Popular Music (Taught) 12 months Postgraduate Programme By University of Chester |TopUniversities

Popular Music (Taught)

Programme Duration

12 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

12,450 GBPTuition Fee/year

Main Subject Area

Performing ArtsMain Subject Area

Programme overview

Main Subject

Performing Arts

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

Our MA in Popular Music has pathways in: performance; songwriting and composition; and music studies. Initially, you will follow a core curriculum that seeks to contextualise your own practice and start an engagement with the general field of study. Our course offers you the opportunity to shape your learning through a series of modules that will enable you to integrate scholarly work with your own practice as a musician, composer or musicologist. Our modules consider current theoretical and practical debates in the subject area, and will guide you through the kind of research methodologies required at Master's level.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Performing Arts

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

Our MA in Popular Music has pathways in: performance; songwriting and composition; and music studies. Initially, you will follow a core curriculum that seeks to contextualise your own practice and start an engagement with the general field of study. Our course offers you the opportunity to shape your learning through a series of modules that will enable you to integrate scholarly work with your own practice as a musician, composer or musicologist. Our modules consider current theoretical and practical debates in the subject area, and will guide you through the kind of research methodologies required at Master's level.

Admission Requirements

6.5+
3.2+
Applicants will normally hold a 1st or 2:1 honours degree in a related subject. Consideration will be given to those who hold a lower classification who can demonstrate they are capable of performing at the level required to complete the course successfully. Where applicants are not progressing directly from a degree, professional experience and expertise may be taken into account.

Applicants will be expected to attend an audition and/or interview in order to demonstrate their suitability for the course.

1 Year
Jan-2000

Tuition fees

Domestic
5,085 GBP
International
12,450 GBP

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