International semester (MUK-INT)

The faculty deliberately strives for a high international level in order to reflect the professional reality in which the candidates will find themselves after completing their studies. The international profile of the faculty is essential if it is to function in harmony with European higher music and dance education, research, academic and artistic development work.

Planning of the exchange semester starts as early as the autumn of the first academic year for departure the following autumn semester. The purpose of the course is to offer outgoing master's students from the Faculty of Performing Arts an exchange semester where various courses from our partner institutions can be incorporated into the student's programme, and vice versa for incoming students. Primarily, the student will achieve personal development as a performing and co-creating artist during their stay abroad. At the same time, the student will receive impulses from other academic traditions and build new, international networks.

An international semester will give the outgoing student the opportunity for further in-depth study in relation to the original study programme at UiS, but will also provide opportunities for individual specialisation.

During their stay abroad, outgoing students will continue to work on their master's project under supervision. The specific content of the course must support the specialisation in the master's project and is determined in each individual case through a Learning Agreement between the sending and receiving institutions. The head of the study programme approves the content of the learning agreements.

A candidate who has completed and passed a course will have acquired knowledge, skills and general competences that enable them to:

Knowledge

- place their performance activities in an international perspective, recognise and reflect on artistic traditions from different parts of the world and be able to place these in a geographical, historical and stylistic perspective.

- account for expanded perspectives in relation to his/her own role as a performer/creative artist through having spent time at a foreign institution.

- have broad knowledge of the academic field in which the master's project is placed (applies to outgoing students).

Skills and competences

- be part of international networks, manage practical artistic working conditions abroad and strengthen language skills.

- engage in artistic communication in an international environment and engage in relevant performance practice.

- plan and carry out a public performance/work display within the framework of the partner institution.

- demonstrate a deepened and further developed understanding of their own performance knowledge.

General competence

- develop an understanding of another country's culture in general and education in their field in particular.

- reflect on their development and experience as a performer/creative artist through a residency at a foreign institution.

- reflect on the cultural framework under which they have worked and contextualise this in relation to themselves as a performing/creative artist.

It is a requirement that all courses from the first year of the programme are completed and passed in order for students to be granted an exchange. The student must have the necessary knowledge, skills and expertise from the Master's specialisation I and all supporting courses to be able to continue working on the master's project during the stay abroad. Passing all courses in the first year will reduce the chance that potential practical challenges related to different semester times abroad will cause a major delay in the entire study programme. A completed first year will also ensure that the student has the necessary artistic maturity and independence to undertake an exchange semester and achieve the learning outcomes of the course International Semester.

Mandatory work requirements are formulated in the learning agreement that forms the basis for the individual's exchange programme. The student is obliged to follow the compulsory work requirements and comply with the rules in force at the relevant place of study at any given time.

Course teacher(s)

Study Adviser:

Lena Crosby Haug

Course coordinator:

Olaf Eggestad

Study Adviser:

Anne Siri Norland

Work and teaching methods will vary from place to place. Outgoing students follow a study programme at the visiting institution, either by joining an existing programme or by the institution organising a programme specifically for the individual student. It is also possible for UiS students travelling abroad to construct the content of a stay abroad that is not based on an existing institutional collaboration. This programme must then be approved by the faculty management and financed by the individual student.

Individual work depending on the programme at the host institution / own application as specified in the Learning agreement. Incoming students will be assigned a counselling team at UiS, who will follow up the work during the stay abroad. It is desirable that students from UiS travelling to another institution are assigned a supervisor from their host institution.

Teaching languages

English. Possibly other languages.

Not open to private students.

The course description is retrieved from FS (Felles studentsystem). Version 1