Art, Performing Art and Design

Subject code
WUR31.0005

Overview

McMaster’s Music program provides a thorough grounding in theory, general musicianship, history, and performance, and allows students to focus on specific areas of interest, such as music education, history or theory. Our unique Music Cognition program allows music students to study how music is perceived in the brain and how it intersects with other aspects of intellectual development. Your study of Music at McMaster begins in your first year.
 

Overview

McMaster’s Music program provides a thorough grounding in theory, general musicianship, history, and performance, and allows students to focus on specific areas of interest, such as music education, history or theory. Our unique Music Cognition program allows music students to study how music is perceived in the brain and how it intersects with other aspects of intellectual development. Your study of Music at McMaster begins in your first year.
 

Overview

Media Arts at McMaster is an innovative program, which examines computer-based works that integrate multiple media into an artistic whole. Students both study and create multimedia works that use audio, video, animation, and text in an informative and artistically interesting fashion. Your major in Media Arts will begin in your second year, following an exploratory general first-year program called Humanities I.
 

Overview

Our iArts (Integrated Arts) program invites you to direct your path wherever your creativity takes you – from acting, to painting, to writing, to sculpting objects, devising plays, crafting essays, etching prints, researching cultural histories, creating digital videos, staging immersive installations and more. In iArts, you’ll have the freedom to learn in, across and between many disciplines. You’ll begin your iArts degree in your first year. 
 

Why study this programme
We approach the creative industries with a strong focus on culture: we put the creative object, product or process itself at the centre of the study. This emphasis makes our approach unique in the Netherlands. We look at many areas of the creative industry: not just fashion, music, film and television, but also (social) media and education. We take a practical approach to this field by looking not just at the big players, like global conglomerates but also at small and medium enterprises, not forgetting the one-man/woman companies.