Program Overview

Course Overview

The Bachelor Thesis course, TBBY2000, is a third-year course, level III, that runs over 3 semesters. The workload is distributed as follows:

• Introduction and preparation: 2.5 ECT (Spring)
• Practical research, sources, and documentation of craft processes: 15 ECT (Autumn)
• Assembling and presenting the project: 5 ECT (Spring)

Course Details

• Credits: 22.5
• Level: Third-year courses, level III
• Course start: Autumn 2025
• Duration: 2 semesters
• Language of instruction: Norwegian
• Location: Trondheim
• Examination arrangement: Aggregate score

About the Course

The course involves a self-chosen specialization task in building new on a traditional professional basis, where students develop their practice in carpentry, bar construction, or carpentry. Students document their own professional development, the process of finding and selecting source material, and testing of different methods for building new in a traditional context.

Learning Outcome

Knowledge

• The candidate is familiar with methods for traditional analysis

Skills

• The candidate can formulate relevant issues within traditional building crafts
• The candidate can develop their own practical craft skills
• The candidate can apply and critically apply source material
• The candidate can document objects and processes and make choices according to academic guidelines

General Competence

• The candidate can, in a suitable communication method, present and discuss their own development work and place the work in a traditional professional context
• The candidate can assess the quality of their own and others' knowledge production and can make use of these results in their professional practice

Learning Methods and Activities

The assignment is performed as group work (max. 3 students in one group) but can be made as an individual assignment by agreement. All forms of work must be supervised, with presentations of status in own project and reflections on own and others' work.

Evaluation

Assessment

• Practical research: 50%
• Assignment: 30%
• Oral presentation of assignment and exercise: 20%

The course ends with a practical work test with a graded grade. In the event of a valid absence, a practical work test must be taken by a new deadline by agreement with the course coordinator. In the event of failure, invalid absence, or voluntary repetition, a new test may be taken earliest at the next examination.

Specific Conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required: Traditional Building Craft (FTTRADBYGG)

Required Previous Knowledge

To begin a bachelor's thesis, the student must be registered as a student in the 6th semester of the study traditional building crafts and have passed at least 60 credits in their (individual) study plan. Exceptions from this can be processed upon application.

Course Materials

Lectures and literature in the introductory course given in the course. Relevant tools and materials for the exercise and literature the student finds necessary.

Credit Reductions

• Course code: TBBY4003
• Reduction: 22.5 sp
• From: Autumn 2024 This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject Areas

• Architectural Design, History and Technology

Department with Academic Responsibility

Department of Architecture and Technology