BA Music with Enterprise

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- undertake an independent dissertation on a focused aspect of music (or music and enterprise), with individual supervision, and produce an advanced piece of writing;
- apply advanced historical, analytical, critical and comparative methodologies to the articulation and development of arguments including recent developments in musical scholarship;
- demonstrate an increased self-reliance in chosen musical disciplines leading to professional competency;
- critically appreciate forms of entrepreneurship and enterprising activity in relation to economic and societal outcomes on local and global levels;
- critically examine relevant enterprise development processes in relation to appropriate personal, industry and subject-specific issues
- have a strong understanding of how theory and practice interact, and be able to integrate elements from different sub-disciplines to produce work of an integrated nature;
- demonstrate a high level of presentation skills;
- conform to professional boundaries and norms where appropriate;
- demonstrate an awareness of the ambiguity and limitations of source materials.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- the transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment related to the area(s) studied;
- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility, including team working
- the deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations;
- the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences;
- the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in-depth enquiry within the discipline;
- work that is typically both evaluative and creative;
- demonstrating the ability to complete extended pieces of independent work on subjects in both theoretical and practice-led areas, sometimes integrating the two.