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International Masters of Dance Studies based in Norway
Written by Administrator   
Monday, 14 March 2011

International Masters of Dance Studies based in Norway

Programme valid for the academic years autumn 2011 - spring 2013

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has for almost 10 years cooperated with the Universities of Copenhagen, Stockholm and Tampere on a Nordic masters degree in Dance studies (No-MA-ds). The degree is now entirely taught in English. From the autumn semester 2011 NTNU offers an international Masters degree in Dance Studies, hence students without a Nordic language background are eligible to apply.

No-MA-ds will remain unchanged, and become one of two specialisations within NTNU's new International Masters of Dance studies (IMADS). Since this specialisation is taught as one intensive course per semester, as well as electives, the students do not have to stay at all universities, but can travel to the courses.

Additionally, the project of an Erasmus Mundus Masters programme in cooperation with three European universities enables NTNU to offer a broader European specialisation within its international Master’s programme. The cooperating universities are:  Blaise Pascal University (UBP), Clermont-Ferrand, France, Roehampton University (RU), London, UK and Szeged University (SZTE), Szeged, Hungary. In the context of already established bilateral Erasmus exchange agreements, UBP and SZTE can receive the NTNU students for exchange, one semester or one year each. In the case of RU students  can be accepted as part of a fee paying Study Abroad Programme. Individual applications to each university will, however, have to be submitted and accepted on a case by case basis.

The Nordic Specialisation is a formalised institutional co-operation concerning students as well as lecturers. The programme of study intersects historical and national borders within disciplines and,. combines professional artistic, ethnological/anthropological, and cultural studies approaches. Furthermore, it includes in-depth studies within a number of genres of dance.

The compulsory courses represent the joint academic basis for the master's programme, and emphasise theory and method, dance analysis and the history of dance. The instruction of these courses is structured around intensive periods of teaching and academic supervision. The coursework amounts to three semesters of full-time study. The masters thesis awards 30 ECTS credits and is written during the two final semesters of study.

 

Term

7,5 ECTS

7,5 ECTS

7,5 ECTS

7,5 ECTS

4th term

Spring

Master Thesis

NTNU

Dance Anthropology

University of Tampere

3rd term

Autumn

Master Thesis

NTNU

Dance History

University of Copenhagen

2nd term

Spring

Dance and Cultural Theory

University of Stockholm

Elective

IPEDAM

NTNU, Trondheim

1st term

Autumn

Dance Analysis

NTNU, Trondheim

Individual project

NTNU, Trondheim

 

 

The broader European specialisation is conceived to fill needs for expertise on cultural diversity with respect to dance and other movement systems when envisaged as intangible cultural heritage. The core disciplines are Ethnochoreology and Dance Anthropology.  NTNU offers analysis of the structures of dance understood in its social and historical contexts, based on North-West-European approaches and material.  SZTE offers the formal-structural-morphological approach of Eastern European ethnochoreology, and the theory and methodology of performer-centred dance research, which focuses on individual creativity and collective memory. RU engages especially with South Asian material as well as the position of indigenous dance within complex societies, with a focus on ritual and on the performance of dance heritage in museums, galleries and/or hisistoric sites and  . UBP provides the students with grounding in anthropological approaches to the study of dance as Intangible Cultural Heritage, focussing critically on the contextual and movement aspects of the phenomenon taking examples from African contexts.

 

 

 

 

Term

7,5 ECTS

7,5 ECTS

7,5 ECTS

7,5 ECTS

4th term

Spring

Master Thesis

NTNU

3rd term

Autumn

Exchange semester to Blaise Pascal, Roehampton or Szeged Universities

2nd term

Spring

Exchange semester/year to Blaise Pascal, Roehampton or Szeged Universities

IPEDAM

NTNU, Trondheim

1st term

Autumn

Welcome week NTNU

Dance Analysis

NTNU, Trondheim

(intensive course early September)

Start for exchange year to Blaise Pascal, Roehampton or Szeged Universities

 

Structure
Both specialisations require that the student start with the welcome week and the intensive course in Dance analysis at NTNU. NTNU will also supervise the masters thesis which awards 30 ECTS credits and is written during the final semester of study or half time in each of the two last semesters. NTNU additionally offers a sufficient variety of courses to fill the electives in the Nordic Specialisation, which equal 30 ECTS and include the Erasmus Intensive Program IPEDAM. Students on exchange in the 2nd term can have their travel back to NTNU for 10 days funded.

The student is free to follow one of the specialisations only, or to select elements from both, and Erasmus exchanges can be done to universities of both specialisations.  If the student wants one year's Erasmus exchange, it can be done most efficiently by going on exchange during the first academic year, after the welcome week in August and the Intensive course in Dance analysis at NTNU which is finished by mid September.

 

Admission to this programme  

The Faculty of Humanities welcomes applications from qualified students from around the world to this International Master’s programme as international self-financing students.

 

NTNU does not charge tuition fees, .however, students do need to cover their living expenses, including housing, books, food and travel. At the following NTNU web page a list of the main funding alternatives available to international students can be found.

 

www.ntnu.edu/studies/financing-and-scholarships

 

An electronically based application form will be opened on 2nd April 2011, and the deadline for applying is 15th April 2011 for admission to the academic year 2011/2012. It may be possible to apply after this deadline, but we nevertheless encourage all potential students to apply by 15th April.

 

More information is available by contacting:

Lisbet Vinje < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it > phone; +47 73 59 64 93

 

 

Students who want to visit NTNU's International Masters programme for a shorter period as exchange students should consult the following webpage:

 

www.ntnu.edu/studies/visiting_and_exchange_students

 

Last Updated ( Monday, 14 March 2011 )
 
Nordic Master's Degree in Dance studies (NoMAds)
Written by Birgitte Moe Rolandsen   
Thursday, 26 March 2009

A two-year programme given as a collaboration between The University of Copenhagen (KUA), Denmark, Stockholm's University (SU), Sweden, The University of Tampere (UTA), Finland, and The Norwegian University of Technology and Science (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

About the programme

The programme of study combines professional artistic, ethnological/anthropological, and common cultural-anthropological approaches. Furthermore, it includes in-depth studies within a number of genres of dance. The programme offers an inspiring, broad, international environment for learning where you will have the chance to work at four of the most established centres for dance research in the Nordic countries. You will be able to see the ballets of Bournonville where they were created; you will visit one of the few museums for dance in the world, and meet Finnish tango or rørospols in their local environments. Due to the differences in specialisations both among teachers and in the four different environments the range of topics and approaches in teaching will be broad, and your possibility for supervision in your special fields of interest will be good. Each of the four participating programs additionally has broad networks to Europe and the rest of the world. The students should be prepared for working independently and should consider working in an international environment as an inspiration. Our students come from a variety of dance genres, and for instance both from theatrical and social dancing.

 

Program Components

 

The master is comprised of four compulsory courses, each awarding 15 ECTS: Dance History (KU), Dance and Cultural Theory (SU), Dance Analysis (NTNU) and Dance Anthropology (UTA). The instruction of these courses is structured around intensive periods of teaching and academic supervision. The master's thesis awards 30 ECTS credits and is written during the fourth and final semester of study. In addition to these 90 ECTS the students take additional 30 ECTS electives. The four teaching institutions offer at least one pre-approved elective (minimum 7,5 ECTS). These electives are first and foremost meant for the teaching institutions own students but are open to students from the Nordic Master’s in Dance. The four compulsory intensive courses are taught in English. However, as far as possible the students will be given the opportunity to write essays and their master’s thesis in their mother tongue. The elective courses can be taught in the teaching language used at each university.  

 

Career opportunities

The program will give you a deepened insight and knowledge in dance studies through stronger specialisation. It qualifies you to teach theoretical topics within dance educations at various levels and strengthens your basis for practical teaching within dance disciplines where you are already specialised. The program is meant to be a disciplinary specialisation on high level with a clear vocational focus and at the same time a basis for a PhD. 

 

Admission Requirements and application deadline

Admission to the Nordic Master’s in Dance requires a Bachelor's degree with a specialization in Dance Studies (minimum of 80 ECTS credits) or equivalent. Applicants with accredited education within the Arts, and a certain component of relevant theoretical courses, will be considered for admission. The application deadline is April 15th and you are required to apply via NTNU’s Søknadsweb (http://www.ntnu.no/studier/soknadsweb).

 

If you have a bachelor’s degree from a Norwegian University College (Høgskole), private school or an educational institution from outside of Norway, contact the Faculty of Arts at NTNU to check if you need to apply for specific recognition of previous education. The deadline is April 1st.

Contact information:

If you have questions directly connected to the courses or the programme of study you can contact the Studies Adviser:

 

Lill Hege Pedersen, telephone: + 47 73 59 64 93

 

If you have questions about the study programme, studies at NTNU or about studies in general, you can contact the Studies Advisors at the Faculty of Arts: telephone: + 47 73 59 67 00

 

Last Updated ( Friday, 27 March 2009 )
 
 

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