Arts and Design Education BA

Educational qualifications
Acceptance Acceptance to the admission procedure regarding the degree programme Arts and Design Education commonly requires one of the following certificates:

• a certified vocational baccalaureate
• a certified specialized baccalaureate
• a certified upper secondary school baccalaureate
• proof of equivalent education at upper secondary school level obtained otherwise
• an EDK-approved primary school teaching certificate

Language of tuition
The language of tuition is German. Applicants with a foreign language background are required to submit proof of their language proficiency in German at level B2 (or equivalent) before commencing their studies. On-the-job work experience or preparatory course in design
One year of practical work experience or completion of a preparatory course are not mandatory, but recommended. approved professional fields (PDF in German) Catching up on the vocational baccalaureate
Candidates who have not completed at least three years of upper secondary education (level II) are not legally entitled to admission to a Bachelor's degree programme. Information concerning full-time or part-time, on-the-job training courses focusing on a vocational, design-based or specialized baccalaureate is provided by the local vocational schools.

To apply for a place at the HGK, the required documents must be submitted by 15.02.2023.

Info aptitude assessment 2023 (PDF in German)

Dates

• 15.02.2023
  Registration deadline and deadline for digital submission of the portfolio.
• 27.03.2023
  Admission Day: Aptitude workshop and individual discussion with folder presentation at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW
  
• 18.09.2023
  Fall Semester begin 2023/24

Requirements regarding the portfolio presentation on admission day:
Portfolio: At least 12 different projects (mix of paintings, drawings, photos, videos, digital works, crafts, if feasible documentations of art educational projects). Put your workbook or portfolio together with an approach to studying Arts and Design Education. We are interested in a wide range of materials, techniques, ideas, projects, and educational works.
Label your workbook or portfolio on the outside in clearly visible and legible writing, indicating name, first name, and address.
When presenting your portfolio (duration ca. 10 minutes), make sure you show a broad selection of your work and only go into more detail of a few, carefully selected works.

Study Regulations, Arts and Design Education, Bachelor (PDF Download)

Structure of programme

Semesters 1 and 2
In the first two semesters you gain access to and an understanding of artistic and design-related media and techniques in theory and practice. You appraise image ideas and design methods, discuss questions concerning the quality, perception, planning and production of aesthetic processes. Furthermore, you develop awareness for job-specific perspectives, look at art-historical interrelationships, discuss by way of example current issues and advance your scientific vocabulary. You end your first year of studies with subject-specific documentations; this also involves a first teaching internship along with the acquisition of a basic level of teaching competence.

Semesters 3 and 4
In the second year of your studies you are introduced to the project method with regard to design activities and didactical considerations. In the form of project work you work on artistic assignments, develop criteria and freely experiment in the fields of design and media. You become acquainted with new workable materials and techniques, learn more about analogue and digital image media and are introduced to the basic concepts of art theory. You discuss media and communication topics, learn the ropes of your future professional environment and practise the ability to express yourself orally and in writing.

Semesters 5 and 6
In the third year of your studies, you select more freely from the degree courses, according to your personal preferences. You develop strategies and pursue your own ideas in the context of artistic project work and with regard to technical design processes. You are supervised and supported by your lecturers and teachers and practise the art of presentation. In a special emphasis area you will focus on questions specifically dealing with art education and the educational sciences.

In the context of attaining your BA degree you condense your acquired knowledge and experience into an art project and a design project. In your BA thesis you work on a subject of your own choosing from the field of art or design or the history and theory of art and design.

Context events
Between Practice and Discourse: Diagnosis and Reflection

The BA programme also includes a series of mandatory context events across institutes in the form of seminars, lectures and block weeks, focusing on the teaching of cultural history and perception in the humanities.

A BA degree entitles graduates to take up professional work in a socio-cultural field as well as in connection with exhibitions, youth work, off-spaces, and extracurricular course work.

With its studios and central Campus.Workshops, HGK offers ideal conditions for combining craft curiosity, the acquisition of technical skills, and the necessary digital know-how. In addition, all students have their own 24/7 workspace in one of the spacious studios. At the Institute’s Learning Lab Arts and Design, creative processes and the design of experiential and knowledge spaces are tested, documented, and explored in the digital as well as analogue mode in workshops and seminars. The facilities are open to students 365 days a year.

High school diploma (Matura) and qualification to study at the University of Basel respectively.

Entry to the admission procedure is open to applicants who meet the eligibility conditions, supply the required full documentation and register in time.

The admission procedure involves the submission of a work folder and/or portfolio and an entrance interview.

The application deadline is always 15 February

The aptitude assessment concerning a candidate’s artistic and design-related potential as well as his or her communicative and research skills decides on the candidate’s admission to the programme. The results of the test are sent a week after the assessment procedure by post.

Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW
Institute Arts and Design Education (IADE)
Freilager-Platz 1
Postfach

CH-4002 Basel

Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW
Institute Arts and Design Education (IADE)

Oslo-Strasse 3
4142 Basel/Münchenstein

Ateliergebäude: A 1.18

T +41 61 228 40 88
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