Community Music Placement MUSIC5097

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: School of Culture and Creative Arts
  • Credits: 20
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Runs Throughout Semesters 1 and 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

The course will provide students with an opportunity to apply skills associated with composition and music more generally to a context of music-making in a community setting. Through an appropriate placement, students will be enabled to work closely with members of an organisation, which might involve playing in ensembles alongside community musicians, assisting with operational duties, and creating resources.

Timetable

2 x 1 hr seminars over 20 weeks as scheduled on MyCampus

2 x 1 hr tutorials over 20 weeks as scheduled on MyCampus

15 x 2hr placement

Requirements of Entry

Standard entry to Masters at College level

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

Interim Report (1000 words) - 20%

Report (4000 words) - 80% 

Main Assessment In: August

Course Aims

This course aims to:

■ Provide opportunities for students to develop students' their creative practice within community settings.

■ Provide students with opportunities to apply basic principles drawn from their individualised practices to a community setting.

■ Strengthen collaborative working skills.

■ Develop students' understanding of how community arts organisations operate.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Respond in agile, flexible, and innovative ways to the needs of specific organisations and challenges posed in the context of working in real-life community music-making.

■ Exercise sensitive judgement to the process of testing theories and concepts in community music-making contexts.

■ Apply a wide range of musical, critical, organisational and communicational skills in the course of collaborating with other musicians in a community setting.

■ Reflect critically on individual and collaborative practice.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.