As well as practical projects, you will learn about popular music from many perspectives. You will explore the key themes of performance and improvisation, composition and arranging, theory and analysis, history and cultural studies, music and sound technology, and how the music industry works. The following modules are attached to this award: Year One * Ensemble Studies 1 * Creative Forum 1: Composing with Music Technology, Theory and Aural Perception * The History of Popular Music and the Production Industries * Creative Forum 2: Arranging, Music Technology and Theory * Creative Group Project 1 * Instrumental Studies 1 * Musical Cultures Year Two * Contemporary Musical Cultures * Music Industry Practice * Musicology * Creative Forum 3: Composition and Music Technology * Creative Forum 4: Advanced Arranging, Composition, Studio Recording & Production * * Ensemble Studies 2 * Music and Performance Year Three * Dissertation * Entrepreneurship and Business Project * Improvisational Approaches * Composition for Media * Performance Portfolio * Songwriting NOTE – Modules are subject to change

By the time you graduate, you will have the skills for a wide range of careers in the music, media and entertainment industries, including performance, composition, administration, promotion, multi-media production, and studio work. We have graduates working in the music industry as performers, composers, writers, promoters and administrators, teachers and musicians in the community, as well as those working in new media such as the computer games industry.