Optional Subjects

NB! First-year BA and MA students are no longer able to register for optional courses, as starting from the 2026/27 academic year, there is no mandatory amount of optional courses in the curricula. If there are any places available in optional courses after the end of the registration period, first-year students will have the opportunity to join them. We will forward the relevant information to the student mailing list.

Exception: First-year students can register for Estonian language courses during the registration period!

Registration for optional courses in the 2026/27 autumn semester will be taking place from Thursday, 27.08.26 at 9AM until Friday, 28.08.26 at 5PM in the study information system Tahvel. Registration guide will be sent to all the students via email and can also be found HERE.

FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE:

VA180S26 Lectures on Contemporary Architecture (2 ECTS)

VA396 Reading Material, Materially Reading – Feminist Study Group with Material Explorations (3 ECTS)

VA319 Landscape Interiors: Domesticating the Landscape (3 ECTS)

VA424 Dancing the Problem (3 ECTS)

VA425 Generative AI for Interior Architecture (3 ECTS)

VA426 De-signing Techno-living Spaces: A Semiotic Approach to Technology and Inhabitation (3 ECTS)

FACULTY OF DESIGN:

VA355 Experimental Free-Motion Machine and Hand Embroidery Workshop: Stitch-Sensory-Story (3 ECTS)

VA234I Metal Workshop 1 (1 ECTS)

ES6141I Jewellery Basics (2 ECTS)

ES6103 Technology – Basic Course of Blacksmithing (2 ECTS)

VA410 Painting (3 ECTS)

VA254 Clay 3D Printing (2 ECTS)

DT6176 Põime / Braiding and Weaving (both in Estonian and English) (3 ECTS)

VA423 Design your voice (3 ECTS)

VA422 Painting: Figurative and abstract exrpession (3 ECTS)

FACULTY OF ART AND CULTURE:

RM7053 Heritage Crisis Management – Reduction and Response (2 ECTS)

KT6141 Estonian Art and Heritage – Current Perspectives (3 ECTS)

FACULTY OF FINE ARTS:

VA263 Stuudiofoto (töö esemetega) / Studio Photography (working with objects) (both in Estonian and English) (3 ECTS)

VA380 Akvatinta meetodid ja sügavtrükk / Aquatint Techniques and Intaglio Printing (both in Estonian and English) (3 ECTS)

VA418 Materjalide maraton / Marathon of Materials (both in Estonian and English) (3 ECTS)

VA384 2D Animation (3 EAP)

VA382 Typography in Motion (3 EAP)

VA383 Cinematheque: Poetics of Cinema (3 EAP)

GENERAL THEORY CENTRE:

ESTA1.2 Estonian Language A1.1 – A1.2 (4 ECTS)

ESTA2.2 Estonian Language A2.1 – A2.2 (4 ECTS)

VA419 Modernism in Cities (3 EAP)

VA386 Creative Content with Digital Platforms (3 EAP)

VA420 Classical Mythology (3 EAP)

ER06 Exhibiting: Artist as a Nomad (6 ECTS)

VA100S Chamber Choir EKA (2 ECTS)