OffCourses

With the OffCourse program, Minerva Art Academy aims to provoke unexpected combinations in the cross-disciplinary setting of different courses.

The OffCourses form a project-based program in which students from different years, disciplines and programs collaborate on special projects initiated by artists (focusing on: visual art, design, architecture, music, dance, theatre, food, nature, life and research questions). Each semester Academy Minerva offers a new collection of 20 "courses," creating the opportunity to bring practices into our education that explore current, urgent and experimental issues on a local and a global scale. All OffCourses are scheduled on Fridays.

The OffCourses are thus a substantial part of the program of study (5 EC)* and provide a wide range of electives for students to participate in interdisciplinary and emerging art and design practices.

The OffCourses are thus a substantial part of the degree program (5 EC)* and provide a wide range of electives for students to participate in interdisciplinary and emerging art and design practices.
Experimental learning through making gives these groups innovative expertise in a wide range of areas, for example, research in materiality and physicality, technology in relation to sustainability or art and artistic practices in a social, environmental or intercultural context.

These collaborative projects combine artistic making (medium- or discipline-driven) with research (artistic research) and/or sharing (in a variety of participatory ways).

The Knowledge Center Art & Society and the Project Office of Minerva Art Academy also play an active role in supervising projects.* 5 EC is a study load of approximately 140 hours. (1EC=28 hours) These 140 hours include 40 (16 x 2.5) contact hours on Fridays.

There is no open call available for academic year 2024-2025.