Detail of award: MAJOR, MINOR AND JOINT AWARDS involving POPULAR MUSIC: 2016 entry
Name of award: BA/BSc (Hons) involving Popular Music

In order to achieve the named award above, students must meet all requirements of this award map

STAGE 1

Code	Title	Credits	Status	Pre-Requisites
MUS1124	DAW 1	20	Compulsory	None
MUS1125	Popular Music Studies 1	20	Compulsory	None
MUS1127	Performance 1	20	Compulsory	None

Students must take the compulsory modules

STAGE 2

Code	Title	Credits	Status	Pre-Requisites
MUS2127	Performance 2	20	Compulsory	None #
MUS2125∞	Popular Music Studies 2	20	Compulsory	None #
MUS2124	DAW 2	20	Designated	None #
MUS2126	DAW 3	20	Designated	None #
MUS2130	Composition and Theory 2	20	Designated	None #
MUS2129	Cultural Theory 2	20	Designated	None #
MUS2131	Professional Practice	20	Designated	None

Major students must take MUS2127 and MUS2125 plus two designated modules making 80 credits and must take 40 credits from their minor subject to total 120 level 5 credits.
Joint students must take MUS2127 and MUS2125 plus one designated module making 60 credits and must take 60 credits from their other subject to total 120 level 5 credits.
Minor students must take MUS2127 and MUS2125 making 40 credits and must take 80 credits from their major subject to total 120 level 5 credits.

∞ MUS2125 is the research methods module for this subject. Please note that only one research methods module can be undertaken as part of a Joint Honours award. If your other chosen subject offers a research methods module an additional designated module must be taken in its place from the second award map.

OPTIONAL PLACEMENT YEAR

Code	Title	Credits	Status	Pre-Requisites
HRM2053*	The Placement Year Experience: Organisations in Context	40	Compulsory	None

Students must have successfully completed 100 credits at Level 5 in order to undertake placement

STAGE 3

Code	Title	Credits	Status	Pre-Requisites
MUS4121	Professional Project 40 ^1	40	Designated for Mj	Any two level 5 Popular Music modules or equivalent
MUS4122	Professional Project 20 ^2	20	Designated for Jt	Any two level 5 Popular Music modules or equivalent
MUS4125	Popular Music Dissertation ³	40	Designated for Mj	Compulsory Level 5 modules from appropriate Award Map.
MUS4126	Popular Music Short Dissertation ⁴	20	Designated for Jt	Compulsory Level 5 modules from appropriate Award Map.
MUS4127	Popular Music Joint Interdisciplinary Dissertation ⁵	20	Designated jt	Compulsory Level 5 modules from applicable Award Map
MUS3125	Pop and the State	20	Designated	None
MUS3126	Avant Pop: Experiments in Modern Music	20	Designated	None
MUS3127	Music and Sound Design for Media	20	Designated	None
MUS3128	Performance 3	20	Designated	None
MUS3121	The Record Label 6	20	Designated	None
MUS3129	Advanced Recording and Production⁷	20	Designated	MUS1128 or equivalent
MUS3130	Music Education	20	Designated	None

Major students must take either MUS4121 or MUS4125 plus two designated modules making 80 credits and must take 40 credits from their minor subject to total 120 level 6 credits
Joint students must take designated modules making 60 credits and must take 60 credits in their other subject to total 120 level 6 credits. Joint students must take a dissertation module from one of their subjects, but may instead also undertake an interdisciplinary dissertation joining both subjects together.

Minor students must take two designated modules, not including MUS4121, MUS4122, MUS4125, MUS4126 or MUS4127 making 40 credits and must take 80 credits from their major subject to total 120 level 6 credits.

Students who do not complete the Honours Degree will be eligible for an Ordinary Degree in the named subjects upon successful completion of a minimum of 60 Level 6 credits. These can be from any Level 6 modules, whether identified as compulsory or designated. Where the completed Level 6 credits are from one subject area only, the award title will be Ordinary Degree X WITH Y.  Where the completed Level 6 credits are from both subject areas, the award title will be either Ordinary Degree X WITH Y or Ordinary Degree X AND Y depending on the degree on which the student registered.

¹ Cannot be taken with MUS4122 or MUS4125 or MUS4126 or MUS4127
² Cannot be taken with MUS4121 or MUS4125 or MUS4126 or MUS4127

³ Cannot be taken with MUS4121 or MUS4122 or MUS4126 or MUS4127

⁴ Cannot be taken with MUS4121 or MUS4122 or MUS4125 or MUS4127

5 Cannot be taken with MUS4121 or MUS4122 or MUS4125 or MUS4126 and must be taken with the joint module from a second subject.
6 Cannot be taken with MUS3129
⁷ Cannot be taken with MUS3121

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11/12/2017