BA Secondary Education (Gymnasiallehramt)
In cooperation with the Universities of Tübingen and Konstanz, the Trossingen University of Music offers a comprehensive and aligned programme of study in music for secondary school (Gymnasium) teachers with a second subject at the University or the emphasis subject jazz and popular music. The first eight semesters conclude with a Bachelor of Music, which both qualifies students for the Masters programme in Secondary Education and opens up artistic perspectives. The subsequent four-semester Masters programme in Secondary Education (Master of Education) qualifies students for the preparatory service (Referendariat)
Structure of the study programme
The study programme Gymnasiallehramt Musik (Secondary Music Education) is divided into an eight-semester Bachelor programme and a four-semester Masters programme. The eight-semester Bachelor of Music (Gymnasiumlehramt) programme in music includes artistic, musicological, and pedagogical areas of study and qualifies students for a Masters programme. It includes a further academic subject that can be studied at a nearby university in Baden-Württemberg. Currently, there are corresponding cooperation agreements with the universities in Konstanz and Tübingen. In Trossingen, the emphasis subject Jazz and Popular Music can be studied as a secondary subject (It is recommended to start this second subject by the fifth semester at the latest). The Bachelor degree is followed by a four-semester Master of Education.
Fields of Study
- Performance Practice
- Music Theory
- Media
- Teaching Methodology
- Musicology
- Educational Sciences
- Secondary Major Subject or Emphasis Area Jazz and Popular Music
- Elective modules
The area of educational sciences is offered entirely at the Trossingen University of Music.
Available instruments
- Voice
- Piano, Organ, Accordion
- Guitar
- Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Double bass
- Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Saxophone, Bassoon
- Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba
- Percussion Instruments
- Historical Keyboard, Lute, and Guitar Instruments
- Other instruments on request
Possible combinations
- First Artistic Subject Instrument (except piano): secondary artistic subject Piano, third artistic subject: Module Voice - Singing and Speaking.
- First Artistic Subject Voice: secondary artistic subject Piano and optionally another instrument or the module Vocal Studies - Context Voice.
- First Artistic Subject Piano: secondary artistic subject: Module Voice - Singing and Speaking, as well as either another instrument or the module Piano - Context Keyboard Instrument.
Study regulations for Bachelor of Secondary Education
At the beginning of the winter semester 2021/2022, study plans and module handbooks with the addition "2021" will come into force for newly enrolled students. They replace the plans with the addition “2020”, which are were valid starting from the winter semester 2019/2020. In addition, students who are still studying according to the examination regulations for state examinations have the option of completing their studies according to these examination regulations until summer 2022.
BG-I-21 Bachelor's degree in secondary education (in German)
BG-II-21 Bachelor's degree in secondary education with emphasis in jazz and popular music (in German)
BG-I-20 Bachelor's degree in secondary education, 2020 (in German)
BG-II-20 Bachelor's degree in jazz and popular music, 2020
To the study regulations 2015 and earlier study programs Gymnasiallehramt
Study and examination regulations (in German)
Information about the Teacher Training Program
Teacher Training in Baden-Württemberg (only in German)
Orientation test and internship (expired link)
Information about the orientation internship (only in German)
Information about employment opportunities (expired link)
Student Teaching (only in German)
School internship information from Rottweil (only in German)
Contact Person Jazz-Pop
Anika Neipp
Jazz Singing
Quick Info About Studying
| Regular degree time frame: | 8 semesters Bachelor 4 semesters Master |
| Beginning of studies: | Winter and Summer Semester |
| Application Deadline: | WS: April 15th SS: November 15th |
The subject of Music makes an important contribution to Education
The irreplaceable contribution of music as a subject to education is to provide pupils with creative design possibilities, emotional experience and artistic experience with music, as well as to impart musical understanding and rational reasoning.
The task of music education at school is therefore to give all children and young people access to and joy in making music actively, to understand and adopt the historically grown musical traditions of their country and their homeland, to get to know the different forms and genres of music, to form musical judgement and taste, to promote imagination and creative possibilities in making music and to lead to an open-mindedness for all new and future forms of music. (Ministry of Culture BW)
Das Fach Musik leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Bildung
Der unersetzbare Beitrag des Faches Musik zur Bildung besteht darin, den Schülerinnen und Schülern sowohl kreative Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten, emotionales Erleben und künstlerische Erfahrungen mit Musik zu ermöglichen als auch Musik-Verstehen und rationale Argumentation zu vermitteln.
Aufgabe der schulischen Musikerziehung ist es daher, allen Kindern und Jugendlichen Zugang und Freude am aktiven Musizieren zu schenken, die historisch gewachsenen Musiktraditionen des Landes und der Heimat zu verstehen und zu übernehmen, die verschiedenen Formen und Gattungen von Musik kennen zu lernen, musikalisches Urteil und Geschmack zu bilden, Phantasie und Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten beim Musizieren zu fördern und zu einer Aufgeschlossenheit für alle neuen und künftigen Formen von Musik zu führen. (Kultusministerium BW)