ON EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
RASL began its educational offering in 2016 with a Dual Degree, giving students the possibility of combining the arts and sciences into an integrated five-, instead of seven-year, programme. Through the Dual Degree, students can combine a study programme at WdKA or Codarts, with one at EUR. Such a combination further provides students with access to a large number of master’s programmes both in the arts and the sciences. The Dual Degree has proven to be extremely popular with students. In this year’s highly competitive admissions procedure, we admitted 50 new students. Indeed, students value the particular mix of arts and sciences that affords them additional opportunities on the labour market.
Building upon this success, there arose the need to expand upon the Dual Degree and take a further step in imagining innovation in education with regards to societal concerns. Benefitting from the increased interconnectedness of the founding institutions, we developed the RASL minor: Re-imagining tomorrow through Arts and Sciences. This minor was first offered in 2019 and was made available to all students, not just those following the Dual Degree.
Funded through a Comenius Leadership grant, the RASL minor both traverses and contests institutional structures by working transdisciplinarily. The minor was developed by an educational team consisting of teachers and PhD researchers across all three institutions. Students from our institutions, but also other universities, participate(d) in the minor.
It is our intention that RASL continues to build upon transdisciplinary education. As such, we are currently planning three important developments: transdisciplinary bachelor’s and master’s programmes, as well as a transdisciplinary PhD degree.
To further ensure critical perspectives, RASL initiated its European collaboration efforts through the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership. This collaboration seeks to launch an international transdisciplinary network, to offer the opportunity of collaboration with international partners, and to work on a tuning document for transdisciplinary education in the art and sciences.
RASL education is informed by its embeddedness in research. It is supported by the professorship of Transdisciplinary Education Innovation at Codarts and of Transformative Academic Education at the Erasmus School of Philosophy. In addition, RASL closely collaborates with the professorships of Perfomance Arts Medicine at Codarts, and the professorships of Autonomous Practices and of Social Practices at WdKA. The RASL research group serves as a platform for collaboration between the arts and sciences and has been very successful in securing research grants.
As characterized before, RASL is an entangled collective, and has thrived through the enthusiasm and unique support of all who participate in it, from student to board member.
Building upon this success, there arose the need to expand upon the Dual Degree and take a further step in imagining innovation in education with regards to societal concerns. Benefitting from the increased interconnectedness of the founding institutions, we developed the RASL minor: Re-imagining tomorrow through Arts and Sciences. This minor was first offered in 2019 and was made available to all students, not just those following the Dual Degree.
Funded through a Comenius Leadership grant, the RASL minor both traverses and contests institutional structures by working transdisciplinarily. The minor was developed by an educational team consisting of teachers and PhD researchers across all three institutions. Students from our institutions, but also other universities, participate(d) in the minor.
It is our intention that RASL continues to build upon transdisciplinary education. As such, we are currently planning three important developments: transdisciplinary bachelor’s and master’s programmes, as well as a transdisciplinary PhD degree.
To further ensure critical perspectives, RASL initiated its European collaboration efforts through the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership. This collaboration seeks to launch an international transdisciplinary network, to offer the opportunity of collaboration with international partners, and to work on a tuning document for transdisciplinary education in the art and sciences.
RASL education is informed by its embeddedness in research. It is supported by the professorship of Transdisciplinary Education Innovation at Codarts and of Transformative Academic Education at the Erasmus School of Philosophy. In addition, RASL closely collaborates with the professorships of Perfomance Arts Medicine at Codarts, and the professorships of Autonomous Practices and of Social Practices at WdKA. The RASL research group serves as a platform for collaboration between the arts and sciences and has been very successful in securing research grants.
As characterized before, RASL is an entangled collective, and has thrived through the enthusiasm and unique support of all who participate in it, from student to board member.