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Master 2018W – Universität Innsbruck

Master's Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (General Education)

Subject: Music Education

curriculum (2018W)

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Master of Education (MEd)

Duration/ECTS-Credits
4 semesters / 120 ECTS-Credits
(combination of two subjects or one subject and one specialisation) 

Mode of Study
Full-Time

Language of Instruction
German

Admission Requirements
Relevant bachelor's degree (at least 240 ECTS-Credits) or equivalent and Language Certificates

Programme Coordination
Mozarteum University (Location Innsbruck)

Qualification Level
Master (Second Cycle)
ISCED-11: Level 7, EQF/NQF: Level 7

ISCED-F
0114 Teacher Training with Subject Specialisation

Study Code
UC 199 570 xxx | UC 199 xxx 570

ApplicationApply ONLINE

Information on the curriculum (2018W)

The complete version of the curriculum reflects the currently valid version of the curriculum. It is for informational purposes only and is not legally binding. The legally binding version of the curriculum, including any amendments, may be found in the University of Innsbruck Bulletins.

In order to determine which version of the curriculum is applicable in your case, see the Catalogue of Studies,
available at: https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/lfuonline_meinestudien.studienblatt
Section: Current curriculum version.

Requirements

Relevant bachelor's degrees at the University of Innsbruck:

Proof of general university entrance qualification:

The general university entrance qualification for admission to a master's programme must be proven by the completion of a subject-related bachelor's programme, another subject-related programme of at least the same higher education level at a recognised domestic or foreign post-secondary educational institution, or a program defined in the curriculum of the master's programme. To compensate for significant differences in subject matter, supplementary examinations (maximum 30 ECTS credits) may be prescribed, which must be taken by the end of the master's programme.

The rectorate may determine which of these supplementary examinations are prerequisites for taking examinations provided for in the curriculum of the master's programme.

In the course of the proof of the general university entrance qualification, the completion of the following core areas within the framework of the completed bachelor's degree programme shall be examined in any case:

  • At least 95 ECTS-Credits in subject-didactics and subject-didactics for Music Education
  • At least 40 ECTS-Credits in Educational Studies

Recommended Course Sequence

The exemplary course sequence given below is recommended for full-time students beginning their study programme in the winter semester. The table shows one possible course sequence for the bachelor's programme and is not compulsory. Delays resulting from repeated examinations are not taken into account.

The standard duration of the study programme is 4 semesters or 120 ECTS-Credits, whereby according to the Universities Act of 2002, a workload of 1,500 (real) hours per academic year must be fulfilled, corresponding to 60 ECTS-Credits (one ECTS-Credit is equivalent to a workload of 25 hours).

4.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: SE Seminar in Music Pedagogy
1.0 ECTS-Credits, 1 h: KO School-Practical conversation Classes (depending on the offer) 1
1.0 ECTS-Credits, 1 h: KO School-Practical conversation Classes (depending on the offer) 2

Education Studies

2.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: VO School Development and Professional Community
3.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: A course must be selected from the following subject areas: Learning Research, Teacher Education &
                                          Professionalisation, School Research, Leadership and School Development Research

4.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: SE Interdisciplinary Research Project
1.0 ECTS-Credits, 1 h: KO School-Practical conversation Classes (depending on the offer) 3

Education Studies

7.5 ECTS-Credits, 3 h: PR Research in the field of Formal Education and Teaching Practice IV

2.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: KO Subject-Didactical Conversation Class

Education Studies

3.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: SE Education Laboratory – Reflection and Development in a Pedagogical Context
2.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: Courses for advanced study issues, problems and topical areas in education science from the
                                           correspondingly marked course programme

Three courses corresponding to 12 ECTS-Credits must be selected from the following courses:
    4.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: SE Seminar in Musicology
    4.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: SE Topics in Music History of the 20thand 21stCentury
    4.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: SE Analysis of Works
    4.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: VU Composition and Arrangement at School
    4.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: VU Applied Music Theroy in Improvisation and Jazz Composition
    4.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: VU Songwriting
    4.0 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: SE Music Ethnology and Music Anthropology

   Education Studies

    2.5 ECTS-Credits, 2 h: One advanced course corresponding to 2.5 ECTS-Credits is to be freely chosen from the following topical
                                           areas: Gender Sensitivity in the School and Education Sytem II, Inclusion and Heterogeneity in the School
                                           and Education System II, Everyday-Life-Related Multilingualism and Interculturality in the School and
                                           Education System II, Plurality of Worldviews II

27.5 ECTS-Credits: Master's Thesis
2.5 ECTS-Credits: Master's Thesis Defence

During the Master’s Programme courses amounting to 20 ECTS-Credits must be passed in elective subjects.

Course Sequence (incl. Education Studies)

Qualification Profile and Skills

The Secondary School Teacher Training Programme (General Education) qualifies its graduates as teachers in the selected subjects of general education / specialisations for all secondary schools (Neue Mittelschule, Polytechnische Schule, Academic Secondary Schools,  Intermediate and Higher Technical and Vocational Schools). This study programme also meets the requirements for teaching in intermediate and higher schools in the South Tyrol *. In the Master’s programme the knowledge and skills acquired in the Bachelor’s programme is broadened and deepened. Graduates are able to solve problems of teaching in secondary schools in an innovative and creative way. They are able to independently deal with scientific or artistic topics resp. with regards to contents and by using appropriate methods. They are able to participate in expert discourse and to independently acquire more specialist, subject-didactical and pedagogical knowledge and to implement it in their teaching.

Graduates of the Master’s Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (General Education) in the subject Music Education can reflect, modify and orientate to teaching practice key scientific contents, theories or development perspectives in the field of music pedagogy, music didactics as well as other music-related disciplines.

They can comprehensively classify and analyse musical content as well as reprocess it for use at school and instruct varied artistic activities to learners in multi-perspectively organised learning environments in consideration of the target group. 

* South Tyrolean teacher education students have to fulfil specific prerequisites, if they want to teach in South Tyrol. For information contact the Office for South Tyrolean Affairs.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Graduates can resort to a wide spectrum of basic competences in artistic perception, experiencing and designing required for teaching at secondary schools, corresponding knowledge in musicology, theory and analysis as well as a sound knowledge in music didactics and school pedagogy.

Future Prospects: Occupational Profiles and Career Opportunities

The Master’s Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (General Education) qualifies for teaching at secondary schools. Based on the Bachelor’s Programme, the graduates acquire the competences needed for teaching in a way to meet the educational requirements of a developing school and society.

With the qualifications acquired during the Master’s Programme, further job opportunities in the fields of the respective study programme and in the field of education, such as social and youth work or adult education, open up.

Information about examination regulations, assessment and grading

Examination regulations

The examination regulation is an integral part of the curriculum, detailed information can be found under the paragraph examination regulations.

The grade distribution table is a statistical representation of the distribution of all successfully completed examinations in a given programme of study or subject (based on all registered students for the programme or subject). The grade distribution table is updated in regular intervals.

ABCDE
Austrian grading scheme Definition %-age
1EXCELLENT: Outstanding performance 60.8= 100%
2 GOOD: Generally good, but with some errors 33.3
3SATISFACTORY: Generally sound work with a number of substantial errors
4SUFFICIENT: Performance meets the minimum criteria 5.9
5INSUFFICIENT: Substantial improvement necessary; requirement of further work

December 2021


Overall classification of the qualification

Not applicable
Explanation: An overall classification (mit Auszeichnung bestanden/pass with distinction, bestanden/pass, nicht bestanden/fail) – is awarded, in accordance with § 73 Para 3 UA, only for examinations that conclude a programme of study and consist of more than one subject (an examination of this type is not specified in the curriculum of this programme of study).

Contact and Information

General Information about Bachelor's Programme Secondary School Teacher Training
www.uibk.ac.at/fakultaeten/soe/lehramt

Andrea Staudacher
Telefon +43 512 560319-3133
E-Mail Andrea.STAUDACHER@moz.ac.at

Head of curriculum Committee and Academic Staff Responsible for Recognitions
Mag. Reinhard Blum 
Telefon +43 67688 122 346
E-Mail Reinhard.BLUM@moz.ac.at

Informations for students from South Tyrol* 
Office for South Tyrolean Affairs
*For students from South Tyrol, there are special requirements if they want to teach in South Tyrol.

Informations for students with disabilities
Disability Office

Information about the Programme (in German only)

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