Artography in Theory and Practice in Higher Education

This fully online course is structured through two online seminars and eight individual and/or collaborative assignments that the student fulfills during the course, as well as an online examination which builds on the course assignments. 

The learning activities consists of workshops, lectures, seminars, reading literature, peer-reviews, collaboration with other course participants, an interview, independent work connected to one’s own teaching practice with supervision, digital exhibition with sharings.

Online seminars:
Wednesday January 8, 2025, at 9-16 (Central European Time)
Thursday March 13, 2025, at 9-16 (Central European Time)

Online examination day:
Tuesday May 20, 2025, at 9-16 (Central European Time)

General Entry Requirements for studies at advanced level and

Specific Entry Requirements:
Degree of Bachelor of Arts of which 90 credits in artistic subjects or didactics/pedagogy

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).

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 needs to be turned in by 23.59 (Swedish time).

Apply to the course via universityadmissions.se

You apply to the course in two steps

1. Apply to the course via universityadmissions.se     
Last day for application: 15 October 2024
Please note! Choose “Spring 2025” for your search!

Please note that you need to submit supporting documents showing that you meet the general entry requirements via universityadmissions.se under My pages/Documents/Upload documents.

Last day to submit supporting documentation: 1 November 2024

2. Submit your worksample via universityadmissions.se under My pages/Documents/Upload documents (according to instructions below).
Last day to submit worksamples to be part of the selection: 15 October 2024

Important dates for your application 

• Last day for applications: 15 October 2024
  Please note! Choose “Spring 2025” for your search!
• Last day to submit supporting documentation for entry requirements: 1 November 2024.* NB! SKH's date is an earlier date then the general date communicated on universityadmission.se.
• Last day to pay the application fee or prove that you are not required to pay the fees: 1 November 2024 (read more under Application and tuition fees below).
• Admission results: Published on My pages on universityadmissions.se 10 December 2024.
• Last day to reply to possible course offer: 16 December 2024.

Instructions for work samples

If there are more eligable applicants than places on the course, there will be a selection. Worksamples to be submitted to take part of the selection:

A letter of application with supporting documents in which you motivate why you want to take the course and describe your qualifications for the course by answering the following questions. Maximum 1 A4 (about 4000 characters including spaces). Use pdf. 

1) How does the theme of the course relate to your own artistic and/or arts educational activities and experiences? 
2) What are your expectations of the course, what do you hope to learn and develop?
3) List and describe three artistic and/or arts educational qualifications (from studies or professional life) that are relevant to this particular course and upload supporting documents of these qualifications. You can provide certificates from employers or others with whom you have worked, programmes, reviews or similar. It is important that the certificates state what you have done and to what extent.

If there are more eligible applicants than places on the course, a selection is made on submitted material. The selection is made through a joint assessment of the applicant's previous artistic and/or didactic and pedagogical merits and work samples. The assessment is based on the applicant's ability to solve given tasks, problems or questions.

If you are a citizen of Sweden, another EU or EEA country or or Switzerland 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.

If you are not a citizen of Sweden, another EU or EEA country or or Switzerland you are required to pay application and tuition fees. 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 study fees for programmes.

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 is 51 000 SEK for non EU/EES students.

Read more about tuition fees and scholarships.