Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (CDS) provides the opportunity
to work on current societal challenges in a multidisciplinary degree programme, linking the approaches and methodologies of
art, the humanities and social and natural sciences. In this sense, the programme is a reaction to the increasing fragmentation
of academic disciplines, aiming to face up to 21st century challenges. Artistic strategies and approaches to art are our common
disciplinary language.
Bachelor
The introductory year covers principles of programming, statistics,
academic work in the form of research and text production, as well as the principles of human rights, the structure of international
organisations, artistic practices and current discourses in social sciences and humanities.
In subsequent years of the
programme, the curriculum is structured into the study areas science and technology, economics and politics, and artistic
strategies and approaches to art with annual topics that deal with global challenges such as migration, medialisation, work,
growth, environment, and nutrition. In this phase, students apply knowledge from their content lectures in cross-disciplinary
projects in team work. The programme aims to enable students to identify and uncover complex correlations, and to integrate
them into cooperative processes of action.
Qualification profile
Graduates employ artistic skills,
strategies and principles of artistic praxis and experience, plus broad knowledge regarding the basic principles of research
from the areas of natural sciences, humanities and social sciences to identify, develop and bring about systematic and innovative
approaches for the achievement of sustainable transformation and design processes. Graduates gain an understanding for the
complex coherences of our globalized and tightly interwoven societies and are able to take a critical stance towards the multiple
challenges of our time.
Graduates pass through awareness-raising and qualification processes that will enable them:
- to
identify and address relevant issues and strategies for change processes beyond the boundaries of disciplines
- to systemize
and communicate (knowledge transfer) the approaches developed, and to implement them according to the requirements of the
respective context
- to instruct and guide interdisciplinary work teams that are characterized by diversity and heterogeneity.
Due
to the architecture of the study programme students have at their command a number of artistic skills and strategies, as well
as interdisciplinary knowledge in respect of the basic principles of highly diverse knowledge areas, all of which facilitates
a certain foresight and at the same time provides a high adaptability to a wide range of disciplines.
Master
In
particular, the master's programme promotes work on transdisciplinary projects for sustainable social change and a cross-disciplinary
approach to digital technologies and the transformation processes associated with them.
Students learn to situate their
topics in a broader societal context and, in addition, to communicate them using a range of methods and artistic strategies
and to apply these in cross-disciplinary, participative projects.
The Angewandte's highly practice-related academic
and artistic teaching and its range of workshops gives the programme an experimental framework in which students are supported
in developing their own individual practice. Every semester offers the opportunity to apply the knowledge gained in independent
cross-disciplinary projects. For these projects, dialogue and collaboration with actors of civil society, art, science, politics
and the economy are supported and promoted.
The programme aims to engage graduates of the Cross-Disciplinary Strategies
bachelor programme and any graduates of other fields who would like to supplement their specialist knowledge and place it
in a new context. Graduates of all other fields with a bachelor’s or other advanced degree and proof of English proficiency
to a level B2 (CEFR) are invited to apply to the CDS master's programme.
Qualification profile
Graduates
of the Cross-Disciplinary Strategies master's programme are equipped:
- to apply academic and artistic approaches
to cross-disciplinary work, and to apply this expertise in projects and in practice. They link theory and practice and can
provide the necessary content and methodology for this purpose
- to find innovative and creative solutions for problematic
issues using a practical cross-disciplinary approach, to advise and lead interdisciplinary working teams that are diverse
and heterogenous, and to develop cross-disciplinary research approaches
Graduates have a good grasp of the principles
of software development and have practice in dealing with data for statistical analysis, machine learning and visualisation.
Graduates
are equipped:
- to initiate and carry out collaborative work with a range of interest groups
- to apply artistic
strategies and to communicate the principles of artistic practice
- to carry out academic and scientific work both independently
and in teams.