The master's program in music education offers a broad spectrum of courses in which students learn important theoretical principles in dealing with music and its teaching. The master's program serves to provide subject-specific scientific, subject-specific didactic and practical training for the teaching profession of music education in the secondary sector (general education) and the personal focus of the students.
Department of Music Education Innsbruck
musikpaedagogik-ibk@moz.ac.at
+43 676 88122 481 (Andrea Staudacher)
andrea.staudacher@moz.ac.at
Length
4 semesters / 120 ECTS-AP
Language
German
Registration deadline
from February each year
to the dates
Admission examinations
Summer semester of each year
03. - 07.07.2023
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The planned duration of the Master's degree programme in Secondary Education (General Education) is 4 semesters. Basically, two teaching subjects have to be chosen, which are supplemented by general educational science basics, free elective subjects as well as integrated pedagogical-practical studies. The subject Music Education can be combined with any other subject.
The teacher employment law stipulates that young teachers must complete a Master's degree within five years of their Bachelor's degree in order to be able to enter into permanent employment. In addition, students have to go through a one-year induction phase in which they teach regularly and are accompanied by mentors. This professional practice can be completed directly after the Bachelor's programme and recognised as an internship in the Master's programme in accordance with the respective curricular requirements and the currently applicable legal situation (University Act and Higher Education Act).
In the Master's programme, the range of subjects is completed with practical school events. Music education courses play a key role in a process of increasing individualisation of teachers' personalities: On the one hand, these challenge future teachers to reflect on central contents of the discipline (in order to pursue dissertation studies based on this, if necessary). On the other hand, bridges are also built here to important extracurricular institutions in order to clarify participation in public musical life in production and reception as an essential facet in the role image of music teachers.
The study programme is oriented towards both the state of the art in the development of the arts and the state of research in the sciences involved, and refers to the curricula of the secondary level (general education) and the general and holistic educational goals contained therein. Within the framework of the study programme, principles such as learner-centred orientation, questions of performance assessment, backward learning design, flexible differentiation, competence orientation, diversity as well as teacher leadership are also taken into account.
Link to the semester plan (follows)
The Master's degree programme in Secondary Education (General Education) entitles the holder to full employment as a teacher for the 5th to 13th school level at:
The teacher training programme at secondary level (general education) is carried out in cooperation with the following partner institutions (Entwicklungsverbund Cluster West):
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Graduates of the Master's programme in Music Education:
The prerequisite for admission to the Master's degree programme Teacher Training at Secondary Level (General Education) is the completion of the relevant Bachelor's degree programme Teacher Training (General Education) in the development network Cluster West or another relevant Bachelor's degree programme or another equivalent degree programme at a recognised domestic or foreign post-secondary educational institution.
If the equivalence is basically given and only individual supplements to the full equivalence are missing, the competent body of the admitting university is entitled to prescribe additional certificates of achievement to achieve the full equivalence, which have to be provided in the course of the Master's degree programme.
Admission requires the passing of an admission examination to determine the artistic-pedagogical maturity. This must be passed by all applicants who have not completed their Bachelor's degree in the Development Association Cluster West.
Applicants whose first language is not German must also provide proof of German language skills.
Within the framework of the Master's degree programme in Music Education, piano and voice as well as an artistic main subject must be studied, whereby various artistic main subjects are offered. All instruments offered at the location as well as singing, jazz/pop singing and music direction can be chosen as artistic main subjects. If piano or voice is chosen as an artistic major, no third instrument is required. The choice of instrument must be indicated when registering for the entrance examination.
The subject Music Education must be combined with a second subject. The combination with the subject Instrumental Music Education at the University Mozarteum (location Innsbruck) is possible and requires proof of artistic performance on two instruments within the framework of a separate admission examination.
You can register for the entrance examination via the registration portal for applicants.
Link to the registration deadlines
Link to the examination dates
Registration may only be made for one development association, Central (for Salzburg and Linz) or Western (for Innsbruck). Multiple registrations at different locations are not permitted and will be cancelled.
When registering in the development alliance Cluster Mitte, the location (Salzburg or Linz) must be specified in the application in the above-mentioned registration portal.
Necessary documents for online registration
Form of the documents
The artistic entrance examination
Partial examinations must be passed in the following areas:
Information on the German certificates can be found HERE.
Preparatory workshop on music pedagogical fields of study, Innsbruck location
Saturday, 04.03.2023 (possibly also Sunday, 05.03.2023)
Department of Music Pedagogy (Haus der Musik), 5th floor,
Universitätsstraße 1, 6020 Innsbruck
Registration at: kueko-ibk@moz.ac.at
Probezulassungsprüfung ME/IME
Tuesday, 28.03.2023
Department of Music Pedagogy (Haus der Musik), 5th floor,
Universitätsstraße 1, 6020 Innsbruck
Registration Form
Here you can find more information about starting your studies:
