Jenny Lexander

Art History C, Uppsala University. 30 credits

Bachelor's level

The course includes three sub-courses, each of which offers different aspects of studies and exercises in the theories and methods of art science.

* Theory and method
* Historical and thematic deepening
* Essay

To interpret, analyze and critically review theoretical texts and different types of source material
have in-depth knowledge of and insight into the theoretical and methodological foundations of the art science subject, as well as historiography.

Skills to be able to discuss and problematize scientific practice and knowledge production in both oral and written form be able to write a research overview of older and newer literature on the subject present and defend their results and critically review art science text.

Evaluation ability and approach within given time frames, complete a scientific essay to think critically, independently and creatively. With scientific accuracy to identify and formulate questions as well as carry out qualified art-scientific analyzes.

Wonderful knowledge that can be applied to Design-, Visual Art- and Academical writing projects.

Responsible department: Department of Art History.

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AI and Design - Concepts and Methods, University of Borås. 15 credits

Bachelor's level

The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and design practice.
The course introduces the development of AI, theoretical concepts, methods, and practical applications of AI in a design context. It also provides basic knowledge about ethical aspects of AI in artistic processes. Knowledge and skills in AI-assisted design tools and software, AI techniques in design such as generative design and natural language processing, and the emerging trends and technologies in AI and design are provided.
1. Knowledge and understanding of basic concepts in AI
2. Knowledge and understanding of AI from a design perspective
3. Basic design methods with tools based on AI
4. The practical applications of AI in design through experimental, digital task-based practical work
5. Skill and ability in the application of design practices using AI tools
6. Critically discuss and evaluate aesthetic and ethical aspects of artistic work with AI tools based on situations, environments, and results.

Established by: Artistic Research and Education Board. Main Field of Study: Textile and Fashion Design.

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Renaissance Perspectives, Uppsala University. 7,5 credits

Master's level

Art History is centrally concerned with a vast array of three-dimensional objects, such as sculptures, and spaces, such as architecture. Digital technologies allow the creation of virtual spaces, which in turn allow us to simulate and compare aspects of a visual culture's three-dimensional time space that cannot be communicated as a single, still image. The third issue, thus, focusses on the third dimension in Art History, and the digital realm that continues to mediate and transform it.

Inspired by the order and beauty inherent by nature has the artist, architect, poet and philosopher Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective.
Wonderful knowledge that can be applied to Design-, Visual Art- and Academical writing projects.

Responsible department: Department of Art History.

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Art History B, Uppsala University. 30 credits

Knowledge of art science theorizing and method, both traditional and newer. The subject's basic questions and working methods. Knowledge of art science theorizing and method, both traditional and newer. The subject's basic questions and working methods.
Independent scientific work in the form of an essay with main focus: Female perspective and interpretation of beauty in The Birth of Venus.
I have always been fascinated by the quiet beauty of the detailed artwork, embraced with its feminine and soft atmosphere. In my Essay, am I intend to question and discuss female beauty and its ideals that interpret within visual images. Also discuss its mathematical perfection, The Golden Ratio in latin: sectio aurea. The Golden section as referred within the field of Art, is considered as the most beautiful in Art and Architecture, it is also to be found everywhere in nature. I have analyzed the poetic stillness and its proportions as interpreted in the picture The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli.
Responsible department: Department of Art History.

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The Mask of Beauty, Uppsala University. 7,5 credits

A basic knowledge of the history of portrait painting and beauty ideals during the period 1500- 1900 and the knowledge of the social and cultural norms and values ​​that have contributed to create different fashions and ideals. To independently and critically carry out and communicate analyzes and interpretations of portrait painting from the above period.

The knowledge and skills the course provides can be used for activities in schools, museums and the media as well as as a basis for further education at advanced level and postgraduate education.
The course is chronologically and thematically structured. Each era is studied from both an art and costume historical perspective. Various thematic questions are asked concerning, for example, the view of the body, gender roles, social hierarchies and identities.

Responsible department: Department of Art History.

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Digital Visual Identity, University of Borås. 7,5 credits

The course aims to provide knowledge and understanding of digital identities in virtual environments such as socialmedia and digital games from a design perspective. The course introduces basic concepts, methods and strategies for creating and analyzing digital identities in virtual environments and in the borderland between virtual and physical environments. The course also provides basic knowledge and skills in critically evaluating digital identities in virtual environments from ethical and aesthetic aspects. The main content of the course is:
* Basic concepts and perspectives within digital identity with a focus on the body and clothes
* Aesthetic strategies and methods for developing digital visual identities from a design perspective
* Practical application of design methods for the artistic creation of digital identities
* Ethical aspects of digital identities based on different situations, environments, and results.

33 sketches finalized, ready to embrace a project...

Established by Artistic Research and Education Board. Main Field of Study, Fashion Design.​

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The Culture and Function of Advertising Images, Uppsala University. 7,5 credits

A deeper understanding of how advertising can be understood and interpreted as well as giving perspective on the role advertising plays in our society. The role of advertising in various visual media such as newspapers, television, film and the internet are discussed.

As for example when it comes to how existing brands, especially by the perfume industry, are useing stars as spokesmodels or representatives to produce utopia and idealized advertising that are seductive, beautiful and alluring. The allure that are visualized are much connected to the way Hollywood has constructed glamour to be associated with qualities as sexually, beauty, wealth, theatricality, notoriety, dynamism and leisure. Further, can be discussed how the close association between cosmetic and Hollywood glamour also has a close connection to the transformation of the female body into an object of desire. How about if we look inwards and towards the nature to get a deeper understanding about beauty?

Responsible department: Department of Art History.

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Saami Culture and Society, Uppsala University. 7,5 credits

The history and cultural history of the Sami as well as their current social conditions. Introduction to Sami literary history. Great emphasis is placed on the distinctive features of Sami culture. The course also provides knowledge of the names, distribution and current conditions of the Uralic peoples and languages. 

One of the most striking features of Sami literature is in fact precisely the authors' versatility, and their way of approaching the subject in an artistic way. It was usually not just one field they worked in - writing, but they can also have other expressions such as visual artists, jockeys, musicians, craftsmen, artisans, and actors.

In the traditional knowledge Árbediehtu is both immaterial and material in nature, it is the relationship between nature-animal-human. Showing consideration for the cycle of our beautiful nature, by taking care of everything with care, reusing, repairing and nurturing. Not to take more than you need. It can be seen as a holistic view, which means that man and the environment must be considered and treated as a whole. The Sami have the same connection to their crafts, made from natural materials in a careful way.

Responsible department: Department of Modern Languages. The Faculty Board of Languages.

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Cultural Heritage and Visual and Narrative Forms of Expression, Uppsala University. 7,5 credits

The course deals with how the past is shaped and how history takes place in it
present, mainly through images such as photographs and images, as well as small
and great stories, but also through other forms of expression, techniques and styles in
different environments and contexts. With cultural heritage processes in focus, how is investigated visual and narrative representations create power relations and hierarchical
orders in society. The impact of cultural heritage through them representations they create are discussed. Also, the inclusion and exclusion of the figures functions, as well as ethical and moral aspects of societal consequences.
You are trained to use ethnographic methods to collect examples and from research literature to critically discuss how different collective notions, which sometimes compete, are created by selection from the past. The course provides an independent and nuanced approach to it visual and narrative forms of cultural expression.

Responsible department: Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology.

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New perspectives on Graeco-Roman Antiquity, University of Gothenburg. 15 credits

An overview of how research on Greco-Roman antiquity has developed both internationally and nationally. Likewise, research from older times is treated in relation to newer research questions, methods and theories, as well as questions about how newer research has contributed in different ways to new knowledge and understanding of a central cultural area in Europe's older history. Furthermore, antiquity is treated as an ideal of style in later times, as well as its importance in the present in the form of, for example, literature, theatre, art, fashion and political ideologies.

This multidisciplinary field are covered by the interest by art historians, archeologists, historians, literary critics, philologists, and specialists in subfields like ancient law, ancient medicine, epigraphy and papyrology. A wide range of diversity on the subject, all influenced by Sarah Pomeroy and her wonderful outcome of work within the field of women in classical antiquity been a clear foundation...

Department of Historical Studies, Humanistically. The main area is the study of Ancient culture and social life.

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History of Dress and Interiors, Uppsala University. 30 credits

The wonderful course provides knowledge of the various ideals that characterized the view of the human body, clothing and interior design during various historical eras. Through studies of the connection between beauty ideals, dress code, acting, consumption, art and interior history, A wide knowledge about the social and cultural norms that marked different cultural-historical environments during the period 1500-1900.

The knowledge and skills the course provides can be used for activities within schools, museums and the media.

The course is laid out chronologically and thematically. Each era is studied from both an art and costume historical perspective. The relationship between body, clothes and interiors is analyzed based on various themes such as the discrepancy between public and private, social hierarchies and power structures, aspects of gender, self-image and identity.

Responsible department: Department of Art History.​

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Japanese Art, Architecture and Visual Culture, Uppsala University. 7,5 credits

The course provides an overview of the history of Japanese art and architecture from early Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples to today's visual art forms and popular cultural phenomena such as manga and anime.

It is bringing up the knowledge of Japanese art, architecture and visual culture as well as being able to describe, analyze and interpret Japanese images and buildings.
The Japanese concept of Ma is something that relates to all aspects of life. It has been described as a pause in time, an interval or emptiness in space. Ma is the fundamental time and space from which life needs to grow.
The word ukiyo-e means pictures of the floating world in Japanese and is an art form that flourished during the Edo period. One of the three main themes in ukiyo-e woodblock prints is beautiful women (bijin), the other two are landscapes and kabuki actors. The focus was to portray the female form, it followed and reflected what was in fashion at the time.  An individual essay task has been written and related to the course material about The Japanese geisha.

Responsible department: Department of Art History.

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Shakespeare and Renaissance Culture, Linnaeus University. 15 credits

William Shakespeare is widely regarded as a brilliant writer and the greatest playwright in English literature with a profound impact of his work on the way we think about relationships between men and women, and gender. He presents them in a very different way by using unconventional imagery in his expressions, he uses metaphors, challenging the traditional image of women in art and literature.

The course provides a basic introduction to William Shakespeare's time and works is provided. Particular emphasis is placed on the differences in perspective between then and now. How and why Shakespeare has become the world's most famous playwright, and how his texts can be understood from an early modern social and literary context. It explains the historical and social context in which Shakespeare's drama and poetry were created, distinguish thematic and formal features of the original texts studied.

The important genre conventions and genre history in the texts is discussed, and relate contemporary critical perspectives on Shakespeare to the approaches that existed in the 16th and 17th centuries. A number of Shakespeare's texts to the time period in which they were created are related, as well as to put the perceptions of Shakespeare at the time in relation to the changed views of later times.

An individual final essay task has been completed and related to the course material: ”Shakespeare´s gender on stage - How the women are depicted within his play"

Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Languages.​

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Academic Writing, Linnaeus University. 7,5 credits

The course develops the knowledge of and skills in scientific writing. Also gain experience in a process-oriented way of working and learn to critically review their own and others' texts. 

Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Department of Swedish Language
Subject group: Swedish/Nordic Languages.

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Writing children´s literature, Linnaeus University. 7,5 credits

The course is artistic creation and introduction to writing for children and young people. The emphasis is on the student's own writing and tasks focused on storytelling techniques that are carried out, also to develop designs for the coherent children's literary text.

The aim of the course is to account for elementary parts of the history, terminology and terminology of children's literature methods. To write short texts in children's literary genres. Use the Swedish language in a correct and creative way in writing.

Determined by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. 
Main area: Creative writing. Subject group: Authorship.

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The picture book and the children's novel, Umeå University. 7,5 credits

The course provides an introduction to the genres, themes and storytelling techniques of the modern picture book and children's novel through close study of a number of works. The focus is on how questions of identity, gender and ethnicity are treated in children's literature. Also discussed the conflicting needs children's literature is expected to satisfy – educational, pedagogical, aesthetic and emancipatory.

What does the world look like in a reference book? What norms are challenged and reproduced in modern picture books? What does the power relationship between children and adults look like in children's literature? What ideas about children and childhood take place in contemporary debates about children's literature?

Responsible department: Department of Culture and Media Studies.

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The History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, Uppsala University. 7,5 credits

The course describe the characteristic forms of garden art and landscape architecture in Europe during different periods from the Middle Ages to the present day and explain how these are related to the garden's different functions at different times and in different contexts. Also, account for different types of garden and landscape facilities and their cultural-historical context.
The course deals with the development of garden art and landscape architecture with a focus on Europe from the Middle Ages to the 20th century with, above all, an art history perspective. In connection with this, questions are also dealt with such as what is a garden and what functions has it had at different times and which professional groups have emerged in the area and influenced its development?

The Renaissance designers have been introducing to us the principles of geometry gardens. The garden took a major shift in directions in the hills of Florence in 15th-century once the enclosed inward-looking garden of middle Age turned outwards to face the world beyond. New ideas of proportions and new perspective embraced by the architects were created with house and garden working together as a single entity, connected to the landscape that had previously been impossible during medieval times. In the gardens arose a time of rebirth and a place for outdoor living where social pleasure and philosophical set that took place. The nature and art could coexist by using newfound rules of mathematics and linear perspective...

​Responsible department: Department of Art History.

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The History of Landscape Imagery, Uppsala University. 7,5 credits

The origin of the western landscape in the late Middle Ages follows its continued development to the present day. The course also deals with how overarching social and cultural phenomena such as urbanization, modernity and the creation of nation-states have affected the perception of landscapes and landscape images. The landscape image as a phenomenon and put in relation to changing uses, in relation to contemporary needs and ideas in culture and society.

One of my favorite artist is Francois Boucher that followed Watteau´s example when creating landscapes and turned to the same source of inspiration by Venetian Cinquecento landscapes, the light and atmosphere was of great studies. The paintings are soft, romantic and very attractive for the eye to study the richness of details in religious painting, mythological subjects, rustic beautiful scenes, landscapes, animals, decorations of monuments and private houses & tapestry models...

Responsible department: Department of Art History.

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Green Roof, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Alnarp. 6 credits

Green roofs have an important role when building a dense green and multifunctional city. However, not all types of vegetation systems work in the same 

way and have different limitations and possibilities. This course takes a broad approach to green roofs. It deals with installation technology, maintenance and selection of system components and the importance this has for the systems' function.  Also a broad approach regarding the green installations, total environmental impact and sustainability as well as its production of different types of ecosystem services. A special focus will be on the importance of vegetation for sustainable stormwater management and the wonders of biodiversity.

My main focus: Biodiversity.

​Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management. Subject: Landscape architecture.

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Work-oriented rehabilitation, Malmö University. 15 credits

Work-oriented rehabilitation is a controversial topic, rehabilitation is found in a current and debated field and knowledge in this subject is in demand in many contexts. Today, it is relevant not least based on questions about what consequences will occur as a result of the Corona pandemic.

The course brings up an overview of what illness, work ability, work environment and rehabilitation can be, as well as current legislation. Here we reflect on the people's own perspective, but also on factors in our living environment - for example the workplace - and on societal factors in general.

The work-oriented rehabilitation is found in a current and debated field, and knowledge in this subject is in demand in many contexts. Today, it is relevant not least based on questions about what consequences will occur as a result of the Corona pandemic.

The knowledge can also be adopted preventively in retreats for wellbeing.

​Faculty of Health and Society. Disability and rehabilitation science.​

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Fashion Sketching & Illustration, University of Borås. 15 credits

To develop an understanding of and proficiency in fashion sketching, production sketching, and illustration as a
tool for artistic interpretation, idea development, and communication in the field of fashion design and all forms creative business in the delicate part of developing section.

The main focus; Technique and manners, Expression and proportion, Materials, Idea development and design method, Product and detail sketch, Compilation of presentation material.
It demonstrates knowledge and understanding of fashion sketching for the development and illustration of ideas in relation to the body. Gives a deeper knowledge of the skill and ability in the artistic creation of various forms, draperies, textile materials and techniques in outline. The understanding of collection construction and visualisation in sketches to accomplish a final collection for production.

A final beautiful couture collection achieved through visualization in sketches and assembly constructions.

Artistic Research and Education Board. 
Main Field of Study (Progressive Specialization): Textile and Fashion Design
Disciplinary Domain: Design.

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Pedagogy I, Stockholm University

Human behavior and social processes. Knowledge about how we learn and develop, about interpersonal relationships and how we interact and communicate.

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Museum Education Course, Stockholm University. 7,5 credits

The course treats the societal role and how the cultural environment can be used as an educational arena.

A cultural theoretical background of museums, involving theories about the social role of museums, concepts about the museum as a physical and virtual learning space, as well as methods of museum education.

The educational impacts of museum exhibitions.

Department of Subject Didactics, Subject didactics.
Belongs to the area of interest: Man, Law, Politics and Society.

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Mindfulness

A course Based on MBSR-program (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) developed by professor Jon Kabat-Zinn, Center for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts.Mindfulness - A course Based on MBSR-program (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) developed by professor Jon Kabat-Zinn, Center for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts.

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Reiki Healing

Reiki is a spiritual healing art with its roots in Japanese origin. The word Reiki comes from the Japanese word (Rei) which means “Universal Life” and (Ki) which means “Energy” Reiki is the life energy that flows through all living things.

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Roses

A course by Michael Marriott.

The rose is exceptional in the plant world. It is easy to argue that it is the most garden worthy of all plants and can be grown in most climates around the world. There is no other plant that has such a close cultural association with us and is used as a symbol in many different ways. Michael Marriott is one of the world’s leading experts on roses and was Head Rosarian at David Austin Roses where he worked for 35 years. 

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The Herb Garden

A course by Dr. Rachel Petheram.

Herbs are beautiful multi-functional plants that are easy to grow and have many beneficial effects on our health and the health of our gardens. They look and taste fantastic and they are an easy and cost-effective way to add interest to our garden and to our diets. They are forgiving tolerant plants that can survive in the most unlikely of containers, and given the right conditions will thrive in the smallest of spaces.

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Ayurveda

Ayurveda is an ancient medical science. The word, ayurveda is composed of two words of Sanskrit, ayur (meaning life) and veda (meaning knowledge).Ayurveda - Ayurveda is an ancient medical science. The word, ayurveda is composed of two words of Sanskrit, ayur (meaning life) and veda (meaning knowledge).​