Propaedeutic course

The preparatory course is offered in the winter semester, i.e. before the start of the Master's degree program, and offers the opportunity to acquire the basic knowledge required to meet the admission requirements from the business or artistic fields at the Faculty of Economics at htw saar, Saarland University of Music and Saarland University of Fine Arts within a semester preceding the Master's degree program. This enables applicants who have completed their Bachelor's degree with fewer than 210 ECTS credits, but at least 180 ECTS credits, to make up the maximum of 30 ECTS credits missing. An official document will of course be issued as proof of achievement for the work completed in the preparatory course.

The preparatory course includes the following content:

• General business administration
• Corporate management and personnel
• Operational key figures, accounting and taxes
• marketing
• logistics
• law
• Methods of empirical social research

For graduates of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, the basics of the artistic disciplines "Musicology" and "Aesthetics, Art/Design Science" as well as the methods of empirical social research are offered.
The Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at htw saar, the Saarland University of Music and the Saarland University of Fine Arts define a catalog of courses for the preparatory course each year for the winter semester, as posted on the notice board.

In detail, the preparatory course includes an individual combination of the following courses, depending on previous education:

• BAKM-010 Introduction to Business Administration (3 ECTS)
• BAKM-020 Corporate Management and Human Resources (3 ECTS)
• BAKM-030 Business ratios, accounting and taxes (6 ECTS)
• BAKM-040 Marketing (6 ECTS)
• BAKM-050 Logistics (3 ECTS)
• BAKM-060 Introduction to Law (3 ECTS)
• BAKM-070 Empirical Social Research (6 ECTS)

• BAKM-015 Cultural Practice (2 SWS)
• BAKM-025 Fundamentals of Music I (2 SWS)
• BAKM-035 Fundamentals of Music II (2 SWS)
• BAKM-045 Fundamentals of Music III (2 SWS)

(Elective area according to the course catalog of the HfM for Cultural Management students)

• BAKM-019 Fundamentals of Aesthetics, Art and Design I (2 SWS)
• BAKM-029 Fundamentals of Aesthetics, Art and Design Studies II (2 SWS)
• BAKM-039 Fundamentals of Aesthetics, Art and Design Sciences III (2 SWS)
• BAKM-049 Fundamentals of Aesthetics, Art and Design Sciences IV (2 SWS)

(Elective area according to the HBK course catalog for cultural management students)