Theatre Studies - Masters

City Student Scholarships Category Duration Admission Requirements Education Institution
Copenhagen SU berettiget Masters 2 year Bachelor University of Copenhagen
City Copenhagen
Student Scholarships SU berettiget
Category Masters
Duration 2 year
Admission Requirements Bachelor
Education Institution University of Copenhagen
Theatre Studies

If you choose to read to graduate in Theatre, it is an education that like most other graduate programs are rated for 2 years. Offered a relatively large number of courses that you can freely choose from. You must follow a small number of mandatory courses where the focus is communication as a discipline, as well as the theory and methodology underlying the dramaturgy.

Dramaturgy can easily be described as an extremely important competence for Theatre Studies Students, since the term covers the conditions that give an idea of ​​the form and essence, which allows the actor or performer to convey the idea and its message to the audience / viewers.

Through education, you study theater as an art form, but also the interaction theater has with society. It can be through social satire that castigates politicians or critical media covering eg. wars or other problems in society. Thus, students get insight into the unique history, related to the theater as an art institution and focal point. Part of the curriculum is in English and you must be prepared to spend several hours on preparation.

You can compare dramaturgy little reading literature. It is about analyzing and understanding the reason for why a piece or a book written in relation to the social situation more than it is about actual piece carryover.

It is also very similar graduate programs you can choose between the two lines, theater history and literature.

The issues you will be taught are:
- Theatre and performance theory

- Theatre and performance after 1945

- Of drama and theater pedagogy

You connect the training of using a ½ years writing your thesis and you get the following title Cand. mag.


Job Opportunities

You can be employed in posts at the theater, as a cultural or publicist, or you can become a teacher at a high school or similar.