Interdisciplinarity in the deanery zwoelf

The interdisciplinary dean's office sets structural accents for a modern education geared towards the uncertainty of the future. It focuses on three areas: general studies, pre-vocational courses and cross-deanery projects.

Against the backdrop that knowledge and information are perhaps the central characteristics of modern and globalized society, the concept of education today also requires an immanent updating that does not stop at an artistic university.

The Studium generale has its origins in the polyhistory of the 17th century, an era characterized by the pursuit of universal knowledge. A very broad foundation of knowledge was an essential prerequisite for academic work. It was only by reflecting on this embedding in an overall context that the results could be fully interpreted. The goal of knowledge was not the detail itself, but the sum of all details. This concept of science disappeared after the end of the Baroque era, but the pursuit of knowledge, intellectual networking and reflection on it represent a contemporary challenge. The curricular approach of the Studium generale is the place to take up this challenge again in the present day

All curricula require students to take a varying number of electives (compulsory or freely selectable). The Dean's ^OfficeZWOELF is responsible for structuring the range of electives. By structuring and linking the electives to the curricula, it is possible to be very flexible in terms of how they are taken and thus achieve the goal of promoting the reflective area in addition to artistic and academic training. Students are confronted with different bodies of knowledge in terms of content. The change in perspective and the associated change in methods sharpens reflection on their own subject. This also applies in particular to current social issues, which can be incorporated into the curriculum very quickly in this way.

The Studium generale courses help to train students to become critical, attentive and courageous individuals.

The job profile for graduates of arts universities has expanded considerably in recent years. It can be assumed that the professional fields will continue to change rapidly in the coming decades and that further skills will be required in addition to pure professional competence. The Career Center at the HfMT is a structural unit that has been dedicated to this task for some time now. It offers services and assistance in gaining a foothold in professional life. This includes strategic career management, the development of new professional fields and the integration of artistic skills into existing work structures.

The integration of the Career Center into the ^ZWOELF Dean's Office is an expression of the need to network these services with other elective courses.

Working together across the boundaries of the dean's offices is a practice that is demanded by teaching staff and students alike. However, especially when several departments are involved, the organization of such projects is very time-consuming in terms of planning, implementation and billing. The Dean's ^OfficeZWOLEF can help here and take on a management function. Especially when it comes to the creditability of services for students (e.g. in the form of the shopping basket model), there is a structural location that keeps an eye on these things. The Dean's Office can also act as a point of contact for the administration in the area of financial processing.

In addition, the Dean's Office can also organize content-related events to accompany existing projects. Inter-university events are an essential part of education and serve to enhance the university's public image. The Dean's ^OfficeZWOELF initiates and organizes such cross-university events such as festivals, sound nights, etc.
 

Project offer in the winter semester 2023/24:
Claudio Monteverdi's Favola in Musica L'Orfeo

In the winter semester 2023/24, the focus will be on Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in many places at the university! In addition to practical work in rehearsals, there will be a wide range of seminars and lectures that also deal with Orfeo, Monteverdi and his time. The project will culminate in two semi-staged performances on January 12 and 13, 2024 in the Rudolf Steiner House

The Dean's ^OfficeZWOELF is a place where content that goes beyond the individual departments is structured and organized. The interdisciplinary dean's office sees itself as an innovative place where knowledge, reflection and events are constantly brought into a new relationship. It is therefore in a constant state of change and a place of collaborative experimentation.