MA Critical and Applied Musicology
Year 1
(Award available for year: Master of Arts)
Learning outcomes
On completion of the programme students should have shown evidence of being able:• demonstrate advanced competence in a range of methods, approaches, and research techniques appropriate to the scholarly study of music;• demonstrate an ability to evaluate critically the concepts, values and debates informing the discipline;• demonstrate the ability to apply key skills by devising, planning, executing, and reporting on an extended musicological research project in the form of a dissertation or applied musicology project;• to exhibit intellectual confidence and independence of thought;• demonstrate an advanced and comprehensive understanding of the relationship between enquiry, evidence, and interpretation in musicological study;• take a proactive and self-reflective role in working, through the evaluation of own and others’ ideas, and to develop professional relationships with others.
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 degree of Master (taught programme) will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will involve the achievement of the students in:• evidencing an ability to conduct independent in-depth enquiry within the discipline;• 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 and criticising received opinion;• make reasoned judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.