Music (Popular Performance/Creative Music Production) Top-up

The BA (Hons) Music top-up programme offers students the opportunities to work towards both professional and academic outputs, allowing students to graduate and progress onto higher level learning, and careers in relevant industry sectors. Common across both pathways are overarching learning principles which define the ways in which graduates operate in their future careers. Practice as research forms a core thread in creative modules that explore individual areas of development. Students are permitted the freedoms to develop through personal and critical reflection, evaluating their own training needs in respect to industry requirements. This facilitates a personalised learning ethos, with students specialising through direct supervisions and teaching support. Professional outreach is encouraged, offering students opportunities to develop working relationships, and engage with wider industries and professional communities. Examples of practice as research include: the submission of working portfolios to TV/Film sync companies; the delivery of workshops in the adult education sector; the design and development of electronics; the construction and execution of a business plan; a promotional campaign for artist development.