Music Education MA

This course includes four dedicated music education modules, each with a distinctive focus - Contemporary Issues in Music Education; Comparative International Music Education; Psychology of Musical Learning, Communication and Expression; and Music Education in the UK: Theory and Practice.
You also have the opportunity to develop and enhance your skills as a practitioner by devising, delivering and evaluating a music education project.
You can tailor the course to your own interest by:
selecting one optional module from a wide range of music topics and/or closely related subjects; and
undertaking a major piece of original research on a music education topic of your own choice. This takes the form of a dissertation. You will receive guidance from a specialist tutor plus core modules teaching research, project planning and development skills.
The curriculum is enriched by the eclectic view we take of musical styles and genres at Kingston, exploiting the diversity of a repertoire encompassing western classical music, popular and world musics.
You undertake a variety of forms of assessment, including essays, critiques, position papers, practical projects, presentations, research papers and a dissertation.
We offer a part-time option to enable you to complete your MA alongside other commitments.

broadcast media co-ordinator at the BBC, London;
composer for Jonathan Brooks Music, Cheshire;
education development manager for Art Asia Trust Ltd, Hampshire;
interactive editorial assistant for the BBC, London;
managing director at Forces Recruitment Services, Cambridgeshire;
music production co-ordinator at Michael Paert Music, Surrey; and
pricing and costing executive at British Airways, West Sussex.

A good honours degree in music from either the UK or abroad (this may be in a specialist field such as popular music, music education or music technology). Typical entry qualifications are an honours degree in music at 2.2 or above (2.1 preferred).
We may ask applicants to submit an essay as evidence of strength in written work.