musik.welt - Cultural Diversity in Musical Education
Part-time continuing education programme
Since 2011, the CWM has been providing application-oriented training for professionals who take up the diversity of musical cultures in their working environment - in daycare centres, schools, city districts, youth centres and concert halls. The part-time degree programme "musik.welt - Cultural Diversity in Music Education" is unique in Germany and responds to current challenges in society. The course is aimed at all professional fields that work with the medium of music.
The heterogeneity of the study group is an integral part of the extra-occupational study programme. For musicians newly arrived in Germany who are interested in studying, the INTEGRA programme (see below) provides orientation to accompany them on their way to the Foundation University of Hildesheim.
Next Start
Next start
The next cohort of "musik.welt - kulturelle Diversität in musikalischer Bildung" of the University of Hildesheim Foundation will start in Wintersemester 2024/25
Standard period of study: 2 years
Application period: 1 March to 1 June 2024
Auditions: June 2024
Start of studies: 15 October 2022 in Hildesheim
Application
March 1st - June 1st 2024
June 2024
The personal appointment will be communicated two weeks in advance
- CV
- Letter of motivation
- Proof of 1 year of professional activity in music/music teaching practice
- University entrance qualification
- Proof of completed undergraduate studies (certified translation of the copy. Degrees from other higher education systems are recognised).
Tuition fees apply. You will receive information on scholarship opportunities from the Foundation of Lower Saxony after successful pre-selection.
Center for World Music
-Bewerbung „musik.welt“-
Stiftung Universität Hildesheim
Universitätsplatz 1
31141 Hildesheim
Morena Piro
Tel: 05121 883 92360
piromo@uni-hildesheim.de
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| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Study period | 4 Semesters (two years) |
| Form | Part-time study programme, starts in winter semester (oct - feb). Lectures take place on four or five weekends per semester, in addition to instrumental lessons. Great importance is attached to independent study and active participation in the learning process. |
The study programme musik.welt - Cultural Diversity in Music Education focuses on the following contents:
- Ethnomusicology
- Music education
- Music and social work
- Project management, self-reflection
- Individual instrumental tuition
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The study programme brings together current contents, methods and research results from the fields of ethnomusicology, music education and social pedagogy in theory and practice. Building on their qualifications and experience gained in previous training and professional activities, students will be enabled to make cultural diversity an object of musical education. By closely linking theory and practice, they will learn to identify the local need for transcultural music education work. According to this, they test mediation offers in a target group-oriented way. The study programme promotes the connection to existing networks of music education and transcultural social work.
Modules
| Module 1 | Music and society |
| Module 2 | Music and target group |
| Module 3 | Music and mediation |
| Module 4 | Music and management |
| Module 5 | Music and body |
| Module 6 | Music and practice |
| Module 7 | Master module |
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The degree programme is aimed at all those who want to gain competences in order to use the integrative power of music in their daily work. The students develop music projects in their field of work, for example in the field of education, culture or social work.
The students acquire tools for planning, implementing and reflecting on intercultural musical education work. Graduates can take on advisory, mentoring and further training tasks as well as project management functions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from a higher education institution belonging to the Bologna signatory states OR
- Equivalent degree from another foreign higher education institution (equivalence is determined according to the standarts of the Central Office for Foreign Education, Secretariat of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany (http://anabin.kmk.org) AND
- At least one and a half years of professional experience in study-relevant fields of activity
It is possible to enroll in musik.welt as a certificate programme. A Bachelor's degree or similar is then not required.
Application documents
- CV
- Letter of motivation
- Proof of 1 year of professional activity in music/music teaching practice
- University entrance qualification
- Proof of completed undergraduate studies (certified translation of the copy. Degrees from other higher education systems are recognised).
Tuition fees apply. You will receive information on scholarship opportunities from the Foundation of Lower Saxony after successful pre-selection.
Deadline
The next study start is in winter semester 2022/2023 (Oct 2022). Application period starts in March 2022.
Selection
The numbers of university places are limited. They are allocated according to an internal selection procedure.
If all formal admission requirements are met, applicants receive an invitation to the aptitude test in Hildesheim. It comprises individual and group interviews and artistic presentations that examine pedagogical, scientific and artistic aptitudes. For this purpose, the applicant must prepare an instrumentally accompanied or unaccompanied piece of music and a vocal piece of his/her own choice.
Admitted applicants receive written notification of admission and must declare their acceptance of the place in writing by the deadline.
The University of Hildesheim charges tuition fees for participation in the continuing education programme musik.welt.
Semester fees are also charged. The Deutschlandstipendium provides support with counter-financing by the Foundation of Lower Saxony. We are very pleased that the Foundation of Lower Saxony is supporting 22 scholarship holders in the current study group with the counter-financing of the Deutschlandstipendium. If you have any questions about costs and funding, the study programme coordinator Morena Piro can help.
