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_ The University of Leiden and the Royal Academy of Art, Design, Music and Dance in The Hague (the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts) founded the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts in December 2001. The Academy aims to bring the arts and academic disciplines together by creating a new programme that does justice to both elements.

Multi-talented students
A number of students have talents in both the arts and sciences and wish to combine the two. Until then, multi-talented students could not easily combine two degree programmes simultaneously in The Hague and Leiden. Not only is the burden of studying two subjects difficult, there might also be a number of practical problems which have to be addressed. For example, it may be necessary for a student to attend lessons in Leiden at the same time as in The Hague, or an examination in Leiden may fall on the day that work has to be done on a music project in The Hague.

The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts will do everything to enable this group of students to follow two programmes simultaneously so that they may complete their studies in less time than previously. It is the task of the Academy to remove the practical obstacles which these students may encounter and to make it possible for both study programmes to be undertaken with the minimum amount of difficulty.
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts offers the following possibilities:

Optionals


Minors
Minors offered mainly for Leiden students in 2009-2010 are: Theory and the practice of creative and performing arts, with three tracks:

Sound in the 21st century, with two tracks


Minor Entrepeneurs in the Arts
This minor is offered in Dutch, except for one subject:
Entrepreneurs in the arts

Course description Entrepreneurs in arts, language of instruction: English
In this course students learn about the challenges that independently working artists meet, while selling, managing and organising their work. This artist is an entrepreneur. What does the entrepreneur do? What needs to be done while setting-up your own business? It's not just having a great idea, but also designing a strategy, reaching target groups, dealing with competition and learning how to make money. In this course the studens get acquainted with several aspects of business. The business plan is used as a tool to learn about business practices. Together with other students you will write a business plan for a new, fictitious business, preferably in the arts sector.

These are introductory classes that give you the opportunity to learn about business and arts. It can be seen as an introduction to the larger minor Arts and Business. In this optional minor you will learn in greater detail about all main aspects that are also part of Entrepreneurs in arts.

Information:
René Ory, e-mail: r.p.ory@law.leidenuniv.nl telephone: 071 527 78 51.

Masters programmes
 Media Technology
The programme of the Media Technology MSc is a joint initiative of Leiden University’s computer science institute (LIACS) and the Interfaculty ArtScience.
* Translation of personal fascination in research project
* Objectives.

Translation of personal fascination in research project
The Media Technology MSc programme is a place where students are encouraged to formulate their own scientific questions and to translate personal inspirations and curiosities into their own research projects. To answer these questions students create actual products because we are convinced that by doing so new scientific insights into the underlying question may be encountered.

Objectives
The programme recognises creativity as an important factor in scientific innovation. It aims to be a place where students, artists and scientists do research by creating innovative solutions inspired by results and principles of science. To achieve this, the curriculum focuses on creative exploration and on the understanding of science and technology. The programme encourages its students to draw from the knowledge available throughout Leiden University and the ArtScience programme of the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Keywords throughout the programme are creativity, technology and scientific research. The programme's goal is to stimulate innovation and creativity in scientific research by innovative application of technology. One might say that Media Technology delivers ‘autonomous scientists’, just as art academies deliver autonomous artists.

Read more on mediatechnology.leiden.edu/

Photographic Studies
The Master's in Photographic Studies (MaPS) is a special educational programme that is offered as a joint effort by the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts as a partnership by Leiden University and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague.

Furthermore, a high degree of cross-disciplinary thinking is encouraged, as is witnessed by the close collaboration with the Department of Art History and other departments of Leiden University as the Print Room/Division of Special Collections of the Leiden University Library. The various courses are offered in the form of lectures, meetings, discussions, seminars and excursions and through self-study based on specific texts or photograpic objects, (historical) photographic sources and in-depth analysis of history and criticism of photography. Students work on various projects and presentations, and they are given the opportunity to follow an internschip in the Netherlands or abroad.

Doctorates
 The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts offers a PhD in the Arts on the basis of combination of artistic and research achievements. There are three ways to achieve a doctorate through research:

Pure research
Pure research is the traditional route to obtaining a doctorate within the current system at Leiden Unversity. This research must confirm the criteria set out in the doctorate regulations pertaining to Dutch Universities. This is the usual scientific method of research.

Practice-based research
Research here is carried out via a (performance) practical method, which is the central core of the research; an approach that is a departure from the usual doctoral route applied in other academic fields. This type of research is also different from the practices in pure research. A crucial element in this type of research is artistic achievement - in combination with additional conditions such as the presentation of an artistic product and an oral, aural and/or visual presentation via a portfolio, CD-ROM, DVD, etc. It is important that the promovendus should present a coherent artistic oeuvre. Another condition is that a written report of the research is available (this must fulfill the research standards set out in the doctorate regulations of Leiden University).

www.hum.leiden.edu/creative-performing-arts/research/graduate-school.html.

Extended Research
docARTES en PhDArts

Research in and through the arts come together in the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts. This is where Leiden academics and students encounter teaching and research in the arts in the form in which this takes place at the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, and vice versa. The PhD tracks form the key aspect in music and in the fine arts and design, accessible for artists who allow their artistic development to be explicitly led by a clearly formulated research question. They are supervised by academics and artist-professors. This takes place in an international Graduate School: a research environment including partnerships with Amsterdam, Ghent, Louvain, London and Oxford.

Read more: www.docartes.be and www.phdarts.eu. www.hum.leiden.edu/creative-performing-arts/graduate-school.jsp