Innovate & Experiment

Innovate & Experiment Stacks are short, credit-bearing university courses — 6 credits, built from accredited courses at the University for Continuing Education Krems — built around questions that are timely, emerging, or underrepresented in standard curricula. Some topics arrive before the textbooks do. No prior degree is required.

Journalists, fact-checkers and researchers who need to verify what they are looking at; communications and digital media professionals; lawyers and policy people dealing with evidence and authenticity; cultural heritage staff facing digital transformation; anyone curious about how technology is reshaping culture.

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Image Forensics Lab
Innovate & Experiment · 6-9 credits · Online — synchronous sessions + async work · English
How do you know whether an image is real? This Stack draws on current research in image analysis, media studies, and visual culture to develop practical and theoretical tools for reading images critically. Relevant to professionals from journalism, law, communications, cultural heritage, and digital media, as well as arts and cultural studies specialists.
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Photographic Thinking Studio
Innovate & Experiment · 6 credits · Blended Learning · Deutsch / Englisch
Are you interested in thinking with images instead of only talking about them? What if a photograph could be your argument, your essay, your hypothesis—without needing to be translated into text? What if your camera, scanner, or screen became a reasoning tool, not just a recording device?
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► EXPLORING

Gamify Teaching & Parenting
Innovate & Experiment · 6 credits  · German / English

Public Art Development
Innovate & Experiment · 6 credits  · German / English
 

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• Content that is current, emerging, or at the edge of established disciplinary boundaries
• Format chosen to fit the topic — expect variety across different Stacks
• Accessible to participants from outside arts and cultural studies — several offerings in this category are relevant to professionals from journalism, law, communications, digital media, and other fields
• Flexible participation: Observer, Participant, or Crediting tier — full details on each individual Stack page

Krems Culture Stacks are available at three levels. The tier you choose determines your access, what you receive at the end and the price - but not the quality of the experience.

Observer — €280 for a 6-credit Stack.
Attend the content sessions and receive an attendance statement. Participant — €580.

Full engagement including lab and workshop sessions, with a statement of active participation. Crediting — €980.

Assessed work, individual feedback from faculty, and a certificate recording your learning outcomes and grade.

For 3-credit Stacks the fees are €140, €280 and €480.
For 9-credit Stacks they are €440, €880 and €1,440. Full details are on each Stack page.

Many Master’s and Certificate Programs require electives worth 9 ECTS. A 6-credit Stack combined with a 3-credit Praxis course meets that requirement exactly. Praxis courses come from the module Praxis in Arts & Cultural Studies: Conception & Planning, together with a project, an independent study, research work, an internship, or an Arts & Culture Lab. You work independently, supervised and graded by a faculty member. Praxis is available at the Crediting tier only. If you are studying at UWK or elsewhere and need an elective, ask us which combination fits your programme.

Innovate & Experiment is one of four categories within Krems Culture Stacks, the microcredential system of the Department for Arts & Cultural Studies at the Universität für Weiterbildung Krems. Credits earned at Crediting tier are stackable toward future Certificate Programs and Master's programmes at UWK, and portable to other institutions via standard academic transcript.

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