Creativity and Arts in Social and Health Fields, Master's Degree

This pre-assignment applies only to the joint application for studies starting in the autumn term of 2025.

All applicants in Creativity and Arts in Social and Health Fields (CRASH) degree programme are expected to prepare and return a pre-assignment based on the instructions below. The pre-assignment is assessed on a pass/fail scale. The applicants are invited to the entrance exam only, if they pass the pre-assignment and meet all eligibility requirements (i.e. required background education and work experience).

In the pre-assignment, the applicants are invited to introduce themselves and their thinking on how social and health field contexts could benefit from creativity and arts. Please follow the instructions carefully, as failing to do so also means a failed pre-assignment.

The pre-assignment consists of two elements:

1) APPLICANT. The aim is to create a fruitful and supportive student group of professionals in CRASH, where diverse approaches and fields of work are represented.

As part of the pre-assignment, you are expected to describe in a concise and concrete way:

• What CRASH degree programme related education, work experience and competences do you personally have?
• Based on your life and work experience, what areas of using creativity and arts in social and health fields interest you in particular?
• How do you feel you could contribute to working in the CRASH student group?

2) DEVELOPMENT IDEA. Your studies in CRASH include a development project and thesis, which boldly develops working life practices. The applicants are requested to think in advance, from the point of view of their own professional experience, what area of development they would like to focus on during their studies in CRASH. The development idea doesn’t need to be fully finalized. It’s good to allow for flexibility, because in the beginning of studies, the aim is to form pairs or small groups for student projects, where multidisciplinary exchange of ideas and learning are possible. The idea presented in the pre-assignment can serve as the basis of the student’s Master’s Thesis, or it can be modified as the studies progress.

As part of the pre-assignment, you are expected to describe in a concise and concrete way:

• What area do you tentatively think you would like to develop in your project or thesis, and on what grounds?
• Do you already have some potential collaboration partners in mind for these development processes?

The pre-assignment is written in English, it has the maximum of 6000 characters (approx. 2 pages of A4). Visual elements are allowed but not necessary. The pre-assignment must be attached to your application at studyinfo.fi in PDF format by the end of the application period.
Name the document: last name_first name_pre-assignment.pdf

The pre-assignment is used to assess the following:

• Capacity of the applicant to follow instructions and to express themselves in their own words (as opposed to copying answers created by artificial intelligence)
• Motivation of the applicant towards developing working life practices making use of creativity and arts in the social and health fields
• Ability to identify problems related to working life and/or society and build the development idea in relation to them
• Relevance and currentness of and argumentation for their development idea
• Suitability of the background education of the applicant*

In the CRASH degree programme the pre-assignment will be used to determine which applicants are invited to the entrance exam as well as with whom an individual interview during the entrance exam days should be arranged. The applicants should prepare their pre-assignment independently in order to present their own thinking and skills. For example, with regards to language skills, English will be assessed only during the entrance exam and therefore it isn’t necessary to produce faultless English in the pre-assignment. The pre-assignment and entrance exam are designed to assess your abilities to manage and succeed in the study program. Therefore, please refrain from using AI-based tools in your assignments.

* Metropolia is entitled to grant only the following diplomas for CRASH graduates and therefore the educational background of the applicant should have a clear connection with them.

Master of Culture and Arts, which in Finnish translates into one of the following:

Konservaattori (ylempi AMK)

Kulttuurituottaja (ylempi AMK)

Medianomi (ylempi AMK)

Muotoilija (ylempi AMK)

Muusikko (ylempi AMK)

Musiikkipedagogi (ylempi AMK)

Vestonomi (ylempi AMK)

Master of Social Services and/or Health Care, which in Finnish translates into one of the following:

Apuvälineteknikko (ylempi AMK)

Bioanalyytikko (ylempi AMK)

Ensihoitaja (ylempi AMK)

Fysioterapeutti (ylempi AMK)

Geronomi (ylempi AMK)

Jalkaterapeutti (ylempi AMK)

Kätilö (ylempi AMK)

Optometristi (ylempi AMK)

Osteopaatti (ylempi AMK)

Röntgenhoitaja (ylempi AMK)

Sairaanhoitaja (ylempi AMK)

Sosionomi (ylempi AMK)

Suuhygienisti (ylempi AMK)

Terveydenhoitaja (ylempi AMK)

Toimintaterapeutti (ylempi AMK)

In order to be considered for the student selection, you must fill in the joint application form at Studyinfo.fi during the application period 8 January - 22 January 2025. The pre-assignment must be submitted as an attachment to the electronic joint application form during the application period, by 22 January 2025 3:00 p.m. the latest (local time in Finland).
File formats according to the assignment.

Pre-assignments for spring 2025 Joint Application 1 will be published by the beginning of the application period.

In order to be considered for student selection, you must pass the degree programme's own entrance examination as described in Studyinfo.fi. Entrance exam invitations are sent approximately one week before the entrance exam by email to the email address provided by the applicant on the application form.

Find out about the entrance examination and the selection criteria for your degree programme of choice in Studyinfo.fi.