Music Education
Bachelor's degree
In Aberdeen
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Aberdeen (Scotland)
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Duration
4 Years
Develop skills to teach in secondary schools. Suitable for: Those who wish to pursue a career in music.
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Course programme
Structure & Content
First and Second Year Core Study
- Performance Studies includes individual tuition, keyboard skills, ensembles, rehearsing and directing.
- Composition Studies includes creative work alongside music theory and courses in harmony and arranging.
- Cultural & Historical Studies covers music from 900 to the end of the nineteenth century, aspects of contemporary musical culture, a survey of music in Scotland and art music from eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Third & Fourth Year (Honours)
- Performance Studies - Students continue with instrument (or voice)throughout the programme.
- Composition Studies - Students work on developing their own personal voices in whichever genre they find they have strengths. For students choosing composition in fourth year, this culminates in the submission of a composition portfolio.
- Cultural & Historical Studies - Music education students study twentieth-century music during their third year. In the fourth year students may choose to give a 45 minute oral presentation resulting from a research-led project.
- Professional Studies - Professional Studies comprises Education Studies (the study of music teaching and pedagogy), Keyboard Skills and School Experience. The professional development of the student is achieved through Education Studies and through the interaction between this and School Experience. Professional competencies are developed in continuity with the progressive acquisition and application of subject and content skills provided by the student's Core Studies programme. In first and second year, experiences related to the subject and content of music generate consideration and appraisal of curricular resources, and of different approaches to presenting these resources in school.
- School Experience - Students spend a total of 20 weeks in schools over the programme; in second year, four weeks are spent in a secondary school and its associated primary schools and community groups; in third and fourth year, students undergo 8 week blocks in secondary schools.
Teaching & Assessment
Teaching is by a mixture of lectures, seminar groups and tutorials. Assessment will usually be based on a mix of submitted work and examinations. During the programme emphasis is increasingly laid on students' own independent work.
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Music Education