Songwriting and Music Production

What will I study?

You will receive interactive lectures, seminars, and tutorials, with practical and studio-based teaching. You will have opportunities to collaborate with other music students, film makers and digital animators, and to benefit from the input of movers and shakers in the music industry visiting our University on a regular basis.

Course content

The BSc (Hons) in Songwriting and Music Production focuses on the technical and creative aspects of developing a career as a songwriter.

You will explore a wide range of songwriting techniques through a variety of projects. Lectures and coursework investigate music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with a particular emphasis on current, commercial, and popular trends in song writing. Whilst the course’s focus is on the widest interpretation of ‘song,’ other forms of commercially based activities - sound for media, commercials and other applications of music that can be profitable for the composer will be explored.

There will be opportunities to perform your songs as part of the course and in a range of extra-curricular events. Open Days, music industry events, exhibitions, student ‘Jam Jar’ gigs and other festival events allow students to showcase their work in public. The course reflects the cultural, social, and creative aspects of the discipline in seeking collaborative opportunities within the School of Creative Arts.

With the input of industry professionals, you will investigate techniques as used by some of the world's most successful songwriters. You will study the business aspects of popular music culture and how this works within the music industry.

Most of all, you will be an entrepreneurial musician - someone who has talent as a songwriter and has the ability to get their music out there.

Level 4

Module

• Techniques and Technology 1
• Learning Skills
• Perspectives of Music 1
• Songwriting and Performance 1

Level 5

Module

• Techniques and Technology 2
• Studies and Investigations 2
• Perspectives of Music 2
• Songwriting and Performance 2
• Professional Work Experience 30: Music

Level 6

Module

• Year Abroad
• Perspectives of Music 3
• Project (Songwriting)
• Techniques and Technology 3
• Studies and Investigations 3
• Perspectives of Music 3
• Project (Songwriting)
• Techniques and Technology 3 (Version 2)
• Studies and Investigations 3 (Version 2)
• Sandwich Year (Creative Arts)