Unit name | Research Skills for Musicians |
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Unit code | MUSIM0035 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Scheding |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Music |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit will focus on research skills that are particularly relevant to musicians: - handling library collections and archives; - good practice in compiling a bibliography; - oral presentation skills, using Powerpoint. The unit will be taught in a mixture of music-department based classes and more general skills training offered by the Graduate School
Aims:
This unit aims to offer guidelines to research in arts subjects in general, with the addition of methodologies relating specifically to Music.
(1) Successful completion of this unit will enable students to make strategic use of primary and secondary sources, of the most up-to-date research tools and of established research methodologies.
(2) Students should also be in a position to select research topics advisedly and to present research findings in a clear and coherent form.
This module also measures general learning outcomes for the MA in Music as follows:
(3) Demonstrate familiarity with a range of methodologies (including those imported from other disciplines)
(4) Display a sincerity of belief in particular ideas and methodologies, yet retaining a sympathy for and tolerance towards alternatives
(5) Be able to identify subtly different shades of interpretation and display sensitivity towards the consequences of their application
(6) students will demonstrate effective verbal presentation
(7) experience in seeing a project through from conception to planning, blueprint realisation, and execution
2x2 hour preparatory group seminars; one or more sessions of assessed student presentations (depending on cohort numbers); 2x2 hour “Research Skills for Musicians” seminars provided as part of the graduate school skills training programme; two further sessions from the graduate school skills training programme.
Assessment is by coursework: