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MA Critical and Applied Musicology(Part-Time)

Year 2

(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.

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