BA (Hons) Music (Education)

Module: 4MU085

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module develops core musicianship skills for professional performers through individual and small-group vocal or instrumental work, developing experience of repertoire, improvisation and interpretation.

Module: 4MU078

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module focuses on developing your understanding of policies and procedures such as the promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion in teaching, safeguarding legislation and keeping children and young people safe in education . The module will help you to understand child development so that you can promote positive behaviour or manage challenging and inappropriate behaviour in the classroom. Lesson planning and micro-teaching activities will give you the opportunity to gain some classroom experience through micro-teaching exercises. Reflective tasks and professional discussions will help you to explore how you can develop creativity within your teaching practice and subject discipline.

Module: 4MU087

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module aims to develop the rounded and varied skills that are needed in the modern music graduate. It combines academic study and the development of academic skills in music (such as critical thinking, editing, transcription and realisation) with an understanding of the role of music in contemporary culture. Students will be asked to attend concerts and workshops throughout the West Midlands and to engage with performers and artists in order to make the essential connections required for their future career. This is a developmental module as much as a skills-based one. It will help students to explore their creativity, develop a personal voice and to explore music from a historical and cultural perspective. The module will be taught via a mixture of lectures, seminars, workshops, visits and practical activities.

Module: 4MU079

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module explores the community and therapeutic settings in which musicians work. You will learn about the place of music in a variety of settings such as education and healthcare. You will experience the interrelationships between arts, society, community and music therapy. This module is about understanding both the types of community where music might be used therapeutically and the underpinnings of running a creative and ethical community music or therapeutic project.

Module: 4SW003

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

In this module you will explore a range of performance strategies and styles in order to develop creative and collaborative interdisciplinary skills. The module combines performance practice and the development of academic skills (such as critical thinking, discussion, interpretation and analysis) with an understanding of the role of the performer in a collaborative production. This module culminates in a performance for a public venue or digital platform. The production will be tutor-led, though not necessarily tutor-directed. Performance material will be selected by the module lecturers and will be responsive to changing social, and cultural contexts. The production may be developed for a large ensemble or several small ensembles and may be performed in a theatre, on film or across a range of non- conventional venues.

Module: 4MU018

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module provides a practical overview of live sound and lighting for performance. It covers the fundamentals of live sound engineering, including an understanding of the components of a live sound system and how they can best be set up and operated for a live gig. The module will also prepare you to design and operate a lighting rig, with the opportunity to set up and run a variety of equipment.

Module: 4MU086

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module will enable you to develop your understanding of key lyric writing and structural techniques and then apply these skills in the development of original songwriting work.

Module: 4MU088

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Optional

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module introduces you to the music and instruments of other cultures. Your contribution to the weekly rehearsal process is a core element of this module. Through weekly performance activities and seminars, you will explore issues of cultural identity and performance context. The module will also consider the ways in which these instruments are used in Western society.

Module: 5MU071

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module encourages you to develop the habits of an enterprising and professional musician by creating solo and performance opportunities through the organization of a monthly lunchtime concert series. In addition to the organizational element of the module and the skills of programming concerts, marketing and audience development, students will be expected to contribute at least one performance to the series during the course of the module. This is an outward facing module that prepares key employability skills for the world of work. You are expected to work collaboratively. This module aims to encourage the development of skills, knowledge and personal attributes necessary to secure gainful employment in music by being proactive, developmental and creative. Collaborative creativity will be demonstrated via the creation of music for either the lunchtime concert series or collaboration with students in dance/drama/animation etc.

Module: 5MU084

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

This module is designed to develop your creative adaptability by working towards a range of contrasting briefs, which support your collaborative skills within creative contexts. You will develop your compositional and arranging skills through engagement with existing practices and small skills-based tasks. You will be creating both individual projects and collaborating in groups to make music designed for educational, performance and participatory scenarios.

Module: 5MU075

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Walsall Campus

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