Edu­ca­tio­nal Sci­ence in Mu­sic (Mas­ter)

The Mas­ter's pro­gram­me Edu­ca­tio­nal Sci­ence in Mu­sic aims to build ex­per­ti­se for pro­fes­sio­nal mu­sic edu­ca­ti­on in va­rious edu­ca­tio­nal and so­ci­al fields out­si­de of schools and to pro­mo­te the next ge­nera­ti­on of scho­l­ars in the field. It trains stu­dents to con­duct sub­ject-re­la­ted and trans­di­sci­pli­na­ry re­se­arch.

In ad­di­ti­on to mu­si­co­lo­gy and pe­dago­gy, psy­cho­lo­gy (for mu­si­cal lear­ning and de­ve­lop­ment), so­cio­lo­gy and eth­no­lo­gy (for the so­ci­al si­gni­fi­can­ce of mu­sic and mul­ti­cul­tu­ra­lism) are cen­tral re­fe­rence di­sci­pli­nes.

Many cour­ses and pro­jec­ts of the Mas­ter of Edu­ca­tio­nal Sci­ence in Mu­sic take place tog­e­ther with other cour­ses of stu­dy at the HfMDK (among others with the tea­cher trai­ning cour­ses in mu­sic, in­stru­men­tal pe­dago­gy, dance, thea­ter and or­ches­tra ma­nage­ment, church mu­sic).

The fol­lo­wing stu­dents are ad­dres­sed: Stu­dents with a first pro­fes­sio­nal de­gree in the so­ci­al sci­en­ces or hu­ma­nities or in an ar­tis­tic field of stu­dy, a sta­te ex­ami­na­ti­on for a tea­ching pro­fes­si­on (pre­fer­a­b­ly in mu­sic) or a first pro­fes­sio­nal de­gree in ano­t­her field of stu­dy who wish to en­ga­ge in mu­sic prac­tice and train in mu­sic edu­ca­ti­on as a sci­en­ti­fic di­sci­pli­ne.

Writ­ten ap­p­li­ca­ti­ons are ac­cep­ted from Oc­to­ber 1 through De­cem­ber 1 for the fol­lo­wing sum­mer se­mes­ter and from Fe­bru­a­ry 1 through June 1 for the fol­lo­wing win­ter se­mes­ter.

The first de­gree cer­ti­fi­ca­te does not have to be avail­ab­le by the ap­p­li­ca­ti­on dead­line, but pro­of that at least 150 credit points have al­rea­dy been ear­ned and that the de­gree will be avail­ab­le at the be­gin­ning of the win­ter se­mes­ter.

Ap­p­li­ca­ti­on do­cu­ments

In ad­di­ti­on to the do­cu­ments men­tio­ned in the do­cu­ment with the no­tes on the ap­p­li­ca­ti­on pro­ce­du­re, the fol­lo­wing do­cu­ments must also be sub­mit­ted for ap­p­li­ca­ti­ons to the Mas­ter's pro­gram in Mu­sic Edu­ca­ti­on:

• Es­say of 3-5 pa­ges on one's mu­si­cal bio­gra­phy, sho­wing sub­ject in­te­rest, mu­sic prac­tice edu­ca­ti­on and ex­pe­ri­en­ces, ex­pe­ri­en­ces in pe­dago­gi­cal re­fe­rence, and skills of re­flec­tion and self-di­stan­cing.
• Port­fo­lio with evi­dence of the type and du­ra­ti­on of mu­si­cal edu­ca­ti­on (in­stru­men­tal, vo­cal, dance les­sons), mu­sic pe­dago­gi­cal prac­tice (choir mem­bership, band and en­sem­ble play­ing/lea­ding, song­wri­ting, etc.), pe­dago­gi­cal qua­li­fi­ca­ti­ons, pro­ject work, and more.

Sui­ta­bi­li­ty as­sess­ment

The ap­ti­tu­de test ta­kes place in an in­ter­view ba­sed on the es­say about the ap­p­li­can­t's mu­si­cal bio­gra­phy. It ta­kes place bet­ween the ap­p­li­cant, the head of the stu­dy pro­gram and ano­t­her ex­pert as as­ses­sor. The exact date will be com­mu­ni­ca­ted to the in­vi­tees by mail af­ter the ap­p­li­ca­ti­on dead­line for the sum­mer se­mes­ter by the end of De­cem­ber and for the win­ter se­mes­ter by the end of June. The in­ter­views take place at the end of Ja­nu­a­ry or in mid-July.

The Stu­dy and Ex­ami­na­ti­on Re­gu­la­ti­ons (SPO) set out the frame­work con­di­ti­ons and re­gu­la­ti­ons for your stu­dies. They ap­p­ly tog­e­ther with the Ge­ne­ral Re­gu­la­ti­ons (for Ba­che­lor's and Mas­ter's de­gree pro­gram­mes) or the SPoL (for tea­cher trai­ning de­gree pro­gram­mes). All ver­si­ons of the SPO for your de­gree pro­gram­me (in­clu­ding ear­lier ver­si­ons for stu­dents of pre­vious aca­de­mic ye­ars) can be found at Ex­ami­na­ti­ons.