Arts and Design Education BA
The BA programme focuses on providing a broad field of competences serving as a foundation for teaching in art and design. In your BA in Arts and Design Education, which lasts six semesters, you address art, culture, design, technology and communication in both practical as well as theoretical terms. In different media you acquire your own style of design expression, technical and artisanal skills as well as general theoretical knowledge concerning art and design. No matter whether in workshops, studios, ateliers or the classroom – in the BA programme the focus of attention is on the quality of the developed products as well as on the design process in itself. At the Institute of Arts and Design Education this process is perceived as a space of learning and experience in which you acquire skills and knowledge and a better understanding of communication issues, creative processes and strategies, allowing you to better understand what is at the core of art and design, to acquire new knowledge and define your own attitude towards teaching. A BA degree entitles you to apply for the Master of Arts FHNW course in Arts and Design Education, teaching diploma Secondary School II level (Maturitätsschulen).
Key data
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts FHNW
- ECTS points
- 180
- Start of semester
- September (week 38)
- Next start
- Mon. 18.09.2023 | Autumn Semester
- Final application date
- Feb 15, 2023
- Studying mode
- fulltime
- Duration
- 6 semesters
- Teaching language
- German (B1 or equivalent))
- Place
- Basel
- Stay abroad
- possible
- Application fee
- CHF 200.- (incl. aptitude assessment and enrolment)
- Semester fee
- CHF 700 (CH); CHF 1.000 (EU); CHF 1.250 (Not-EU/EFTA)
Information on admission and admission to studies
Target Audience
The programme addresses holders of a Matura diploma who wish to go into teaching with a focus on art, technical design or art history at the level of Secondary School II or work in extracurricular art and design education. The qualification to work professionally only comes with the Master of Arts FHNW degree in Arts and Design Education, teaching diploma for Secondary School II (Maturitätsschulen).
Information on programme contents
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