 31.07.2025

Timing

01.08.2025 - 25.12.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

3 cr

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Jakobstad, Köpmansgatan 10

Teaching languages
  • English
Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Fine Arts
Teachers
  • Felice Hapetzeder
  • Fine Arts Virtuell
Groups
  • FA25H-J
    Fine Arts, 2025, blended studies

Objective

The learning goals of the study period (course)
After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• be able to define and identify with the professional role of the artist
• have an understanding of business ownership and entrepreneurship
• have a understanding of the financing systems within the creative industries

Content

Entrepreneurship for artists

Teaching methods

Competence objectives of the study unit
The learning goals of the study period (course)
After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• be able to define and identify with the professional role of the artist
• have an understanding of business ownership and entrepreneurship
• have a understanding of the financing systems within the creative industries

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student meets the expectations of the course competences.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student meets the expectations of the course competences.

Qualifications

None

Enrollment

02.12.2025 - 31.12.2025

Timing

12.01.2026 - 31.07.2026

Number of ECTS credits allocated

6 cr

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Jakobstad, Köpmansgatan 10

Teaching languages
  • English
Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Fine Arts
Teachers
  • Felice Hapetzeder
  • Fine Arts Virtuell
Teacher in charge

Felice Hapetzeder

Groups
  • FA25H-J
    Fine Arts, 2025, blended studies

Objective

The learning goals of the study period (course)
After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• be able to define and identify with the professional role of the artist
• have an understanding of business ownership and entrepreneurship
• have a understanding of the financing systems within the creative industries

Content

Entrepreneurship for artists

Teaching methods

After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• be able to define and identify with the professional role of the artist
• have an understanding of business ownership and entrepreneurship
• have a understanding of the financing systems within the creative industries

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The students meets the expectations in the course competences.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student meets the expectations of the course competences.

Assessment methods and criteria

The students meets the expectations in the course competences.

Qualifications

Entrepreneurship 1

Enrollment

02.12.2025 - 31.12.2025

Timing

12.01.2026 - 31.07.2026

Number of ECTS credits allocated

6 cr

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Jakobstad, Köpmansgatan 10

Teaching languages
  • English
Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Fine Arts
Teachers
  • Felice Hapetzeder
Teacher in charge

Felice Hapetzeder

Groups
  • FA25H-J
    Fine Arts, 2025, blended studies

Objective

The learning goals of the study period (course)
After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• be experienced with visual composition for moving images
• understand the importance and qualities of sound in moving images
• have created a short narrative film
Prerequisites: None
Contents of this study period (course)
Lectures, group projects and individual work.

Content

Lectures, group projects and individual work

Teaching methods

The learning goals of the study period (course)
After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• be experienced with visual composition for moving images
• understand the importance and qualities of sound in moving images
• have created a short abstract, poetic or narrative work sample
Prerequisites: None
Contents of this study period (course)
Lectures, group projects and individual work.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The students meets the expectations in the course competences.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Grade 1 (pass)
The student
- participates in the course according to the mandatory attendance requirements
- completes assignments and receives a passing grade
- understand the basic contents of the course of studies

***

Grade 2 (fair)
The student
- participates in the course
- completes assignments in an independent manner
- hands in the required assignments
- understand the contents of the course of studies
- gathers information independently

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Grade 3 (good)
The student
- actively participates in the course
- completes assignments independently and in a manner that shows initiative
- hands in the required assignments on time
- understand the contents of the course of studies
- gathers information independently

***

Grade 4 (very good)
The student
- actively participates in the course
- completes assignments independently and in a manner that shows initiative
- hands in the required assignments on time
- understand the contents of the course of studies and applies the knowledge in their own work
-

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Grade 5 (excellent)
The student
- actively participates in the course
- completes assignments professionally, independently and in a manner that shows initiative
- hands in the required assignments on time
- understand the contents of the course of studies and applies the knowledge in their own work
- gathers information independently and applies the knowledge in their own work
- demonstrates the development of their own professional identity

Qualifications

None

Enrollment

15.06.2025 - 31.07.2025

Timing

01.08.2025 - 31.12.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

3 cr

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Jakobstad, Köpmansgatan 10

Teaching languages
  • English
Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Fine Arts
Teachers
  • Felice Hapetzeder
  • Fine Arts Virtuell
Groups
  • FA25H-J
    Fine Arts, 2025, blended studies

Objective

After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• have an overview of the main questions of philosophy throughout history
• be able to recount some philosophical lines of inquiry from Plato to the present day
Prerequisites: None
Contents of this study period (course)
Lectures and assignments

Content

After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• have an overview of the main questions of philosophy throughout history
• be able to recount some philosophical lines of inquiry from Plato to the present day
Prerequisites: None
Contents of this study period (course)
Lectures and assignments

Teaching methods

The learning goals of the study period (course)
After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• have an overview of the main questions of philosophy throughout history
• be able to recount some philosophical lines of inquiry from Plato to the present day
Prerequisites: None

Contents of this study period (course)
Lectures and assignments

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student meets the expectations of the course competences.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student meet the expectations of the course competences.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student meet the expectations of the course competences.

Qualifications

None

Enrollment

15.06.2025 - 31.07.2025

Timing

01.08.2025 - 31.12.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

3 cr

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Jakobstad, Köpmansgatan 10

Teaching languages
  • English
Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Fine Arts
Teachers
  • Felice Hapetzeder
  • Fine Arts Virtuell
Groups
  • FA25H-J
    Fine Arts, 2025, blended studies

Objective

The learning goals of the study period (course)
After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• understand ethics and values, in relation to their own artistic practice

Prerequisites: None
Contents of this study period (course)
Lectures, group projects and individual work.

Content

Lectures, group projects and individual work

Teaching methods

The learning goals of the study period (course)
After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• understand ethics and values, in relation to their own artistic practice

Prerequisites: Philosophy 1
Contents of this study period (course)
Lectures, group projects and individual work.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student meets the expectations of the course competences

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected

Qualifications

Philosophy 1

Enrollment

15.06.2025 - 31.07.2025

Timing

01.08.2025 - 31.12.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

9 cr

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Jakobstad, Köpmansgatan 10

Teaching languages
  • English
Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Fine Arts
Teachers
  • Felice Hapetzeder
  • Fine Arts Virtuell
Groups
  • FA25H-J
    Fine Arts, 2025, blended studies

Objective

The learning goals of the study period (course)
After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• understand the need of developing an individual expression
• be able to plan a simple visual project
• be able to easily verbalise ideas and photographic images
Prerequisites: None
Contents of this study period (course)
The student deepens their own personal expression through photography, supervision, and discussions

Content

We deepen our own personal expression through photography, supervision and discussions.

Teaching methods

The learning goals of the study period (course)
After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• understand the need of developing an individual expression
• be able to plan a simple visual project
• be able to easily verbalise ideas and photographic images

Prerequisites: None
Contents of this study period (course)
The student deepens their own personal expression through photography, supervision, and discussions

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student meets the expectations of the course competences.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The students meets the expectations in the course competences.

Qualifications

None

Enrollment

02.12.2025 - 31.12.2025

Timing

12.01.2026 - 31.07.2026

Number of ECTS credits allocated

6 cr

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Jakobstad, Köpmansgatan 10

Teaching languages
  • English
Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Fine Arts
Teachers
  • Felice Hapetzeder
  • Fine Arts Virtuell
Teacher in charge

Felice Hapetzeder

Groups
  • FA25H-J
    Fine Arts, 2025, blended studies

Objective

The learning goals of the study period (course)
After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• have immersed themselves in developing their own creative expression
• be able to plan a complex visual project
• verbalise and relate their ideas and images to a theoretical framework
Prerequisites: Photographic expression 1
Contents of this study period (course)
The students deepens their own personal expression through photography, supervision, and discussions

Content

We deepen our own personal expression through photography, supervision and discussions.

Teaching methods

After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• understand the need of developing an individual expression
• be able to plan a simple visual project
• be able to easily verbalise ideas and thoughts about photographic images
Prerequisites: None
Contents of this study period (course)
The student deepens their own personal expression through photography, supervision, and discussions

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The students meets the expectations in the course competences.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student meets the expectations of the course competences.

Qualifications

None

Enrollment

15.06.2025 - 31.08.2025

Timing

01.09.2025 - 30.12.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

9 cr

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Jakobstad, Köpmansgatan 10

Teaching languages
  • English
Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Fine Arts
Teachers
  • Felice Hapetzeder
Groups
  • FA25H-J
    Fine Arts, 2025, blended studies

Objective

The learning goals of the study period (course)
After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• have a first insight into professional life as an artist
• have a deeper understanding of how to use experiences from work practice as way to find new opportunities for the rest of their studies
• understand the importance of writing a report about their experiences
• see a clear connection between the study programme, their own artistic expression, and practical real life work in the field

Content

Work or internship outside of the university setting.

Teaching methods

Competence objectives of the study unit
The learning goals of the study period (course)
After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• have a first insight into professional life as an artist
• have a deeper understanding of how to use experiences from work practice as way to find new opportunities for the rest of their studies
• understand the importance of writing a report about their experiences
• see a clear connection between the study programme, their own artistic expression, and practical real life work in the field

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

See separate framework for evaluation

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student meets the expectations of the course competences.

Qualifications

No prior prerequisites

Enrollment

02.12.2025 - 31.12.2025

Timing

01.01.2026 - 31.07.2026

Number of ECTS credits allocated

9 cr

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Jakobstad, Köpmansgatan 10

Teaching languages
  • English
Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Fine Arts
Teachers
  • Felice Hapetzeder
Groups
  • FA25H-J
    Fine Arts, 2025, blended studies

Objective

The learning goals of the study period (course)
After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• have a deepened insight into professional life as an artist
• have a deeper understanding of how to use experiences from work practice as way to find new opportunities for the rest of their studies
• understand the importance of writing a report about their experiences
• see a clear connection between the study programme, their own artistic expression, and practical real life work in the field

Content

Work or internship outside of the university setting.

Teaching methods

After completing this course, the student is expected to:
• have a deepened insight into professional life as an artist
• have a deeper understanding of how to use experiences from work practice as way to find new opportunities for the rest of their studies
• understand the importance of writing a report about their experiences
• see a clear connection between the study programme, their own artistic expression, and practical real life work in the field

Employer connections

Work or internship outside of the university setting.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The student meets the expectations of the course competences.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

See separate framework for evaluation

Assessment methods and criteria

The student meets the expectations of the course competences.

Qualifications

Work Practice 1