Elective Choices
The Leiden University Academy for Creative and Performing Arts (LUACPA) offers a wide variety of elective choices, both at the Royal Conservatory The Hague as at the Royal Academy of Art. The courses can be divided into two categories: practical and theoretical.
The Leiden University Academy for Creative and Performing Arts (LUACPA) offers a wide variety of elective choices, both at the Royal Conservatory The Hague as at the Royal Academy of Art. The courses can be divided into two categories: practical and theoretical.
Practical courses
The practical courses are appropriately called Practicum Musicae (PM) and Practicum Artium (PA). PM is a 3 year course, in which the student, after passing an audition, takes instrumental lessons with one of the teachers at the Conservatory. Furthermore, an elementary music theory course will be taught. The instrumental part of the course stands for 13 ECTS, while the music theory part stands for 2 ECTS.
PA offers 4 courses: Drawing, Painting, Photography and Graphic Design. For these courses an audition of sorts is also required. The PA courses count for 5 ECTS each.
IMPORTANT: Enrollment for these courses starts earlier than for most electives: auditions usually take place in May or June, so it is advised to start enrollment in March/April.
See the e-Prospectus for more information.
Theoretical courses
The theoretical courses cover a vast area of music related topics. A student could choose to take a course in the history of classical music or jazz, ponder the question what music is in the course What is Music, sit-in at one of the Sonology courses or learn about the history of liturgical music. A full overview of courses can be found in the e-Prospectus.
Minors
Currently we also offer two comprehensive minors. The first is entitled Music: Classical, jazz, world music and philosophy. This minor offers an overview of classical, jazz, world and pop music, as well as auditory analysis and music philosophy. The other minor is Auditory Culture. This minor covers a variety of subjects within this new field of research, which centres around the question: what is the relationship between man and the sounds of his environment and what happens when those sounds change?