Bachelor of Art Music

Year 1 starts by strengthening the foundations of your musical knowledge and understanding with modules in theory, music technology, and performance.

In Semester 2, an intensely practical module develops your composition and ensemble direction work; your study of music history continues; and you may choose between a performance module and a musicology module which looks at the culture of popular music.

Year 2 allows you to develop your performance along with your understanding of a range of musical styles from cultural and historical perspectives, and we turn our attention towards the many-faceted creative arts industry in a module which introduces you some of our fantastically talented and versatile fellow-professionals from the UK and around the world. Options this year include modules in performance, media music, an introduction to music psychology, and your first opportunity to work on a creative project of your own devising.

The modules in Year 3 prepare you for a career in the creative arts industry as a versatile creative practitioner; you end up with skills, understanding, and an impressive portfolio of knowledge and work. Whether you choose work on performance, composition for film, instrumental/vocal teaching, arts and health, and/or more individual project work, the emphasis throughout is on your development as an autonomous practitioner: a brief glance at the third-year modules will show you straightaway that you are given tremendous latitude in decisions about focus and realisation in your work.

The University has general minimum entry requirements which all students must meet before they register with us.

At the point of registration onto the first year of a degree, we require you to have achieved:

• a minimum of two A Levels or
• a BTEC National Diploma or
• a combination of BTEC and A Level qualifications equivalent to two A Levels, such as a BTEC subsidiary certificate and one A Level or
• an Access to Higher Education Diploma or
• an International or Welsh Baccalaureate or
• a Higher National Diploma/Higher National Certificate or
• a minimum of two Advanced Highers from Scotland or
• the Irish Leaving Certificate or
• the European Baccalaureate Diploma or
• an equivalent overseas qualification.