The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
Leiden University and the Royal Academy of Art, Design, Music and Dance in The Hague (the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Arts) founded the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts in December 2001. The Academy aims to bring the arts and academic disciplines together by creating a new programme that does justice to both elements.
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts offers the following possibilities:
Doctorates
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts offers a PhD in the Arts on the basis of combination of artistic and research achievements.
docARTES en PhDArts
Research in and through the arts comes together in the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts.The PhD tracks form the key aspect in music (docARTES) and in the fine arts and design (PhDArts), accessible for artists who allow their artistic development to be explicitly led by a clearly formulated research question. They are supervised by academics and artist-professors. This takes place in an international Graduate School: a research environment including partnerships with Amsterdam, Ghent and Louvain
Read more: www.docartes.be and www.phdarts.eu
Minors
Multi-talented students
A number of students have talents in both the arts and sciences and wish to combine the two. Until then, multi-talented students could not easily combine two degree programmes simultaneously in The Hague and Leiden. Not only is the burden of studying two subjects difficult, there might also be a number of practical problems which have to be addressed. For example, it may be necessary for a student to attend lessons in Leiden at the same time as in The Hague, or an examination in Leiden may fall on the day that work has to be done on a music project in The Hague.
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts will do everything to enable this group of students to follow two programmes simultaneously so that they may complete their studies in less time than previously. It is the task of the Academy to remove the practical obstacles which these students may encounter and to make it possible for both study programmes to be undertaken with the minimum amount of difficulty. Minors offered mainly for Leiden students in 2009-2010 are:
Theory and the practice of creative and performing arts, with two tracks:
- Music Theory, Music Philosophy, Music History
- Performing arts
Sound in the 21st century, with two tracks
- Sonology
- Sound/Noise and Interdisciplinarity
Entrepreneurs in the arts
In this course students learn about the challenges that independently working artists meet, while selling, managing and organizing their work. This artist is an entrepreneur. What does the entrepreneur do? What needs to be done while setting-up your own business? It's not just having a great idea, but also designing a strategy, reaching target groups, dealing with competition and learning how to make money. In this course the students get acquainted with several aspects of business. The business plan is used as a tool to learn about business practices. Together with other students you will write a business plan for a new, fictitious business, preferably in the arts sector.
These are introductory classes that give you the opportunity to learn about business and arts. It can be seen as an introduction to the larger minor Arts and Business. In this optional minor you will learn in greater detail about all main aspects that are also part of Entrepreneurs in the arts.
Contact
Minors/DocARTES:
Tim Soekkha
t.soekkha@koncon.nl
PhdArts:
Tamara de Groot
tdegroot@phdarts.eu