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Programme structure: Music with Innovation (BA) - what's running in 2022/23

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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
Transdisciplinary Group Project 2: Solving Someone's Problem INOV20002 20 Mandatory TB-4
Innovation at Work INOV20004 20 Mandatory TB-4
List A - Students must select at least one option from the following list:
Further Technical Studies MUSI20099 20 Optional TB-1
Writing for Orchestra MUSI20141 20 Optional B,E TB-1
Composing Live Electronics MUSI30141 20 Optional TB-1
Transcription and Editing MUSI20056 20 Optional TB-2
Compositional Strategy MUSI20047 20 Optional TB-2
Performance MUSI20058 20 Optional TB-4
LIST C - Students may select up to one option from List C (but no more than one in each Teaching Block)
Music and the Holocaust MUSI20105 20 Optional TB-2
African-American Music in the 20th Century MUSI20066 20 Optional TB-2
Music in Soviet Russia 1917-1991 MUSI20073 20 Optional TB-2
Opera & Politics MUSI20120 20 Optional TB-2
Music in Times of War MUSI20119 20 Optional TB-1
Opera & Politics MUSI20120 20 Optional TB-2
Medieval Music Palaeography MUSI20123 20 Optional TB-1
When selecting units you are advised to select 20cp from TB1 units and 20cp from TB2 units
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

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Exit awards

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  • 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.

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