Music, BA (Hons), with industry placement

Our BA in Music is designed to nurture your individual interests in music creation, providing a comprehensive foundation in composition, performance, and musicology that embraces diverse contemporary styles. In the first year, you will build core skills in sonic arts and sound recording, while collaborating with peers for feedback. Later years offer flexible optional modules, such as orchestration or digital performance, allowing you to tailor a personalised pathway for your future career.Taught by renowned composers, performers, and musicologists with strong industry connections, the programme includes access to state-of-the-art facilities like soundproof studios and editing suites. You’ll benefit from guest lectures, London music scene trips, and placement opportunities in record companies or schools. The degree can be studied full-time over three years (with an optional placement year) or part-time over six years, culminating in performances to showcase your talents.

Year 1 Core Modules Reading Resilience Perspectives 1: Introduction to Theatre Studies World Literature, World Literacies Creative Reading Portfolio Ensemble Production Optional Modules Acting: Essential Skills Applied Drama Practice 1: An Introduction Physical Theatre 1: Between Dance and Theatre Theatre Making 1 Digital Performance 1 Musical Theatre 1 Year 2 Core Modules Perspectives Optional Modules Writing 2: Experiments in Language for Performance Physical Theatre 2: Performance and Embodiment Acting Beyond Naturalism Digital Performance 2 Musical Theatre 2: Histories, Practices and Theories The Nineteenth-Century Novel Shakespeare: Text and Performance Modernism Romanticism and Revolution The Women’s Movement: 20th Century and Contemporary Writing Contemporary British and Irish Fiction Genre Fiction Theatre Making 2 Applied Drama 2: Project Performance as Research: Second Year Production Module Post-Colonial Writing Year 3 Core Modules Final Production (Practical) Written Dissertation Project English Project Written Dissertation Single Optional Modules Perspectives 3: Battling with Ideas Professional Experience and Development Advanced Physical Theatre 3 Psychogeography Advanced Musical Theatre 3 Post War and Late 20th Century Literature 1945-2001 Victorian Literature and Culture Jane Austen and Her Novels Writing Ireland The Creative Industries Violence Psychogeography Advanced Acting The Canon Re-loaded New Writing: Page to Stage Chaucer to Shakespeare Creative Industries and Labour Practices Digital Performance and Technology 3 Modern and Contemporary Lesbian Literature Writing Poetry for Performance