Careers and opportunities
On successful completion of this course you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a professional approach to music making in the areas of performance, songwriting and music production in an international context.
- Evaluate and utilise established and experimental approaches to music-making within an international context.
- Demonstrate professional competence in a variety of performance, music-creation, re-creation, and presentation modes and contexts, both conventional and unconventional.
- Apply analytical, reflective, and critical skills to the evaluation of your own work, and to that of others, in the global music industry.
- Manage your own professional development and profile in the music industry.
- Demonstrate that you are an enterprising, creative, innovative, and flexible practitioner able to work with diverse communities within a global context.
- Work in a professional manner so you can effectively function in a range of roles and responsibilities.
There is a strong emphasis within the course on future career paths. This is aimed not only to help you to explore what your chosen career path might be, but also to help build a professional level of business skills and knowledge.
Our graduates pursue careers as performers, sound designers and composers. This degree also enables direct progression to suitable courses while others undertake the appropriate qualifications to become teachers in schools and colleges, or they become freelance instrumental or music theory teachers. Graduates also work with community arts organisations or as arts administrators.