Music, BA (Hons), with industry placement

Discover who you are as a musician and develop the skills you need to thrive in your future career.

• Develop your skills through practical music-making: play, sing, compose, or collaborate every working day.

• Learn how to make a difference in the world through your music: in communities, for wellbeing and in education settings.

• Ready yourself for a viable and sustainable career in the wider music sector.

Music is central to everything you do. You like playing it, making it, listening to it, and thinking about it. It is who you are. The course draws on your passion for music and your inquisitiveness to open up ways that your interests and skills as a musician can be applied in different professional situations. In addition to developing your core skills as a creative musician, you'll explore how music can be used in education and community settings, for health and wellbeing, and as artistic practice, framed by experience of managing projects from an initial idea to its realisation.The focus is on practical work, whether this involves devising music in an ensemble, putting on a public event, recording your own podcast series or developing a professional music service. We focus first and foremost on what you can do as a musician, guiding you to be entrepreneurial in all of the projects you undertake.Throughout the course, you’ll gather evidence of what you can do as you build your career and talk to employers. You’ll also be given the creative space you need to make the kind of music you love.