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Specialisms and Contexts - MUS00112M

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  • Department: Music
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2023-24
    • See module specification for other years: 2024-25

Module summary

Community Musicians work across a wide range of settings, often with very different priorities, expectations, routines and challenges. This module introduces several key contexts of community music practice and equips you with an understanding of how to work creatively, appropriately and successfully within them.

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Semester 2 2023-24

Module aims

During this module, you will be introduced to a wide range of settings, including: prisons and detention centres, hospitals and care settings, different school settings, amateur ensembles, and others. The module will also focus on a variety of specialisms relevant to the field of community music, including: music therapy, working with older populations and dementia, working with families, using trauma-informed approaches, working sensitively with mental health, understanding D/deaf/F musicianship, and more. Practical experiences will be linked to relevant research and theoretical models.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module you should be able to:

  • Differentiate between general knowledge and specialist knowledge in community music;

  • Develop project/workshop/lesson plans in response to the needs, opportunities and limitations of at least one of the above contexts or areas of specialism;

  • Adapt activities and delivery approaches to a variety of settings and evaluate the effectiveness of adaptations;

  • Communicate with partners and participants across a range of settings;

  • Engage with academic research and examples of practice within a chosen area of focus, reflecting critically on the connections between theory and practice.

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark Group
Essay/coursework 100 A
Essay/coursework 100 B
Essay/coursework 100 C

Special assessment rules

None

Additional assessment information

One of the following, to form 100% of the module assessment:

  • 2000-word workshop or lesson plan with contextual annotations/commentary

  • 3000-word essay

Alternative options for those with relevant prior experience, with the approval of module leader only, and subject to availability of examiners for any live element:

  • 3000-word evidence-based project proposal

  • 3000-word workshop evaluation based on observation

  • Practical workshop and 1000-word contextual commentary

  • Performance linked to a chosen community music context or specialism, accompanied by 1000-word contextual commentary

  • Composition/arrangement linked to a chosen community music context or specialism (scores/instructions/recordings as appropriate to the type of composition), accompanied by 1000-word contextual commentary

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark Group
Essay/coursework 100 A
Essay/coursework 100 B
Essay/coursework 100 C

Module feedback

You will receive written feedback inline with standard University turnaround times.

Indicative reading

TBC


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