Sara Ahmed’s Points of Orientation - queer and postcolonial strategies in performing arts

The course includes lectures, workshops and feedback, seeing a performance and/or exhibition and individual work under supervision.

Schedule

Full days teacher-led work:

Week 46: November 15, 16, 17, 

Week 47: November 21, 23

Week 48: November 28, 30

Week 29: December 7 

Week 50: December 11, 12, 13, 14

Time for all days: 1-5 pm

General Entry Requirements: for studies at the first cycle with the exception of Swedish 1-3 and English 6.

Specific Entry Requirements: 30 credits within the artistic field.

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).

How to apply:

Please note! Read all the instructions below before you submit your application

1. Apply to the course via universityadmissions.se

Last day for application: 17 April 2023

2. Submit supporting documentation of previous studies via universityadmissions.se

Check that your documentation of previous studies is submitted at universityadmissions.se. If you can’t see your documents on “My pages”, then you need to submit them there: universityadmissions.se/My pages/Documents/Upload documents.

Last day to submit supporting documentation of previous studies: 2 May 2023.
 

3. Submit your work sample via universityadmissions.se

You need to submit the following work samples via universityadmissions.se in order to be part of the selection to this course:

1. Letter of motivation (approx 350 words)

Please describe

• your previous experience of and/or education related to the course's content
• how your current artistic activity or practice connect to the course's content
• in what ways you wish to connect to the course's content in your artistic practice. 

2. CV

with a list of your artistic education, work and experiences.

You submit the documents via universityadmissions.se/My pages/Documents/Upload documents.

Last day to submit work sample to be part of the selection: April 17 2023

Other important dates

• - Last day for applications: 17 April 2023
  Please note! Choose “Autumn 2023” for your search!

  - Last day to pay the application fee or prove that you are not required to pay the fees: 2 May 2023 (read more under Application and tuition fees below)

  - Admission results: Published on My pages on universityadmissions.se 12 July 2023.

  - Last day to reply to possible course offer: 21 July 2023.

If there are more qualified applicants than places a selection will be made. The selection will be based on merits uploaded with the application and the ability to articulate their interests and experiences related to the course content

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 49 500 SEK.

Read more about tuition fees and scholarships.