Teaching degree for special education
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The study program
By studying the "Music - Teaching Qualification for Special Education with a Secondary Level Profile (LAS-Sek)" sub-degree program, students acquire skills and knowledge that will enable them to teach music in an inclusive context. This primarily includes artistic and practical artistic skills in two instruments, singing, practical school piano playing, music and movement/rhythm, choral conducting, ensemble work, arranging and speech training. Theoretical and scientific knowledge is acquired in applied music theory/aural training/form theory as well as historical and systematic musicology. Artistic and theoretical skills are combined with pedagogical knowledge in the seminars on school music-making practice and its didactics as well as singing and making music in an inclusive context and music teaching and inclusion and tested in the practical field of school. The above-mentioned course content takes into account the characteristics of Western art music as well as non-European music, folklore, jazz and various manifestations of popular music.
Teachers
The teaching staff at the Institute of School Music are drawn from a variety of disciplines. The list below includes part of the teaching staff.
* lecturer at HfMT according to §26 Hamburg Higher Education Act
Compulsory elective area
Within the compulsory elective area of all three teaching specializations, you can choose from the following courses, among others:
• Various project opportunities in the following degree programs:
• Stage Production (Musicals, Revues)
• Diversity Studies / Community Music
• Practical Music Education (piano, guitar, drums, accordion, saxophone, Orff instruments, brass instruments, string instruments,
• Body-Oriented Fundamentals; Movement, Rhythm, Dance
• Improvisation (piano improvisation, movement improvisation, vocal improvisation)
• In-depth study of various subjects based on capacity
• Instrumental Pedagogy (subject-specific teaching methods, methodological practicum)
• Music Education Colloquium in cooperation with the Department of Subject Didactics at the University of Hamburg (UHH)
• Choirs/Ensembles (chamber choir, jazz choir, women’s choir, men’s choir, school orchestra, school big band, Kleinjans Ensemble)
• Advanced Study in (Choral) Conducting
• Improvisation as a Relational Process
• Group Dynamics (Group Dynamics in Music Education)
• Areas of Application in Music and Psychotherapy and Their Relevance to Music and Instrumental Instruction
• Basic Concepts of Psychodynamic Thinking for Music Education Practice
• Psychodynamic Movement (Body Awareness and Reflection)
• Counseling Skills for Music Educators
• Developmental Psychology with a Musical Perspective
• Emotions and Affects from a Psychodynamic Perspective
• Writing Seminar for the Bachelor’s Thesis on a Music Therapy-Related Topic
• Seminars and lectures in musicology
• Sight-reading, notation software, jazz theory, voice science
Entrance examination
In addition to the university entrance qualification (Abitur), the prerequisite for a Bachelor's degree course is passing the entrance examination as proof of artistic and academic aptitude.
New: From winter semester 25/26, the instrument Saz/Bağlama can also be chosen as an artistic subject for the teaching degree. Further information in the online application.
Details on the specific requirements for your degree program can be found hereand in the entrance examination regulations:
Information on the admission requirements for a Master's degree in School Music can be found in the admission regulations.
The application deadlines can be found in the overview of the application periods
All important information about the application can be found under online application.
Details of the requirements for the entrance examination can be found here.
Contact us
Ines Thiel
Fachbüro Lehramt/Schulmusik+49 40 209494226ines.thiel@hfmt.hamburg.de