Your studies. Your voice.

Your voice counts.

Your input triggers developments.

You shape the university.

Students as co-designers of their degree programme

Studying to become a music teacher at the Karlsruhe University of Music means above all: self-confident co-determination and active participation. We are particularly interested in students contributing to a lively, innovative and democratic learning and working culture with their diverse knowledge and skills, their multifaceted expertise and visions.

Students are therefore naturally represented in the important committees and commissions, sometimes also in the entrance examination commissions and in working and development groups together with teaching staff.

Für die Mitgestaltung des Studiums sind unsere Vollversammlungen ein wichtiges Instrument. Sie dienen nicht nur dazu, über aktuelle Entwicklungen zu informieren, sondern auch wichtige Anliegen aller gemeinsam zu diskutieren. Darüber hinaus arbeiten wir hier gemeinsam daran, wie sich der Studiengang oder unterschiedliche Teilfelder und Projekte entwickeln könnten. World Cafés und kollaborative Arbeitsplattformen ermöglichen, dass jede:r Themen vorschlagen, Entwicklungen nachverfolgen und sich aktiv mit Vorsc

In der Vollversammlung: Zu eigenen Ideen kommen, teilen, diskutieren und gemeinsame Lösungen schaffen.

Regular exchange and collaboration

Our plenary meetings are an important instrument for helping to shape the degree programme. They not only serve to provide information about current developments, but also to discuss important issues together. We also work together here on how the degree programme or various sub-fields and projects could develop. World cafés and collaborative work platforms allow everyone to suggest topics, track developments and actively contribute with suggestions, criticism or concrete ideas.

Students as initiators

In principle, anyone can provide ideas for projects, seminar content or workshops at any time. We then consider and plan together how these can be implemented. This allows us to react spontaneously and flexibly to what input and teaching form each student would like for their degree programme. In the last few semesters, events on intercultural music lessons, racism-critical (high) school culture, jazz and gender, neurodivergence, pop in schools and much more have been initiated in response to student suggestions.

Shaping the future today

In these participative and collaborative work processes, we all, students and lecturers, learn to listen to each other, to endure conflicts, to work together on solutions and to repeatedly tolerate different perspectives on an issue as equal perspectives. We are convinced that this experience and further development of a democratic learning and working culture will help music lessons to become more and more a place where democratic values are practised - diverse, open, creative and fair.