TRTE17 · 6 credits · Basic level (G1N) · Grafisk design och kommunikation
Visual Culture and Design History
Active · next start HT 2026
90%
passed the latest ordinary exam
HEM1 · 31 Oct 2025 · 63 students
91%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
HEM1 · 318 students
29%
Harder than 29% of courses at basic level
Compared with 874 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 137 students.
Part of 1 programme
Exam
HEM1 Take-home assignment
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Ordinary exams
91% passed · 318 students
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Re-exams
73% passed · 15 students
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- Pass the re-exam: 73% (15 students), compared with 91% (318 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 47% (333 students)
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Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
UPG3 Quiz
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Main rounds
100% passed · 316 students
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Later rounds
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Hand-in or lab
UPG2 Assignments
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Main rounds
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Later rounds
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About the course
Aim
The aim of the course is to enable students to acquire a general knowledge, historical as well as theoretical, of Design and Visual Culture in the Western Society. The goal is to create a basic understanding of Visual Communication and Visual Culture from the years 1900 until today. After having completed the course, the students should:
- Have acquired a general knowledge of the Western Visual Culture from about 1900 and onwards,
- Have developed the ability to describe images and design products in speech as well as in writing,
- Have achieved the ability to an argumentative reasoning and critically reflection on social norms and critical aspects regarding the Western tradition of images, in speech as well as in writing.
Content
The course covers the Image Cultures of the 2000 Century, where design and Norm Criticism are important issues. The theoretical framework includes:
- Visual culture/Art Science
- Design History
- Norm Criticism
- Examiner
- Gary Svensson
- Scheduled hours
- 48 h
- Main field of study
- Grafisk design och kommunikation