During the program's three years, you will develop your skills in dance by working with a variety of dance and movement practices, styles and forms of expression. You will practice dance in relation to both educational and creative processes, through various didactic and choreographic methods and frameworks. You also have the opportunity to immerse yourself in one or more dance genres: street, jazz, modern and contemporary dance, folk dance or classical ballet.

Practice and theory are interwoven throughout all courses through analysis, discussion and reflection. You get to practically explore, reflect on, discuss, critically review and write about dance, choreography, pedagogy and the role of dance in society. A norm-critical and intersectional perspective runs like a red thread through the education.

You can work both individually and in groups, through both teacher-led and student-led teaching and supervision. You also get to explore dance and didactics in different contexts and situations, in meetings with different target groups through activity-based training.

As a student at SKH, you also have the opportunity to apply for a period as an exchange student at another European university. The exchange is carried out within the Erasmus+ program and you credit the exchange studies within your program. You can read more about exchange studies HERE.

General entry requirements for studies at first cycle.

Specific entry requirement: 

• Grade of Pass in qualification test showing abilty in dance.

If you don’t fulfil the formal entry requirements for the programme you may apply for recognition of prior learning, in other words that the knowledge and competence you have acquired through other activities are assessed as the equivalent of the formal merits that are required. Submit your application for recognition of prior learning with your application for the programme.

You may also apply for an exemption/a waiver, that allows you to proceed to the selection process even though you don’t meet the general admission requirements. Submit your application for an exemption/a waiver together with your application.

Read more about how you can show that you meet the entry requirements (that you are eligible).

In order to be admitted to the Bachelor's Programme in Dance Pedagogy, you need to have prior knowledge of dance.

It does not matter where your prior knowledge comes from, whether you are self-taught or have completed preparatory training. Our students have often trained in dance as part of voluntary activities or attended upper secondary school with specialisation in dance before starting the program.

If you are unsure whether to choose the Bachelor's Programme in Dance Pedagogy or the Teacher Education Programme in Dance, apply to both programs!

Start your application early

Don’t delay in submitting your application! You may run into trouble if you wait until the last day and your internet connection happens to be down, or you find that your files are in the wrong format. You will not be able to apply once the last date for applications has passed. Keep in mind that your application has to be turned in by 23:59 (Swedish time).

This programme has Swedish as main language of instruction. You apply for the programme from our Swedish website.

Confirmation that you have submitted your work samples via Varbi

When you've submitted your work samples you will receive a confirmation to the e-mail address that you’ve stated. If you don’t receive a confirmation e-mail, you should first check your spam filter. If the confirmation e-mail is not there, contact Varbi's technical support.

E-mail: support@varbi.com 
Phone: +46 520 580 050 (weekdays 08:30–12:00 and 13:00–16:30).

If you are a Swedish citizen or a citizen of another EU or EEA country you are not required to pay application or tuition fees. Some other groups are also exempt from the requirement to pay application and study fees.

A few years ago Sweden introduced application and tuition fees for higher education. The level of the study fees depends on which course/programme they are for, and the level is set in order to cover the actual costs of the course/programme in question. SKH has some possibilities of offering scholarships that cover the whole study fee or that subsidise it.

If you are required to pay an application fee, the Swedish Council for Higher Education needs to receive your payment by the last date for paying the application fee. The application fee is SEK 900. If you are required to pay the application fee and the Swedish Council for Higher Education has not received your payment by the last date for paying the tuition fee, they will not process your application. Read more here.

The tuition fee for the Bachelor's Programme in Dance Pedagogy starting autumn 2023 is SEK 183,500 per semester and SEK 1,101,000 for the programme as a whole.

Read more about application and study fees, how you pay to SKH and tuition fees and scholarships.