The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music teaches at six departments in Warsaw and the Department of Instrumental and Educational Studies in Białystok. The following fields are covered: composition and theory of music, conducting, instrument studies, vocal studies, music artistic education, church music, dance, and sound engineering.
The University offers first level (junior) and second level (senior) courses. It launched postgraduate doctoral studies in the academic year 2006/2007. Another form of paid studies is also offered, i.e., postgraduate artistic traineeships. The costs of running these studies are covered entirely by the participants. The courses at the different departments are run according to curricula passed by the respective faculty councils and accepted by the FCUM Senate.
From the academic year of 2012/2013, the curriculum also covers general music and major modules, which consist of separate subjects such as Piano, Conducting, Solo Singing (main module) Accompaniment (major module) Aural Training, History of Music with Literature, Music Forms (basic module) Foreign Language, Physical Training (general module) Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Art, Art of the 20th Century, History of Film (humanities module). Group classes have an open forum.
Students who are scientifically and artistically active, students who are preparing for international competitions or other significant artistic or scientific endeavors, and students who are suffering serious hardship or are temporarily ill may study according to an individual plan and program specified by the faculty council. About 150 students graduate from the FCUM every year. The University has nearly 900 students.
The different departments’ teaching programs are rooted in the history of the University and related to its evolving structure. Hence several departments teach the same field of music (Departments 2 — 6) whereas others combine several fields (Department 1 or the Department of Instrumental and Educational Studies in Białystok). Some fields can also be studied at various departments (e.g., instrumental studies at Departments 2 and 3 or the Department of Instrumental and Educational Studies in Białystok).
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