Edu­ca­tio­nal Sci­ence in Mu­sic

The Mas­ter's pro­gram­me is sci­en­ti­fi­cal­ly ori­en­ted: Mu­sic pe­dago­gi­cal theo­ry for­ma­ti­on and prac­ti­cal fields as well as ap­proa­ches of em­pi­ri­cal so­ci­al re­se­arch are in­crea­singly in­ter­con­nec­ted in the cour­se of four se­mes­ters. In the third and fourth se­mes­ters, fo­cal points with mu­sic-psy­cho­lo­gi­cal, -so­cio­lo­gi­cal and edu­ca­tio­nal-sci­en­ti­fic con­tents can be in­di­vi­dual­ly selec­ted.

Em­pi­ri­cal re­se­arch me­thods for your own sci­en­ti­fic work

The aim of all are­as of stu­dy and elec­tive spe­cia­li­sa­ti­ons is to en­ab­le stu­dents to car­ry out in­de­pen­dent sci­en­ti­fic work and to ap­p­ly em­pi­ri­cal re­se­arch me­thods. You will learn to deal with the di­ver­se ba­sic know­ledge from the re­la­ted di­sci­pli­nes (so­cio­lo­gy of mu­sic, psy­cho­lo­gy of lear­ning and de­ve­lop­ment and edu­ca­tio­nal sci­en­ces) and with the in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry cha­rac­ter of the sub­ject of mu­sic edu­ca­ti­on.

You will be in ex­chan­ge with stu­dents and tea­chers from mu­sic, thea­t­re and dance at the HfMDK and gain new per­spec­tives in an im­me­dia­te way.

Di­ver­se ca­re­er paths

Gra­dua­tes of the Mas­ter's pro­gram­me are able to take up cur­rent spe­cia­list to­pics, dis­cuss them sci­en­ti­fi­cal­ly, de­ve­lop them fur­ther and par­ti­ci­pa­te in the re­le­vant spe­cia­list dis­cour­ses. Thus, the Mas­ter's de­gree qua­li­fies stu­dents in par­ti­cu­lar for pro­fes­sio­nal work in aca­de­mic mu­sic edu­ca­ti­on – among other things for a doc­to­ra­te, which is also pos­si­ble at the HfMDK. Di­ver­se ca­re­er paths also open up in re­flec­tive mu­sic me­dia­ting ac­tivi­ties in broad­cas­ting or pu­bli­shing, in the plan­ning and im­ple­men­ta­ti­on of mu­sic edu­ca­ti­on pro­jec­ts as well as in edu­ca­tio­nal and cul­tu­ral po­li­cy ac­tivi­ties.