Curriculum
Students choose either a short study cycle lasting three years (bachelor, 180 ECTS credits) or a longer one lasting five years (master of education, 120 ECTS credits, master of arts, 114 ECTS credits). The master's degree can be followed by the PhD or “maîtrise” (4 semesters).
Subject group | Subjects |
Arts subjects | · Piano (main subject/private tuition) · Second instrument – optional group lessons (usually recorder or guitar) · Singing – group lessons · "formation musicale" (formerly "solfège" lessons): sight-singing with solfège syllables (absolute) and conducting movements; ear training and notation · Choral singing, choral conducting, instrumental ensembles, creative music-making (Orff, Kodaly), eurhythmics and expressive movement (Dalcroze) · Music-making, arranging and elementary composition for school instrumental ensembles, Piano-playing for teaching |
Music theory / musicology | · Analysis of music, written harmony · History of music, contemporary music, music encyclopaedia · Comparative art history · Musical ethnology · Listening to music · Music and the computer, acoustics, instrumentology |
Music pedagogy | · General music pedagogy · General psychopedagogy · Philosophy · General psychology · Music didactics |
Other courses | · Interdisciplinary course: comparative arts · Practicals ("stage") in communication at schools |
The following charts show the subject fields during the Bachelor and Master studies:
Important: These pie charts will soon be obsolete for Flanders due to the sweeping reorganisation in progress there that will also have the effect of increasing the amount of time spent gaining teaching practice in schools during teacher training.
“Agrégation” (Certificate of Aptitude for Teaching)
The curriculum includes the following subjects, among others: education laws, musical ethnology, music pedagogy, specialised methodology, improvisation, didactics, information technology and teaching practice in schools. A table showing all the subjects taught can be found at www.imep.be/etudes.php or in the document Éducation musicale BA agregation.