Musiktherapie

Semesters 1–6

Teaching

Fundamental theories and concepts of music therapy are taught throughout the programme. You will also acquire basic medical and psychological knowledge.

You will have the opportunity to improve your performance skills on several instruments, as well as other musical skills which are important in music therapy. Self-experience and practical exercises will help to enhance your understanding of the mechanisms by which music therapy works. Courses addressing music-theory, legal and ethical questions and topics round out the comprehensive curriculum.

Semesters 1–6

Research

Building on the critical discussion of insights from the academic theory courses at the beginning of the programme, you will be introduced to the fundamentals of academic research methods, as well as the various academic traditions in the field of action research.

There is a special focus on French action research, which adopts a very practical approach and is concerned with solving problems in the field – rather than testing out hypotheses – and linking research with practice.

The objective is to enable you to critically reflect on and develop your music therapy practice in the course of writing a bachelor paper. Students’ “reflective autobiographies” also play an important role here, and are expressly incorporated into the research and discovery process. In a reflective autobiography, you critically examine your own practice based on a range of empirical data, which you systematically evaluate using established qualitative methods.