Honours Lab
Do you like to go the extra mile, are you curious and do you want to be intellectually challenged? If so, the ArtEZ Honours Lab is for you. The Honours Lab offers various tracks throughout the year that you can follow alongside to your regular study course curriculum. These are diverse, in-depth courses in which you will engage with current theories, practices and forms of research.

What you will be doing
Deepen your artistic and other research skills in a multidisciplinary environment, choosing from a diverse range of challenging tracks (in English). In the Honours Lab, you will work with fellow students from all years and from other courses – immersing yourself in theoretical and practice-related topics and critical dialogue. Follow one or more tracks in addition to your regular course, spread flexibly over your studies, and earn certificates that you can use for follow-up courses.
With the tracks of the Honours Lab you will venture off the beaten track of your study course. You will challenge yourself intellectually and broaden your horizons. How? By entering into a dialogue with others (usually once a week), asking critical questions, exchanging ideas and looking for new insights and perspectives together. The course includes relevant texts and discussions, but also guest lectures, workshops and excursions. The assignments you will be given are aimed at conducting (artistic) research.
Curious about what a day in the Honours Lab is like? Read this article that recently appeared in Vox magazine, the independent magazine of Radboud University. Here, students from RE:PLACE, one of the tracks of the honours lab, share their experience and motivation.
I feel that through exploring and discussing a variety of viewpoints over the past six months, I have come to better understand my own perception and understanding of the world.
Tracks
The tracks of the Honours Lab combine theoretical depth and artistic practice. You'll work with fellow students from different years and courses: students from ArtEZ, but also from Radboud University Nijmegen, for example. We investigate arts discilines together in a multidisciplinary environment, based on contemporary art practice and the contemporary art discourse. Where do concepts and opinions meet? Do the arts speak the same language?
For each track you wish to follow, you must write a short letter of motivation. The contents of your letter and the composition of the group will determine wheter you are admitted or not.
Some examples of current and previous tracks:
Registration and certificate for completed track(s)
The tracks of the Honours Lab are expressed in ECTS (2.5 or 5 or 7.5 ECTS) to indicate their size. These credits do not count towards your current course, but are valid after you graduate. If you have successfully completed an Honours track, it will be recorded in the student monitoring system (Osiris). If you have obtained a total of 30 ECTS, you will receive a certificate with your diploma in addition to the registration of the Honours tracks. Taking Honours tracks may be advantageous if you wish to gain admission to a follow-up course at a university or university of applied sciences.
Werkplaats theorie
Are you enthusiastic about Honours Lab? Werkplaats Theorie might also be interesting for you. Werkplaats Theorie is a workplace that strives to reduce the divide between theory (making) and creative work (making). It is a multidisciplinary place where you as a student can go with all kinds of questions, just like the other workplaces.
Practical
In order to avoid clashing with regular courses, the tracks mainly take place in the evenings and weekends. The tracks are offered in Arnhem, Zwolle and Enschede.
The Honours Lab is led and organised by the Theory in the Arts lectureship, which has close links to the other ArtEZ lectureships and external partners such as Radboud University Nijmegen.
If you would ou like to know more about the Honours Lab or have any questions, please contact us via e-mail: honourslab@artez.nl.
Completing the Honours Lab track Where is the Artist? has had an enormous impact on my way of thinking and approaching dance and art. I found the Honours Lab a great addition to my studies. The track fed me with a lot of ideas and challenged the way I thought. It helped me develop a critical, yet open mind and has contributed to my choreographical knowledge and art making.