Programme structure: Music with Innovation (MArts) - what's running in 2018/19

This Integrated Master's programme has been designated as type III: Professional in accordance with the QAA descriptors for Master's programmes. Please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes for further information on this type of programme.

Minimum requirement of pass mark 40% in each unit

Students must achieve a year mark of 50 or more out of a hundred at the end of the second year to be able to progress on to the four year programme.

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Faculty of Arts Category	Teaching Block
Students must take ONE of the core units MUSI20142 / 3 Approaches to Music History I / II
Approaches to Music History I	MUSI20142	20	Mandatory		TB-1
Approaches to Music History II	MUSI20143	20	Mandatory		TB-2
Past, Present and Futures	INOV20001	10	Mandatory		TB-2
Transdisciplinary Group Project 2: Solving Someone's Problem	INOV20002	20	Mandatory		TB-4
List A - Students must select at least one option in each Teaching Block from the following list:
Compositional Strategy	MUSI20047	20	Optional		TB-2
Further Technical Studies	MUSI20099	20	Optional		TB-1
Transcription and Editing	MUSI20056	20	Optional		TB-2
Studio Composition Live	MUSI20057	20	Optional		TB-1
Performance	MUSI20058	20	Optional		TB-4
Writing for Orchestra	MUSI20141	20	Optional		TB-1
Analytical Techniques I: Schenkerian Approaches	MUSI20060	20	Optional		TB-2
LIST C - Students may select up to two options from List C (but no more than one in each Teaching Block)
The Film Musical	MUSI20144	20	Optional		TB-1
African-American Music in the 20th Century	MUSI20066	20	Optional		TB-1
Music in Soviet Russia 1917-1991	MUSI20073	20	Optional		TB-2
Music and Sex	MUSI20111	20	Optional		TB-2
Opera & Politics	MUSI20120	20	Optional		TB-2
Music in Times of War	MUSI20119	20	Optional		TB-2
Inside Medieval Music	MUSI20113	20	Optional		TB-1
Introduction to Computer Programming	EMAT10007	10	Optional		TB-1
Human-Computer Interaction	COMS21301	10	Optional		TB-1
Opera & Politics	MUSI20120	20	Optional		TB-2
20 credit points of Open Units	OPEN	20	Optional
Students may take up to 20CP of open units such as a language but note this will take them to 130CP for their second year
Diploma of Higher Education		120

Progression/award requirements

Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:

• 40 out of 100 – for level C/4, I/5 & H/6 units
• 50 out of 100 – for level M/7 units

For details on the weightings for classifying undergraduate degrees, please see the Agreed Weightings, by Faculty, to be applied for the Purposes of Calculating the Final Programme Mark and Degree Classification in Undergraduate Programmes.

For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.

Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.

Exit awards

All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.

• To be awarded a Diploma of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 240 credit points, of which at least 90 must be at level 5.
• To be awarded a Certificate of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 120 credit points at level 4.

Integrated Master's degrees may also allow the opportunity for a student to exit from the programme with an equivalent Bachelor's degree where a student has achieved 360 credit points, of which 90 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.

The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).