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Music Education MA

This masters degree will:

  • introduce you to thinking, research and practice at the forefront of music education
  • enable you to make informed judgements about your own and other people's musical and educational assumptions, values and practices
  • expand your understanding and repertoire of music teaching, evaluation and assessment techniques
  • develop your knowledge and understanding about children's and older students' relationships to music as performers, composers and listeners.

Features

This masters degree provides the opportunity to:

  • work with a highly specialist teaching team and visiting lecturers with international reputations
  • specialise in a range of areas across the psychology, sociology and philosophy of music
  • apply the MA to your own professional and personal situation
  • become part of an international student body
  • join former students in going on to further research, gaining promotions and taking up new professional roles.

Who is this programme for?

Musicians with an interest or involvement in education; music teachers and lecturers; music animateurs; music advisers; peripatetic and private instrumental teachers; and others with an interest in the relationship between music, society and education.

Entry requirements

A good first degree in music or a related area. If you do not meet these requirements, you may be able to qualify through special procedures.

How are you assessed?

By coursework assignments and a 20,000-word dissertation or 10,000-word report.

Attendance

Face-to-face afternoon and evening sessions, plus occasional study days.

More information

We are pleased to invite applications for a Master's studentship offered by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The studentship is worth up to £10,845 + tuition fees, and is available for October 2012 start.

Please apply for your masters by 20 March 2012 and complete and return the AHRC funding application by 16 April 2012.

 

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