Curriculum 2024-2025

Credit Points (ECTS points) are assigned two times a year, at the end of each semester and before the presentations. Each credit point represents 28 hours of ‘study load’. Students (both Bachelors and Masters) should earn a total of 60 credit points per year. Part of the courses are obligatory, other courses can be chosen regarding certain rules and besides that there are a number of credit points for elective courses or alternative study related activities (this is called the individual study trajectory (IST) or portfolio). Obtaining IST points is not mandatory in B1, but allowed and encouraged.

Credit points for participation in courses, MediaTechnology courses, KABK and KC courses are assigned on the basis of the evaluations given by the teachers of those courses.

The credit points for the individual study trajectory are assigned on the basis of written reports or other forms of project documentation. The student is expected to check beforehand with their coach whether the activity is applicable for IST. Afterwards, the IST report is evaluated by the coach and the head of department.

* The ‘ArtScience Courses of Choice’ in the curriculum can be chosen from all the courses offered by the department (or in collaboration with KC/KABK) that are mentioned in the Course Descriptions (including those in the Exchange Weeks with Sonology and Composition). The student is required to follow enough courses to obtain the amount of ECTS as mentioned in the Curriculum of their year of study. Eventually, other courses within KC/KABK and MediaTechnology (Leiden University) can alternatively be taken, but only after prior approval by coach or head of department and to a maximum of 6 ECTS. Courses part of the CASS Exchange Weeks count as normal ArtScience courses.

ArtScience B1 Curriculum
ArtScience B2 Curriculum
ArtScience B3 Curriculum
ArtScience B4 Curriculum
ArtScience M1 Curriculum
ArtScience M2 Curriculum

Curriculum Handbook Bachelor (in preparation)
Curriculum Handbook Master (download PDF)

ArtScience B1 Curriculum ECTS
ArtScience Courses of Choice* 2
Collecting Observations 2
Excursion Ars Electronica 1
Introduction to Electronics 1
Introduction to Programming 4
Introduction to Studio Techniques 1
Int(r)o Projection 2
Lighting Design as/for Performance 2
MetaMedia 2
New Arts & Music Theory (Semester 1+2) 3
Quick & Dirty 2
SoundWorlds 1 4
The ArtScience Context 1
The ‘Other’ Senses 2
IST 4
B1-Meetings (Semester 1+2) 4
Semester 1 Presentation 8
Semester 2 Presentation (Propaedeutic Exam) 15
Total 60

ArtScience B2 Curriculum ECTS
ArtScience Courses of Choice* 20
Light – Space – Perception 2
IST 11
B2-Meetings (Semester 1+2) 4
Semester 1 Presentation 8
Semester 2 Presentation 15
Total 60

ArtScience B3 Curriculum ECTS
ArtScience Courses of Choice* 16
Excursion 1
Getting Real: how to present yourself within the art world 2
Introduction Research and Writing Skills 2
IST 12
B3-Meetings (Semester 1+2) 4
Semester 1 Presentation 8
Semester 2 Presentation 15
Total 60

ArtScience B4 Curriculum ECTS
ArtScience Courses of Choice* 10
IST 13
B4-Meetings (Semester 1+2) 4
Bachelor Thesis 8
Semester 1 Presentation 8
Preview Exam 2
Semester 2 Presentation (Bachelor Final Presentation) 15
Total 60

ArtScience M1 Curriculum ECTS
ArtScience Courses of Choice* 16
Advanced Research and Writing Skills 2
Excursion Ars Electronica 1
Introduction to Studio Techniques 1
The ArtScience Context 1
IST 10
M1/M2-Meetings (Semester 1+2) 6
Semester 1 Presentation 8
Semester 2 Presentation 15
Total 60

ArtScience M2 Curriculum ECTS
ArtScience Courses of Choice* 8
IST 13
M1/M2-Meetings (Semester 1+2) 6
Master Thesis 8
Semester 1 Presentation 8
Preview Exam 2
Semester 2 Presentation (Master Final Presentation) 15
Total 60

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