BA (Hons) Music and Live Events Management

Bachelor's degree

In High Wycombe

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    High wycombe

  • Duration

    3 Years

Developed in close consultation with the industry, this distinctive course is ideal for anyone interested in Music Event Management. We’ll give you a firm understanding of this diverse business, and cover the many challenges that it faces. You’ll also spend time exploring the social and cultural factors that affect the production and consumption of popular music.

Facilities

Location

Start date

High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire)
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High Wycombe Campus, Queen Alexandra Road, HP11 2JZ

Start date

On request

About this course

Successful Bucks graduates can look forward with confidence to a career in the world of live music, event management and entertainment. You’ll be qualified for work in event marketing and promotion, festival organisation and tour management. Alternatively, you may choose to pursue a career in stage and venue Management or further your studies at postgraduate level.

Entrepreneurship is taught throughout this degree to give you the skills needed to work as a self-employed professional, or to launch your own business within live music and events management.

A typical offer will be a UCAS Tariff score of 80. A minimum of two full A-levels (or equivalent) is required. Every application is considered on an individual basis.

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Subjects

  • Industry
  • Music
  • Event Management
  • Marketing
  • Live Project
  • Concert Promotion
  • Venue Management
  • Music Entrepreneur
  • Research
  • Digital Music

Course programme

This module map provides a list of the modules that make up your course.

Each module is worth a specified number of credits (typically either 15 or 30 credits for undergraduate courses). Compulsory (or ‘core’) modules cover key subject knowledge, while ‘option’ modules enable you to develop your own interests. For a full-time course you must take modules worth a total of 120 credits at each level of the course. The number of option modules you can take depends on the number of compulsory modules at each level. You can find more information about how your course is structured via the Academic Advice pages.

Our teaching is informed by research and employer requirements, and modules change periodically to reflect developments in the subject area. In addition, where we have insufficient numbers of students interested in an option module, this may not be offered. If an option module does not run, we will advise you as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative module.

The modules available on this course are as follows:

Year 1 Modules
  • Managing your Brand
  • DIY: A Plan for Success
  • Music Cultures and Marketing Principles
  • Not Only Rock 'n' Roll
Year 2 Modules
  • IP and the Music Industry
  • Industry Issues 2
  • Event Management / Live Project
  • Venue Management and Concert Promotion (optional)
  • Venue Management (and Concert Promotion) (optional)
  • Music Entrepreneur
Year 3 Modules
  • Research Methods
  • Digital Music Marketing
  • Dissertation
  • Mosh Pit Politics
  • Music Industry Contracts
  • Strategic Event Management

Additional information

Full Time International, September 2019: £12,000 per year

Full Time Home and EU, February 2020: £9,250 per year

Full Time International, February 2020: £12,000 per year

BA (Hons) Music and Live Events Management

£ 9,250 VAT inc.