Arts and academics: 
the best of both worlds!

Are you looking for an extra challenge in your studies? Do you have a passion for visual art, music or design? You can enrich and deepen your studies at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA). The arts and academics can complement, challenge and inspire each other. Via the ACPA, you have several options to combine your academic studies with the fields of visual arts, design or music.

Electives

The APCA offers electives covering different disciplines in art and music. Courses such as Music Cognition, Music – Philosophy – Politics, Music x Technology, and Popular and Global Music link music to philosophy, psychology, rhetoric and even artificial intelligence. Are you more into visual arts and performance arts? In electives such as The Art of Public Speaking, An Introduction to Modern Political Cinema, and Performance Arts – Public Sphere – Post-Political?, you are introduced to historical techniques of public speaking, you analyse cultural-political representation through cinema, and you learn about the political philosophy of modernist music theatre.

Minors

In the Minor in Music Studies you learn to think about music in a different way. Music is more than just an art form, more than entertainment. What are the different roles of music within our society? And how does music influence politics, media and technology, for instance? In this minor, theory and practice come together.

The Minor in Creative Strategies for a Society in Change makes a connection between gaining insight into creative processes and exploring social issues that characterise our time. The perspective is that of the visual arts disciplines, including film and design. The thematic emphasis is on broad social developments and urgencies that involve a multitude of topics, such as migration, climate change, and anti-racist struggles.

Music and visual arts programme

The Minor in Creative Strategies for a Society in Change makes a connection between gaining insight into creative processes and exploring social issues that characterise our time. The perspective is that of the visual arts disciplines, including film and design. The thematic emphasis is on broad social developments and urgencies that involve a multitude of topics, such as migration, climate change, and anti-racist struggles.