PGDip Performance(Part-Time)
Year 2
(Award available for year: Postgraduate Diploma)
Learning outcomes
On completion of the programme students should have shown evidence of being able:• to demonstrate in-depth specialist knowledge of performance techniques and an advanced understanding of concepts informed by knowledge across the discipline;• to exhibit competence in their own area of performance, as well as developing interpretative and/or pedagogical awareness• to take a proactive and self-reflective role in working, through evaluation of their own and others’ class performances,and to develop professional relationships with others, such as fellow-musicians, repetiteurs and/or instrumental/vocal teachers; • to evaluate current issues and research in the discipline, and demonstrate these through performance or in the context of written work.• demonstrate ability as an effective independent learner;
Transferable (key) skills
Masters (Taught), Postgraduate Diploma & Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:• the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity in industry or area of professional practice;• evaluating their own achievement and that of others;• self direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations;• independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;• critically to engage in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.
Assessment
Achievement for the Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the programme and will involve the achievement of the students in:• demonstrating the ability to apply breadth and/or depth of knowledge to a complex specialist area;• drawing on a range of perspectives on an area of study;• evaluating received opinion;• make sound judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.