Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [ArtScience] From Royal Academy of Art, The Hague

The ArtScience degree is offered by the Royal Academy of Art The Hague in collaboration with the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.

The Interfaculty is a collaborative effort of the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) and the Royal Conservatoire (KC). Staff members come from a variety of artistic cultures and disciplines that is unique in its scope. The ArtScience Interfaculty collaborates closely with the Master?s programme in MediaTechnology at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (Leiden University). Within the Royal Conservatoire, the Interfaculty maintains close ties to the Composition department and the Institute of Sonology. Within the Royal Academy of Art, the Interfaculty collaborates primarily with the departments of Fine Arts and I/M/D.

The Bachelor?s programme aims to guide students towards an ?auto-disciplinary? art practice. Students acquire the skills, research methods and conceptual background that they need in order to develop their personal artistic work within the broad field of the arts and sciences. The ArtScience Interfaculty has an ?open? curriculum from the second year onwards. During most of the study, students navigate individually through the teaching modules offered within the Interfaculty and its affiliated departments and institutions. At the Interfaculty, there are four forms of group activities: research projects, labs, theoretical courses and workshop-style courses. With the other Creative Departments of the Conservatoire (Composition and Sonology) the Interfaculty organises four weeks of exchange courses each year. Several Academy-wide courses and labs are organised with the KABK.

In addition to the collective activities, students are expected to conduct their own research and to develop individual work, which is assessed by all teachers in two presentations each year. Beginning in the second year, each Bachelor student chooses two personal coaches who will provide advice regard to study choices and who will reflect on the student?s individual work.

Professional competencies

Students are expected to develop competencies within the following areas:

• creativity

• critical reflection

• innovation and growth

• organisation

• communication

• contextual awareness

• collaboration