Music, BA (Hons), with industry placement

Develop your musical talents through access to local venues, performers, and state-of-the-art facilities like practice rooms, recording studios, and an award-winning theatre. Benefit from one-on-one tutoring with expert instructors to master instruments and acquire practical, critical, and technical skills. Explore diverse music cultures, composition, and support for disabled performers, while engaging in modules that blend theory with hands-on experience in performance, musicology, sound recording, and therapy. A professional development program offers work placements, performance opportunities, and collaboration with other courses, alongside societies such as gospel choirs and orchestras.In the first year, build foundations in musicianship, Western traditions, global music, composition, and technology through group activities. The second year expands horizons, leading to specializations like music therapy, with an optional placement for employability skills. Final-year studies focus on independent practice in performance, ethnomusicology, and electronic music, allowing specialization via dissertation. Note that modules may change, and this course does not award qualified teacher status.

In your first year, you’ll lay the foundations for an intelligent engagement with creative practice and the world of music through studies in developing musicianship, Western music tradition, the music of diverse cultures, composition and music technology. You will also be involved in group musical activities designed to develop your performance skills. In your second year, you'll broaden your musical horizons; this prepares you to engage wholeheartedly toward your final year and embrace a specialism you enjoy (e.g. music as therapy). Undertake an optional placement year where you can build a number of key employability skills. Put theory into practice, get a taste for your chosen career and expand upon your professional network. In your final year, you'll gain independence in your creative musical practice as you explore performance, ethnomusicology, composition for screen, electroacoustic and electronic music, and community music. You will be able to specialise in a music-related area of your choosing in negotiation with your dissertation supervisor. The modules shown for this course or programme are those being studied by current students, or expected new modules. Modules are subject to change depending on year of entry and up to date information can be found on our website.