The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in a few words

Fryderyk Chopin - popiersie, UMFC

FCUM Author­i­ties
The FCUM is man­aged by the rec­tor and four prorec­tors: the prorec­tor for stu­dents’ and for­eign affairs, the prorec­tor for artis­tic affairs, the prorec­tor for teach­ing affairs, the prorec­tor for research affairs.

Fields of Stud­ies
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, artis­tic edu­ca­tion in the musi­cal arts, dance, and sound engi­neer­ing.

The Uni­ver­sity offers first level (junior) and sec­ond level (senior) courses and a homo­ge­neous grad­u­ate course from which it is grad­u­ally with­draw­ing. 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.

The Home of the Department in Białystok

Stu­dents have gen­eral music courses and spe­cial courses such as ear train­ing, the his­tory of music and music lit­er­a­ture, musi­cal forms, piano, con­duct­ing; gen­eral sub­jects, for­eign lan­guage and phys­i­cal train­ing; human­is­tic sub­jects (phi­los­o­phy, aes­thet­ics, his­tory of art, 20th cen­tury art, his­tory of the cin­ema). Group classes are open for all.

The FCUM con­fers the fol­low­ing degrees:

 

  • bach­e­lor of arts — on suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of level one (junior)
  • mas­ter of arts spec­i­fy­ing the holder’s qual­i­fi­ca­tions — on suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of the homoge­nous grad­u­ate course or level two (senior).

    • Stu­dents who are sci­en­tif­i­cally and artis­ti­cally active, stu­dents who are prepar­ing for inter­na­tional com­pe­ti­tions or other sig­nif­i­cant artis­tic or sci­en­tific endeav­ours, 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 University’s organ­i­sa­tional units are enti­tled to con­fer the fol­low­ing doc­toral and post­doc­toral (habil­i­ta­tion) degrees:


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