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MUS3125 – Pop and the State
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Stace Constantinou
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Pop And The State (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Pop And The State, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Popular Music; BA Popular Music (4 Year Programme); BA Popular Music (Top Up);
Description: This module examines the relationship between popular music and the political sphere. In the first instance the focus will be on the role of the state in providing legislative frameworks that inform musical practice. Secondly it will examine how popular music has engaged with protest music, political activism and censorship.
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MUS3127 – Music and Sound Design for Media
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Stace Constantinou
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Music And Sound Design For Media, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Music And Sound Design For Media (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Music Production; BA Music Production (4 Year Programme); BA Popular Music; BA Popular Music (4 Year Programme); BA Popular Music (Top Up);
Description: This module is designed to develop skills in audio production and sound design. Through lectures, seminars and workshops, students will gain an understanding of the context of sound design in media applications including location based media, film and computer games.
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MUS3128 – Performance 3
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Tim Smart
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Performance 3, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Performance 3 (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Popular Music; BA Popular Music (4 Year Programme); BA Popular Music (Top Up);
Description: This module gives the student the opportunity to apply their musical knowledge in areas such as performance, song writing, composition and/or arrangement. The focus is towards collaborative work with accompanying musicological analytic write ups.
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MUS3130 – Music Education
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Tim Smart
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Music Education, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Music Education (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Music Production; BA Music Production (4 Year Programme); BA Popular Music; BA Popular Music (4 Year Programme); BA Popular Music (Top Up);
Description: The Music Education module has been designed to bridge between undergraduate study and post-compulsory teaching qualifications. Much of the content is drawn from PGCE level accompanied by a placement. This module prepares students for teaching by providing information about a wide range of teaching and learning methodologies, theories and practice.
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MUS3135 – The Philosophy of Music
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Tim Smart
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites:
Assessment: STD - The Philosophy Of Music, Coursework: 100% STDFF - The Philosophy Of Music, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Popular Music; BA Popular Music (4 Year Programme); BA Popular Music (Top Up);
Description: Continuing from the work done in Cultural Theory, this module broadens the study beyond the postmodern culture and into the realms of the analytical and the metaphysical. This module explores the lasting legacy of Enlightenment philosophy on contemporary popular music. In particular students will examine how analytical and metaphysical philosophical traditions and approaches have shaped contemporary popular musical practice across a broad range of styles and genres. Critical thinking is the process of active engagement with texts, theories, ideas and information, and it is the basis for any success in the battle of ideas.
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MUS3140 – Innovation in Music Production
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Mark Thursby
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Innovation In Music Production, Coursework: 100% STD - Innovation In Music Production, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Music Production;
Description: Innovation in Music Production enables higher education music production practitioners to develop new ways of thinking about, creating and producing through an object-based programming approach.
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MUS3141 – Sound Design and Music in the Games and Apps Industry
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Michael Bell
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Sound Design And Music In The Games And Apps Industry, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Sound Design And Music In The Games And Apps Industry, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Music Production; BA Music Production (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to deliver a series of projects typical of those presented to sound designers and media composers in industry. Students will develop material for a wide range of text-based mediums, for example: podcasts, radio programmes, games, software applications and the moving image.
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MUS3143 – Advanced Recording and Production: Client Demos
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Mark Thursby
Credit Value: 10
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: NoneNone
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDPM - Advanced Recording And Production: Client Demos (Popular Music), Coursework: 100% STDPF - Advanced Recording And Production: Client Demos (Popular Music) (4 Year Programme With Foundation Year), Coursework: 100% STDMP - Advanced Recording And Production: Client Demos (Music Production), Coursework: 100% STDMF - Advanced Recording And Production: Client Demos (Music Production) (4 Year Programme With Foundation Year), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Music Production; BA Music Production (4 Year Programme); BA Popular Music; BA Popular Music (4 Year Programme); BA Popular Music (Top Up);
Description: The module will enable students to develop their recording and production skills to an advanced level in order to produce recordings which are ready for commercial release on our NN1_Records label. Projects will be achieved by working at the University studio and through working with external partners.
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MUS3144 – Advanced Recording and Production: Final Product
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Mark Thursby
Credit Value: 10
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDMP - Advanced Recording And Production: Final Product, Coursework: 100% STDMF - Advanced Recording And Production: Final Product, Coursework: 100% STDPM - Advanced Recording And Production: Final Product, Coursework: 100% STDPF - Advanced Recording And Production: Final Product, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Music Production; BA Music Production (4 Year Programme); BA Popular Music; BA Popular Music (4 Year Programme); BA Popular Music (Top Up);
Description: The module will enable students to ensure their recording and production skills are to an advanced level by producing recordings which are ready for commercial release on our NN1_Records label. Projects will be achieved by working at the University studio and through working with external partners.
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MUS4121 – Professional Project 40
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Stace Constantinou
Credit Value: 40
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Professional Project 40 (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Professional Project 40, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Popular Music; BA Popular Music (4 Year Programme); BA Popular Music (Top Up);
Description: This module is for students intending to work in practice-based areas of contemporary music and for students interested in developing a project in a related field of popular music that may be either more entrepreneurial or theoretical.
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MUS4125 – Popular Music Dissertation
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Stace Constantinou
Credit Value: 40
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Popular Music Dissertation (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Popular Music Dissertation, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Popular Music; BA Popular Music (4 Year Programme); BA Popular Music (Top Up);
Description: This module provides an opportunity for students to develop, at length, a particular disciplinary interest. This may derive either from study in the first two years of the degree, or from reading and/or practice activities on their own initiative. In either case, they will bring to bear on their subject matter the analytical techniques learnt during their degree.
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MUS4127 – Popular Music Joint Interdisciplinary Dissertation
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Stace Constantinou
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: A joint dissertation module in a second subject must be taken with this module.
Assessment: STD - Popular Music Joint Interdisciplinary Dissertation, Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: This module is available to students registered for Joint Honours (in a Music subject plus another subject). Combined with the co-requisite module in another subject it provides an opportunity for students to complete a 40-credit dissertation on a topic which links the two subjects studied.