| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-09-23 | - |
Program Overview
This industry-focused music program provides students with the skills and knowledge to succeed in various areas of the modern music industry. Through a flexible curriculum, students can tailor their learning to their interests and career aspirations, utilizing world-class facilities and industry connections. The program emphasizes employability, preparing graduates for roles in music production, sound recording, composition, and more.
Program Outline
You will use your existing skills, as well as the world-class facilities and expertise available at Staffordshire University, to put together a showcase of your work underpinned by established research techniques and methodologies.
- Career Development For The Music Professional (40 credits): This module will give you the tools you need to promote yourself in the music industry. You will also develop your entrepreneurship in order to maximize your employability. You will learn through a mix of lectures, tutorials and student-led sessions. You will cover topics such as studio techniques, mixing and mastering, electronic music production, electronics, acoustics, studio design, composition, performance, and creative software design.
- Modern Musicianship Two (40 credits): You will use our world-class facilities and expertise to focus in on a music industry topic related to your interests. Your topic could be related to music production, music technology, composition and performance or the music business. You will also be given the skills you need to carry out research on a music-related topic at a postgraduate level.
Assessment:
Assessment will be through a variety of methods, including:
- Portfolio materials
- Written reports
- Presentations
- Reflective journals and blogs
- Interviews
- Group work for collaborative projects Although most assessments will involve practice-based portfolio materials, the program can also accommodate students taking more theoretical, traditionally academic routes.
Teaching:
The program utilizes a variety of teaching methods, including:
- Lectures
- Tutorials
- Student-led sessions
- Independent learning The program also features a unique approach focusing on flexibility, industry relevance, high professional and academic standards, and employability. The program aims to make the best use of its world-class facilities, subject expertise, and industry connections to create a highly relevant, bespoke experience for each student, tailored to their individual needs, aspirations, and interests. All staff are passionate about music and sound, and are active practitioners either through industry or as researchers.
Careers:
On completion of the course, you will be prepared for employment in a wide variety of areas related to the modern music industry. Examples of potential destinations include:
- Music production
- Sound recording
- Composition (music for film, games, television, and theatre)
- Mastering audio
- Software engineering
- Environmental acoustics
- Further and higher education
- Live sound
- Film sound
- Sound for games
- Sound for theatre
- and performance
Other:
- The program is student-centered, industry-focused, and flexible.
- You will be able to tailor your learning and assessments to match your personal interests, skill sets, and career aspirations.
- You will have access to world-class facilities, including five interconnected recording studios, well-equipped live rooms, a Pro Tools HDX system, an SSL AWS 900 mixing desk, a dedicated mastering room, and two Mac labs.
- You will benefit from being part of the program's dynamic research culture, evidenced by its recent REF excellence and its internationally excellent research.
- The program offers a work placement module as an option in both the first and second semester.
