The network’s peer-to-peer learning space, open to contributors of every background; it is not a university and grants no degrees. KCO’s peer-to-peer learning space, open to contributors of every background.
A broad area of knowledge that arranges the Academy’s courses by subject; it is not an institution or a body of teaching staff.
Faculty of Arts
Music, dengbêj and dance, visual arts, crafts, architecture and film, as practice and as study.
- Departments
- 3
- Disciplines
- 8
- Courses
- 0
- Open
- 0
01Departments
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Department of Music and Performing Arts
Kurdish music, dance and theatre, performed and studied.
3 One subject of the Academy, with its fields, courses and communities of practice.0 A set of lessons with an outline, written and reviewed by peers; it carries no academic credit.
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Department of Visual Arts, Crafts and Design
Fine arts, crafts, design and their history.
4 disciplines0 courses
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Department of Film and Media Arts
Film, television and sound.
1 discipline0 courses
02Disciplines
Department of Music and Performing Arts 3
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Music and musicology
Musicology studies music and the people who make it, from dengbêj song and maqam to recording in exile.
0 courses4 A narrower topic within a discipline.
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Dance and theatre
Dance and theatre, from the line dances of weddings and Newroz to the Kurdish stage.
0 courses3 fields
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Folklore studies
Tales, proverbs, laments and customs passed on by voice, and how to collect them with consent.
0 courses4 fields
Department of Visual Arts, Crafts and Design 4
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Fine arts
Painting, sculpture and photography by Kurdish artists, and how to study and make them.
0 courses4 fields
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Crafts and textiles
Kilims, carpets, dress, embroidery, pottery and metalwork: making skills, and the livelihoods they support.
0 courses4 fields
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Design
Design for people who read in more than one script: type, signs, interiors and products.
0 courses3 fields
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Architecture and landscape
Mountain villages, citadels and gardens, and how to design and conserve buildings in a land of earthquakes.
0 courses4 fields
Department of Film and Media Arts 1
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Film studies
Kurdish cinema, documentary and diaspora film, as art, as industry and as record.
0 courses4 fields
03Classification
Where the faculty sits in the international lists of fields.
| Scheme | Code | Steward |
|---|---|---|
| OECD Fields of Research and Development (FORD), Frascati Manual 2015, Table 2.2 | 6.4 | OECD |
| ISCED Fields of Education and Training 2013 (ISCED-F 2013) | 021 | UNESCO Institute for Statistics |
04Courses
No course is listed in this faculty yet.
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