University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy

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The Viljandi Culture Academy (Estonian: Tartu Viljandi Ülikooli Kultuuriakadeemia, in short: TÜ MCA ) is a location in the Estonian town of Viljandi higher education institution for applied cultural subjects.

Task

The Viljandi Culture Academy is since 2005 one of the five colleges of the University of Tartu. The Academy offers a course of study at technical college and university level.

The focus of study and research at the Academy are in the fields of culture and education Performing Arts. In addition to dance and choral conducting to the offered Studienrichtichtungen folk music and theater professions include ( theater manager, light and sound director and set designer ).

The academy has about 1,000 students, of whom attend half a correspondence course. Teaching and instruction based on the continuity and sustainability of traditional Estonian culture, enriched by new ideas that contribute to the broadening of the definition of traditional culture.

Director of TÜ VKA is the folklorist Anzori Barkalaja (* 1968).

History

The institution was founded in 1952 in Tallinn. Task was the training of librarians and heads of houses of culture in the former Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1960 he moved the training center into mittelestnische Viljandi. From 1978, it was called Viljandi Kultuurikool ( " Viljandi Culture School ").

With restoration of Estonian independence, she changed her name in Viljandi Kultuurikolledž. Since 2003, it bears the name Viljandi Kultuuriakadeemia. In August 2005, the hitherto independent university autonomous part of the University of Tartu.