Master's Programme in Film and Media - The Art of Impact

The first year, method courses within The Art of Impact are given that consider how we can create audio visual stories that can help influence society, what limitations and challenges one can face as an artist, what a socially engaged content can be and how you come up with effective ideas by understanding the audience at advanced level.

Within the lab courses you explore themes, expressions, formats and more. Furthermore, you develop your creative processes under supervision and will formulate and solve advanced artistic and design problems. During the first year, you will also develop a research question in narrative film and media and formulate a method for exploring it.

During the second year, you will complete a degree project as well as an exposition in text or an extended text format of your work and how you have approached your question. The degree project can be a close-up study of a process in one's own practical artistic work. Explore an event in your own storytelling. The study can also include comparisons with other people's work and methods and reflections on it. The work is based on a research question and is presented in the form of a practical work and written text.

The Art of Impact is a low-residency programme with 1–2 four-day residencies each semester in Stockholm and spread out across Europe. These residencies serve as a source of inspiration putting you as a student closer to a broad spectrum of current events and networks. Each student receives a travel grant. In-between the residencies the education will be online. The premises at Stockholm University of the Arts are open for you throughout the programme.

Semester 1

Methods in Artistic Research I, 7.5 credits
Laboratory Course - Research Preparation, Idea Formation and Method Formulation, 7.5 credits
Method Course in Specialisation, The Art of Impact, part I, 7.5 credits
Laboratory Course individual, 7.5 credits

Semester 2

Methods in Artistic Research II, 7.5 credits
Elective Programme Course, 7.5 credits
Method Course in Specialisation, The Art of Impact, part II 7.5 credits
Laboratory Course individual, 7.5 credits

Semester 3

Documenting Artistic Practice, 7.5 credits
Elective Uniarts Course, 7.5 credits
Laboratory Course - Advanced Project Work, 15 credits

Semester 4

Degree Project I, 15 credits
Degree Project II – Exposition, 15 credits

General entry requirement: for studies at the second cycle which means a Bachelor degree.

Specific entry requirement:

• Degree of a Bachelor of Fine Arts, or for the programme other relevant Bachelor Degree
• English 6
• Pass on the qualification test showing artistic ability in the specialisation applied for.
• 15 credits and a degree project within, for the specialisation applied for, a relevant specialisation from the Bachelor's programme in Film and Media, or equivalent.

If you don’t fulfil the formal entry requirements for the programme you may apply for recognition of prior learning, in other words that the knowledge and competence you have acquired through other activities are assessed as the equivalent of the formal merits that are required. Submit your application for recognition of prior learning with your application for the programme.

You may also apply for an exemption/a waiver, that allows you to proceed to the selection process even though you don’t meet the general admission requirements. Submit your application for an exemption/a waiver together with your application.

Read more about how you can show that you meet the entry requirements.

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If you are a citizen of Sweden, another EU or EEA country or or Switzerland you are not required to pay application or tuition fees. Some other groups are also exempt from the requirement to pay application and study fees.

If you are not a citizen of Sweden, another EU or EEA country or or Switzerland you are required to pay application and tuition fees. The level of the study fees depends on which course/programme they are for, and the level is set in order to cover the actual costs of the course/programme in question. SKH has some possibilities of offering scholarships that cover the study fees for programmes.

If you are required to pay an application fee, the Swedish Council for Higher Education needs to receive your payment by the last date for paying the application fee. The application fee is SEK 900. If you are required to pay the application fee and the Swedish Council for Higher Education has not received your payment by the last date for paying the tuition fee, they will not process your application. Read more here.

Scholarships to Cover the Tuition Fee

If you are obliged to pay a tuition fee you can apply for a scholarship which covers the tuition fee. The scholarship does not cover any private costs during your studies. Please note that you still need to pay an application fee (900 SEK). The application fee is non-refundable.

Read more about tuition fees and scholarships.