University of Arts Berlin
| Berlin University of the Arts is one of the largest and most diversified universities of the arts in the world. The teaching offered mostly in traditional formats in the four colleges of Fine Arts, Architecture, Media and Design, Music and Performing Arts as well as at the Central Institute for Continued Education/ Berlin Career College as well as the inter-University centres for Dance (HZT) and Jazz (JIB) encompasses the full spectrum of the arts and related academic studies in more than 70 courses. With the right to confer doctorates and post-doctoral qualifications, Berlin University of the Arts is also one of the few art colleges in Germany with full university status. Teachers in art and music are also educated at Berlin University of the Arts, the only university in Berlin where these subjects can be studied. |
| Acting | The Acting study programme focuses on contemporary theatre practices. All areas of instruction – acting and performance, body and movement, breath-voiceelocution-singing, theatre studies and dramaturgy – aim to train performers to produce creative artistic work while retaining an awareness of their craft and intellectual independence in diverse types of performance practice. |
| Art and Media | The study programme Art and Media is the only course at the UdK Berlin offering networked artistic teaching in the time-based media |
| Art in Context | By “Art in Context” we understand an expanded art practice oriented on artistic as well as scientific questions with a view to current discourse and practices, and to their social, aesthetic, media and political conditions. |
| Artistic Training/Instruments | A significant component of the College of Music is artistic instrumental instruction. It covers all orchestral instruments, piano, organ, plucked string instruments and historical keyboard instruments |
| Berlin Summer University of the Arts | The Berlin Summer University of the Arts is home to a multitude of workshops and courses incorporating all disciplines of the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin): Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Design, and Music. |
| Certificate Courses | Berlin Career College offers continuing education in the inspiring setting of Berlin University of the Arts. Here, artists, creatives and art lovers can find stimulus for their personal and professional development in certificate courses such as Curating, Creating Dance in Art and Education, Music Therapy, Dramatic Storytelling and Exhibition Design. |
| Church Music | The Institute of Church Music is the only institute of training for Catholic and Protestant church musicians in Berlin and Brandenburg. |
| Communication in Social and Economic Contexts | Various forms of mass communication – in innumerable formats – struggle for public attention in our media society. Students of “Communication in Social and Economic Contexts” (GWK) learn how to plan communication strategies that can hold their own in face of this competition. |
| Composition | Studies in musical composition continue to play an important role in the history of the Berlin University of the Arts. |
| Conducting | The International Conducting Academy Berlin (ICAB) at UdK Berlin offers a unique studying opportunity for highly gifted aspiring conductors: the Master in Conducting and the Advanced Professional Training for Conductors. |
| Costume Design | The Bachelor and Masters courses in Costume Design at the UdK Berlin are among the few of their kind in Europe. Costume Design is telling stories about people. Its focus is on the human, the body, and its appearance. |
| Creative Writing for the Stage | This study programme focuses on three areas: creative writing for the stage, dramatic practice and analytical dramaturgy. After two years of basic study and an intermediate examination students in the programme continue with a further two years of advanced study in which audio drama and screenplays are also covered |
| Cultural Journalism (Master of Arts) | In two years, this compact study programme will prepare you for work as a journalist in and for cultural editorial departments. |
| Design (Product Design, Fashion Design) | As a creative response to social and technological developments, product and fashion design influences every sphere of life. |
| Design and Computation | |
| Early Music | In a unique opportunity in Berlin, the Institute for Artistic Training in Early Music and Historic Performance |
| Fine Arts | In the study programme Fine Arts, students become acquainted with diverse means of artistic expression and learn to develop their own artistic positions. |
| Jazz | The Jazz-Institute Berlin (JIB) emerged from cooperation between the College of Music “Hanns Eisler” Berlin and Berlin University of the Arts |
| KlangKunstBühne | KlangKunstBühne is a continuing education program offered by Universität der Künste (University of the Arts) Berlin. It is aimed at all artistic disciplines. |
| Music Education | The study course “Music Education” provides the necessary qualification for these who want to become teacher in music schools, other public institutions and in the private sector. |
| Music Therapy (Extra-occupational Master’s Course) | Praxis, research and teaching cooperate closely in the master’s course in music therapy. Contacts to national and international music therapy networks are particularly cultivated. |
| Musical/Show | The Berlin University of the Art’s degree programme Musical/Show prepares actors who sing and dance for careers on the German-speaking musical stage. |
| Organ/Organ Improvisation | The study programme Artistic Training/Instruments includes the area of keyboard instruments: piano, organ, organ improvisation and as well historical keyboard instruments. |
| Piano | |
| Sound Engineering | The course in sound engineering brings together a wide range of musical and technical aspects. Students learn about music history, theory of musical form, instrumentation and score-reading and study set works and different musical styles. |
| Sound Studies | Welcome to the website of the Master’s program Sound Studies at the UdK´s Berlin Career College offered to all persons interested in sound. |
| Sound Studies and Sonic Arts | We pursue a truly interdisciplinary approach to the world of sound, where theoretical study and creative work interrelate. Think with your ears. Make listening your culture. |
| Stage Design | This course prepares students for the job of set designer with a focus on the world of theatre. Within the course it is possible to explore the areas of film, video, media, Fine Arts, performance and installation |
| Studying Dance and Choreography at the HZT Berlin | The outstanding feature of the three study programmes at the HZT Berlin – the Bachelor programme Dance, Context, Choreography and the Master programmes Solo/Dance/Authorship and Choreography – is their close combination of academic training and professional artistic practice; the courses are experimental in orientation and link artistic teaching with the teaching of scientific principles, accompanied by professional practice. |
| Teacher Training Programmes Fine Arts | Introducing children and young people to music and providing support and encouragement as they develop their artistic abilities is fundamental to the development of their creative personalities |
| Teacher Training Programmes Music | |
| Theatre Education/Drama | Theatre Education combines creative, dramatic and didactic elements to create a unique, exciting field of contrasts. The areas covered in the Master’s programme in Theatre Education and the supplemental course in Drama do full justice to this integrated concept |
| Visual Communication | In the course of study Visual Communication students deal with the planning, realisation and mediation of visual information in two or three dimensions. |
| Voice/Opera | Within this period you can apply for the upcoming winter semester in the study programs Bachelor’s degree in Voice and Opera and Master’s degree in Opera |
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