Gradual return to campus-based activities during the autumn semester at the Academy of Music and Drama
On June 3, the university's Vice-Chancellor made a decision on how the university should plan for the return to campus-based activities during the autumn semester 2021. Within the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, we will start the autumn semester as planned, at the same time as we continue planning a gradual increase for campus-based activities. Programme students studying at the Academy of Music and Drama need to plan for staying in Gothenburg. Students attending freestanding courses find detailed information in their schedule.
May 27, the Government and the Public Health Agency of Sweden announced that universities will once again be allowed teaching on campus. That is a positive message indicating the way out of the pandemic! However, it does not mean that all teaching will be on campus already at the start of the autumn semester.
During the entire period of distance studies, the Academy of Music and Drama has had a dispensation to complete certain educational elements on campus. This has involved on-site teaching in our premises for certain priority training elements as well as a controlled and limited access to rooms for practicing.
Now we face a period of reflecting and learning lessons from the past in order to be able to decide what changes we will take with us into the future. At the same time, we have to find well-planned and wise ways for expanding activities on campus during the autumn term.
Continued mix of education on campus and distance-education
For students admitted to a programme / course at the Academy of Music and Drama starting this autumn: From 15 June, you can find your preliminary schedule for the autumn semester on TimeEdit. The finalized schedule is published no later than 14 days before the start of your course. NOTE! Stay up to date for any changes during the autumn term via email and via the schedule on TimeEdit.
Programme students studying at the Academy of Music and Drama need to plan for staying in Gothenburg. International students will receive specific information. Students attending freestanding courses find detailed information on where the courses take place in their schedule.
A sustainable plan for returning
Restrictions regarding distance and overcrowding affect how we can conduct our business. It is only when restrictions are removed and the risk of the spread of infection is considered as minimal that we can organize our business based on our own needs. The hope is, supported by the government's five-step plan for the abolition of restrictions, that this will take place in September / October.
We are now developing a sustainable plan for how a gradual return to campus can take place, both for the time when certain restrictions will remain (August-September) and when the restrictions have hopefully been lifted (probably September / October and onwards).