New curriculum for Solothurn's baccalaureate schools
A cantonal curriculum will be introduced at the two high schools in Solothurn in the 2014/2015 school year. It replaces the previous school curricula of the Olten and Solothurn baccalaureate schools. The detailed objectives for the subject of music have also been defined.
After more than fifteen years, the grammar schools in Olten and Solothurn are receiving a new standardized cantonal curriculum. Around two years ago, the cantonal government instructed the Department of Education and Culture to fundamentally revise the curricula that had been in place since 1998.
For the curriculum, music is "a producing and reproducing art as well as an object of intellectual and aesthetic debate". These facets are also reflected in the variety of fields of study in tertiary educational institutions, such as musicology or ethnomusicology.
The Solothurn curriculum with detailed objectives for music as a basic, core or supplementary subject is available online at www.ksso.ch/klp or www.kantiolten.ch/klp.
