2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BSc Mathematics and Music (Industrial)
Programme code: | BS-MATH&MUS4 | UCAS code: | |
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Duration: | 4 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Ian Sapiro | Contact address: | music@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 480
Entry requirements:
AAB from three A-levels including A in Music and A in Mathematics.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Music
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of Music
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
Programme specification:
The programme will aim to:
- introduce students to the major branches of mathematics and music;
- meet the needs of students with varied mathematical, scientific and musical backgrounds and with different aspirations;
- enable students to appreciate the coherence and logical structure of mathematics, and its applicability to music;
- impart an awareness of the values of research and scholarshipin mathematics and music;
- prepare students to work in fields where specific and broadly based advanced mathematical knowledge is required;
- enable students to embark on research in some area of mathematics or music.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must enrol on exactly 120 or 125 credits in each academic year.
Compulsory modules:
Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
MATH1050 | Calculus and Mathematical Analysis | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH1055 | Numbers and Vectors | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH1060 | Introductory Linear Algebra | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH1400 | Modelling with Differential Equations | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MUSS1125 | Music Research Skills | 20 credits |
Optional modules:
Students must study at least 10 credits from the following modules:
MATH1225 | Introduction to Geometry | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH1710 | Probability and Statistics I | 10 credits | Not running in 202425 |
Students must choose 40 credits from the following modules:
MUSS1020 | Understanding Music | 20 credits | ||
MUSS1120 | Music in History and Culture | 20 credits | ||
MUSS1220 | Composition | 20 credits | ||
MUSS1320 | Performance | 20 credits | ||
MUSS1324 | Ensemble Performance | 20 credits | ||
MUSS1620 | Sound, Technology, and Music | 20 credits | ||
MUSS1920 | Introduction to the Psychology of Music | 20 credits |
Students cannot choose both MUSS1320 and MUSS1324.
Students may choose up to 15 credits from the following optional modules:
MATH1515 | Interest Rates and Cashflow Modelling | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH1712 | Probability and Statistics II | 10 credits | Not running in 202425 |
Discovery modules:
Alternatively, up to 10 credits of discovery modules may be chosen.
In all cases the choice of modules is subject to the approval of the Programme Manager.
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must enrol on exactly 120 or 125 credits in each academic year.
Compulsory modules:
Students are required to study the following modules:
MATH2340 | The Mathematics of Music | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2365 | Vector Calculus | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Students need to choose at least one of the following modules.
List A
MATH2022 | Groups and Vector Spaces | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2375 | Linear Differential Equations and Transforms | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Student must choose exactly one module from the following list:
List B
MUSS2123 | Music in the Judeo-Christian Tradition | 20 credits | ||
MUSS2124 | British Music and National Identity | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUSS2125 | Music, Culture, Politics: the Long Sixties | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MUSS2126 | The Tools of Music Making | 20 credits | ||
MUSS2127 | Music and Culture in Late Seventeenth-Century London | 20 credits | ||
MUSS2128 | Duke Ellington and the Twentieth-Century Jazz Environment | 20 credits | ||
MUSS2721 | Music in Context A | 20 credits | ||
MUSS2722 | Music in Context B | 20 credits |
Students are required to study 40 credits from the following optional modules. If you are thinking about taking more than one module coded MUSS282x please contact the Programme Leader.
List C
FOAH2020 | Towards the Future: Skills in Context | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2020 | Interpreting Music | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2220 | Composition | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2320 | Performance | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2324 | Ensemble Performance | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MUSS2520 | Aesthetics and Criticism | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2620 | Music Technology Skills and Techniques | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2820 | Music in Practice | 20 credits | ||
MUSS2822 | Music in Practice | 20 credits | ||
MUSS2823 | Music in Practice | 20 credits | ||
MUSS2824 | Film-Score Creation and Production | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUSS2825 | Opera North: Opera in Practice | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2828 | Synthesizer Ensemble | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUSS2920 | The Psychology of Listening and Performance | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Depending on the choices made in list A, students must choose between 10 and 25 credits from the following list:
List D
MATH2017 | Real Analysis | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2027 | Rings and Polynomials | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2041 | Logic | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2042 | Logic with Computation | 15 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH2051 | Geometry of Curves and Surfaces | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2230 | Discrete Mathematics | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2231 | Discrete Mathematics with Computation | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2391 | Nonlinear Differential Equations | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2535 | Financial Mathematics: Risk | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2545 | Financial Mathematics: Markets | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2600 | Numerical Analysis | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2601 | Numerical Analysis with Computation | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2650 | Calculus of Variations | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2715 | Statistical Methods | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2735 | Statistical Modelling | 10 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH2740 | Environmental Statistics | 10 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH2750 | Introduction to Markov Processes | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2775 | Survival Analysis | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2800 | Mathematics into Schools | 10 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MATH2900 | Maths at Work | 10 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MATH2920 | Computational Mathematics | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Students are only allowed to take at most one of EDUC2071, MATH2800, MATH2900, MUSS2925.
!! IMPORTANT !! When choosing options, students must take into account which modules they intend to take in Year 3 to make sure that they have the necessary prerequisites. Please refer to the information from the Programme Meetings.
In order to progress to Year 3, students must pass at least 40 credits of level 2 MATH modules and 40 credits of level 2 MUSS modules.
Discovery modules:
Students who would like to choose Discovery modules (including Maths or Musics modules) should consult with the Programme Manager.
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Optional modules:
Students are required to choose one of the following modules:
Year4 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must enrol on exactly 120 or 125 credits in each academic year.
Students will be awarded the degree of BSc(Ord) Mathematics and Music if they do not pass a project mdoule.
Optional modules:
Students must choose 120 or 125 credits from lists A, B and C with:
- 60 credits of Music and 60 or 65 credits of Mathematics modules (EDUC3060, COMP3910 and COMP3940 count as Mathematics modules for this purpose);
- at least 100 credits at level 3;
- one or two modules from List A;
- at least 40 credits of MATH modules from List A and B.
Students who wish to enrol on a different split of credits between Music and Mathematics, must get permission frm the Programme Manager.
List A
MATH3001 | Project in Mathematics | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3140 | Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3325 | Applied Project | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
List B
MATH3017 | Calculus in the Complex Plane | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3033 | Graph Theory | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3044 | Number Theory | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3071 | Groups and Symmetry | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3092 | Mixed Models | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3104 | Proof and Computation | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3113 | Differential Geometry | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3120 | Models and Sets | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3143 | Combinatorics | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3153 | Coding Theory | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3195 | Commutative Rings and Algebraic Geometry | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3211 | Metric and Function Spaces | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3216 | Hilbert Spaces and Fourier Analysis | 15 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH3225 | Topology | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3232 | Transformation Geometry | 15 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH3355 | Hamiltonian Systems | 15 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH3365 | Mathematical Methods | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3374 | Linear and Non-Linear Waves | 15 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH3375 | Hydrodynamic Stability | 15 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH3385 | Quantum Mechanics | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3396 | Dynamical Systems | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3397 | Nonlinear Dynamics | 15 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH3414 | Analytic Solutions of Partial Differential Equations | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3424 | Introduction to Entropy in the Physical World | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3458 | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3459 | Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics | 15 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH3475 | Modern Numerical Methods | 15 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH3476 | Numerical Methods | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3491 | Discrete Systems and Integrability | 15 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH3510 | Actuarial Mathematics 1 | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3520 | Actuarial Mathematics 2 | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3532 | Relativity and Cosmology | 15 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH3565 | Mathematical Biology | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3567 | Evolutionary Modelling | 15 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH3620 | Fluid Dynamics 2 | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3714 | Linear Regression and Robustness | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3723 | Statistical Theory | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3734 | Stochastic Calculus for Finance | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3772 | Multivariate Analysis | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3802 | Time Series | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3820 | Bayesian Statistics | 10 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH3823 | Generalised Linear Models | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH3860 | Introduction to Clinical Trials | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MUSS3020 | Analysing Music | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MUSS3120 | The Supernatural in Opera | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUSS3121 | Special Study in Musicology A | 20 credits | ||
MUSS3122 | Special Study in Musicology B | 20 credits | ||
MUSS3128 | Music and Postcolonial Politics | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MUSS3129 | Music as Performance: People, Bodies and Instruments | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MUSS3240 | Composition | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3321 | Performance Platform | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun), Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUSS3324 | Ensemble Performance | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MUSS3340 | Performance | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3420 | Editing and Source Studies | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MUSS3520 | Contemporary Aesthetics | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MUSS3640 | Music Technology | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3820 | Music in the Real World | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MUSS3825 | Opera North: Opera in Practice | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3940 | Music Psychology | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
PHIL3123 | Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHYS3011 | Cosmology | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PHYS3383 | Advanced Quantum Physics | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
List C
EDUC3060 | Mathematics Education | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun), Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2017 | Real Analysis | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2022 | Groups and Vector Spaces | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2027 | Rings and Polynomials | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2041 | Logic | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2042 | Logic with Computation | 15 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH2051 | Geometry of Curves and Surfaces | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2230 | Discrete Mathematics | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2231 | Discrete Mathematics with Computation | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2391 | Nonlinear Differential Equations | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2535 | Financial Mathematics: Risk | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2545 | Financial Mathematics: Markets | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2600 | Numerical Analysis | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2601 | Numerical Analysis with Computation | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2625 | Fluid Dynamics | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2640 | Introduction to Optimisation | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2650 | Calculus of Variations | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2715 | Statistical Methods | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH2735 | Statistical Modelling | 10 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH2740 | Environmental Statistics | 10 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MATH2750 | Introduction to Markov Processes | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2775 | Survival Analysis | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MATH2800 | Mathematics into Schools | 10 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MATH2920 | Computational Mathematics | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3015 | History of Mathematics | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MATH3021 | Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
PHYS3190 | Molecular Simulation: Theory and Practice | 15 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SOEE3151 | Dynamics of Weather Systems | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SOEE3250 | Inverse Theory | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SOEE3410 | Atmosphere and Ocean Climate Change Processes | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Year5 - View timetable
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