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Research project - MUS00060M

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  • Department: Music
  • Credit value: 60 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
  • Notes: This is an independent study module

Related modules

Pre-requisite modules

Co-requisite modules

  • None

Prohibited combinations

  • None

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Summer Term 2022-23 to Summer Vacation 2022-23

Module aims

  • To facilitate a large-scale independent project, which identifies and directly engages with the current state of an area of Production practice, analysis and/or theory and undertakes work that employs appropriate research methods to solve problems and/or answer questions in this area. The outcomes of this research may be a set of productions with commentary that demonstrate new practice or closely mimic other productions as a form of analysis, wholly or largely dissertation based work that analyses existing productions or develops and test theories about aspects of production, or a combination of the first two of these.

Module learning outcomes

Subject Content:

  • Students should have an insight into how practice-led, theoretical or analytical research related to Production can be devised and conducted to produce new art and knowledge.
  • Students should be able to undertake and manage a large-scale project that engages directly with current knowledge and/or practice in an area of Production.
  • Students should be able to articulate the outcomes of research activities as practical artefacts and a commentary, a dissertation or a combination of these.

Academic and graduate skills

  1. Autonomous task planning and implementation
  2. Ability to advance individual knowledge and understanding
  3. Initiative
  4. Problem solving
  5. Flexibility and adaptability
  6. Commitment and motivation
  7. Analytic skills
  8. Self-management
  9. Self-motivation
  10. Organisation and planning
  11. Lateral thinking
  12. Time management and prioritisation
  13. Engagement with the unfamiliar
  14. Independent learning
  15. Reviewing progress

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Graduate/Postgraduate Dissertation 100

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Graduate/Postgraduate Dissertation 100

Module feedback

Comments and marks within two days of the final Exam Board.

Indicative reading

Relevant texts from pre-requisite modules


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