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Programme structure: Music with Innovation (MArts) for 2024/25 entry cohort

This integrated Masters programme has been designated as type III: Professional or Practice Masters in accordance with the QAA Degree Characteristics Statement. Please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes for further information on this type of programme.

Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Design and Systems Thinking for Innovation INOV10001 20 Mandatory TB-1
Design Futures INOV10006 20 Mandatory TB-2
Select 80 credit points from the list below. You must include units in at least three of the four strands History/Technical/Composition/Practical. You should select 40 credit points in Teaching Block 1 and 40 credit points in Teaching Block 2
Technical Studies I: Harmony and Harmonic Analysis MUSI10047 20 Optional TB-1
Practical studies: Performance MUSI10058 20 Optional C,D TB-4
Practical Studies: Criticism MUSI10062 20 Optional TB-4
Music and Society 1 MUSI10061 20 Optional TB-1
Music and Society 2 MUSI10060 20 Optional TB-2
Composition MUSI10059 20 Optional TB-4
Certificate of Higher Education   120      

Progression/award requirements

Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:

  • 40 out of 100 – for level 4, 5 & 6 units
  • 50 out of 100 – for level 7 units

For details on the weightings for classifying undergraduate degrees, please see the Agreed Weightings, by Faculty, to be applied for the Purposes of Calculating the Final Programme Mark and Degree Classification in Undergraduate Programmes.

For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.

Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.

Exit awards

All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.

  • To be awarded a Diploma of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 240 credit points, of which at least 100 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 100 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.

The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).

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