Master of Arts in Fine Arts with a Major in Art Teaching (MAT) Art projects and education in aesthetics in schools and elsewhere

Comprehensive mentoring by experts in art and education as well as collective projects realised with fellow students, lecturers, and scholars in relevant related disciplines complement the degree programme. Dedicated capacity building for the everyday work of newly qualified teachers, including one-on-one teaching, is core to the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art’s MAT programme. In comparison to other teacher training programmes, the curriculum here leaves room for ambitious artistic practice as well as theoretical insights into how to transfer practice-based knowledge to the classroom. In addition, in the course of the art education modules, students address questions that arise in the public space or the semi-public space of schools or museums.

In the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art’s generously equipped Workshops, existing knowledge of the disciplines Digital Skills, Video, Sound, Printing, 3D (Metal, Plastics, Ceramics and Wood) and Photography can be deepened and practical skills further honed. Comprehensive support and guidance from committed well-known artists, art educationalists, and lecturers in Cultural Studies and Art Theory are assured students throughout the degree programme. Additional practical skills are gained through participation in urban interventions, land art projects, and exhibitions of art in public space, through practice-oriented work placements (internships) and research projects, and through specific career-oriented modules.

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In the educational sciences part of the programme four work placements must be completed: three at Swiss schools (teaching to baccalaureate level) and one in a non-school setting  – ideally on an museum outreach programme or in the framework of an exhibition or mediation project in an informal educational setting, such as “Camp”, for example, the “Koküv” research and development programme launched in cooperation with Lucerne Kunstmuseum, funded by the Göhner Stiftung (Foundation) and directed by Sabine Gebhardt Fink. Throughout the entire Master’s programme, both during their work placements and in their personal artistic development, MAT students are assured the full support of personal mentors.

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Thanks to research modules offered in cooperation with the Art, Design & Public Spheres Research Group and such international partners as the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Majors in Art Teaching (MAT) students pursue research and analysis in the fields of cultural studies, art research, art mediation and education. They take Art and Cultural Studies theory modules along with students doing the Major Art in Public Spheres: in addition to the modules Public Spheres 1–3, they benefit from the special series “Master’s Input” and “Master Dialogues”, the network module “Art Education”, which is offered nationwide in Switzerland – in Lucerne with a focus on media pedagogy – and from the pré-doc-seminar Art in Public Spheres (pilot phase launched autumn semester  2014/15), which is taught jointly by the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art and HEAD Geneva. Lecturers’ intensive research activities in the Competence Clusters at the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art guarantee direct knowledge transfer from research to theory to practice, and vice versa. Students benefit also from institutional, interregional and international cooperation between various art schools.

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In parallel to their art project, students devise a practical artistic, art education, or art mediation project that they further explore in a written thesis. The results of their studies and artistic projects are presented to the general public and interested professionals from the art education field at the annual degree show during the StudioLab Days in the summer semester.

Take a look at our archive of degree show projects.

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Graduates of our Master of Arts in Fine Arts programme initiate art projects and interventions of their own in and with public space, or realise them as commissioned work on behalf of institutions and public bodies. They work with specific segments of the general public, serve urban development authorities as consultants on matters of art, realise public art projects in cooperation with architects, engage with issues of art education and outreach, pursue careers as freelance artists and curators, launch initiatives in various fields of cultural studies or devote themselves to art research at universities.

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Detailed information on the info sheet.

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