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.
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.
ACPA has two programmes for motivated and highly talented students: Practicum Musicae, a music programme at the Royal Conservatoire, and Practicum Artium, a visual arts programme at the Royal Academy of Art. These programmes are easy to combine with your timetable at Leiden University and offer you the opportunity to develop your talent to a high level.
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.
‘My mom who works as a psychologist, greatly influenced me and at a certain age, I knew I wanted to follow in her footsteps. Studying in English and immersing myself in European culture were also important to me. Leiden, with its high-ranking Psychology programme, seemed perfect. I love the calm environment, the accepting attitude towards different cultures and the fact that everyone bikes everywhere.
Each course here is unique, requiring different study methods and expanding our skill sets. You really learn how to apply your knowledge in various ways. Although I find statistics challenging, it's a crucial part of Psychology.
I hope to do my master’s in Leiden, preferably in Clinical Psychology. I aspire to become a sex therapist because people here are more liberal and understanding about gender and sexuality. I’d love to guide people in their exploration and help international students or expats for whom sexual therapy might feel like a taboo.’
Deeksha Pasupulati
Loves to expand her horizons
