Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Estetic Education
Degree programme objectives
Students will be acquainted in detail with different disciplines and sub-disciplines of art studies: general sociology, sociology of culture and art, the theory of art and aesthetics, and the philosophy of art history. In addition to historical and theoretical knowledge, students will gain an overview of the latest phenomena in the field, such as pop culture, mass media, marketing, cultural industry, and the praxeology of cultural institutions. A pedagogical overview, capability, and skills will be provided by courses in general pedagogy, psychology for teachers, general didactics, and didactics of aesthetic education. Pedagogical practice is also part of the programme.Study plans
Admission ProceduresAdmission to Master's degree programmes in 2025/2026 (beginning: Autumn 2025)Submission deadline until midnight 30. 4. 2025
- Information on entrance examinations designed for this degree programme
Deadline for submitting applications: January 1 - April 30
Who the programme is intended for: The programme is intended for graduates of Bachelor’s degree programmes focused on art and culture. In the case of fields which are only marginally related, the topic of the Bachelor’s thesis is decisive. The guarantor of the field decides on the admissibility of the application on the basis of an application addressed to the Office for Studies - Admission Procedure, FA MU (email: prijimaci.rizeni@phil.muni.cz).
Subject matter of the entrance examination: The entrance examination takes the form of a checking test on the history and present day of culture and art in the scope of the Bachelor’s single-subject studies state exams of the programme Combined Art Studies. The test will consist of 20 questions, each with five options (a) to (e).
Waiver of the entrance examination: The admission procedure is waived for graduates of Bachelor’s and Master’s fields and programmes of Combined Art Studies, Musicology, Theory of Interactive Media, the Academy of Early Music, and related fields and programmes at FA MU who obtained an excellent (A) or very good (B) result in the final state examination. The entrance examination may also be waived for applicants whose overall result of the state final examination was assessed as "passed with distinction" in the above-mentioned programmes. Applicants can ask for a waiver for the entrance examination via the e-application form, section "Application for waiver of the entrance examination".
Website Department of Musicology.
General information on the course of the admission procedure to the follow-up Master’s degree programmes at FA MU can be found here. Documents for the current admission procedure are kept in Materials for Applicants.
- Evaluation criteria valid for the applicants applying for a place on this degree programme
Pass/fail line of the entrance examination: 40 points (out of 100).
Studies
- ObjectivesStudents will be acquainted in detail with different disciplines and sub-disciplines of art studies: general sociology, sociology of culture and art, the theory of art and aesthetics, and the philosophy of art history. In addition to historical and theoretical knowledge, students will gain an overview of the latest phenomena in the field, such as pop culture, mass media, marketing, cultural industry, and the praxeology of cultural institutions. A pedagogical overview, capability, and skills will be provided by courses in general pedagogy, psychology for teachers, general didactics, and didactics of aesthetic education. Pedagogical practice is also part of the programme.
- Regulated Professions
- Secondary school teacher