Dramaturgy and Contemporary Performance

The course is delivered digitally on Zoom, with 2 weekly sessions lasting 3 hours each. 

• General entry requirements:
  for second-cycle courses with the exception of Swedish 1, 2, 3.
   
•  Specific entry requirements: 120 credits within an artistic discipline
   
• English 5

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).

You apply to the course in two steps

1. ​1. Apply to the course via universityadmissions.se    
   Last day for application: 16 October 2023
   Please note! Choose “Spring 2024” if you search for the course at universityadmissions.se.
   
   Please note that you need to submit supporting documents showing that you meet the entry requirements via universityadmissions.se under My pages/Documents/Upload documents.
   Last day to submit supporting documentation: 1 November 2023
2.  2. Submit your worksample via universityadmissions.se (according to instructions below):
   Last day to submit worksamples to be part of the selection: 16 October 2023

Submit a short a work sample:

Write a short text (max. 800 words) answering the following questions:

1. What issues related to the course theme do you encounter in your artistic practice?

2. Which colleagues/ artists/ thinkers/ methods/ practitioners have you found valuable in your thinking about these issues and how?

3. In what way do you think that the course can help you develop your approach to these issues?

Upload the text in a pdf file.

Name the pdf-file: "Dramaturgy your name"

Important dates for your application 

- Last day for applications: 16 October 2023
Please note! Choose “Spring 2024” if you search for the course at universityadmissions.se.

- Last day to submit supporting documentation for entry requirements: 1 November 2023. 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 2023 (read more under Application and tuition fees below).

- Admission results: Published on My pages on universityadmissions.se 11 December 2023.

- Last day to reply to possible course offer: 18 December 2023.

If there are more eligible applicants than available places a selection will be made, based on the following criteria :

1. The applicant’s ability to solve given tasks, problems or questions.

2. The applicant’s artistic capacity.

3. The applicant’s capacity to reflect upon one’s own and others’ artistic expression.

The evaluation is based on the material you submit with the application.

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.

If you are not a Swedish citizen or a citizen of another EU or EEA country 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 for the course is
111 000 SEK.

Read more about tuition fees and scholarships.