Course Content
Year one
Modules
- Audio Culture and Critical Theory
- Playing Live: Creative Performance
- Making Popular Music: Technology and Aesthetics
- Core Music Practice
- Signs & Lyrics: Making Meaning in Popular Music
- Creative Recording: Studio Practice
Year two
Modules
- Creative Writing and Research in Virtual Music Cultures
- Dark Sound: Reading Desire in Popular Music
- Professional Music Practice
- Enterprise: Innovative Practice in Contemporary Music Industries
Optional modules
- Voice
- Timbre
- Supersonic
- The Working Musician: Reproduce; Arrange; Mutate
- The Hit Machine
- The Music Educator
- Music and the Moving Image
- Creative Performance Technology
Placement year (optional)
- You can choose to take an optional placement year after your second year on a three-year programme
Year three
Modules
- Specialist Practice in Context
- Dissertation
- Professional Portfolio