This Bachelor's Degree (Honours) programme is studied full-time over four academic years, consisting of 480 credits (120 credits at FHEQ levels 4, 5, 6 and the professional training year). All modules are semester based and worth 15 credits with the exception of project, practice based and dissertation modules.
Possible exit awards include:
- Bachelor's Degree (Ordinary) (300 credits)
- Diploma of Higher Education (240 credits)
- Certificate of Higher Education (120 credits)
| Module code | Module title | Status | Credits | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MUS1028 | HARMONY 1: COMMON-PRACTICE HARMONY | Compulsory | 15 | 1 |
| MUS1033 | MUSIC PROJECT 1B | Optional | 15 | 2 |
| MUS1036 | PATHWAYS IN MUSICIANSHIP B: PERFORMANCE AND COMPOSITION | Optional | 15 | 2 |
| TON1023 | AUDIO SIGNAL ANALYSIS | Core | 15 | Year-long |
| TON1024 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS | Compulsory | 15 | Year-long |
| TON1027 | ACOUSTICS & PSYCHOACOUSTICS | Compulsory | 15 | Year-long |
| TON1028 | AUDIO ENGINEERING AND RECORDING TECHNIQUES 1 | Core | 15 | Year-long |
| TON1029 | AUDIO ELECTRONICS 1 | Core | 15 | Year-long |
| TON1030 | LISTENING & PRACTICAL SKILLS | Core | 15 | Year-long |
| MUS1038 | INVESTIGATING POPULAR MUSIC: CASE STUDY | Optional | 15 | 2 |
| MUS1039 | INVESTIGATING CLASSICAL MUSIC: CASE STUDY | Optional | 15 | 2 |
Choose one optional module in Semester 2
| Module code | Module title | Status | Credits | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MUS2035 | COMPOSITION 2A | Optional | 15 | 1 |
| MUS2036 | COMPOSITION 2B | Optional | 15 | 2 |
| MUS2049 | PERFORMANCE 2A | Optional | 15 | 1 |
| MUS2050 | PERFORMANCE 2B | Optional | 15 | 2 |
| MUS2058 | HARMONY 2: JAZZ AND POPULAR MUSIC FORMS | Optional | 15 | 1 |
| MUS2059 | MUSIC PROJECT 2A | Optional | 15 | 1 |
| MUS2060 | MUSIC PROJECT 2B | Optional | 15 | 2 |
| MUS2062 | TOPIC STUDY 2B | Optional | 15 | 2 |
| TON2014 | ELECTROACOUSTICS | Compulsory | 15 | Year-long |
| TON2018 | VIDEO ENGINEERING | Compulsory | 15 | Year-long |
| TON2019 | RECORDING TECHNIQUES | Compulsory | 30 | Year-long |
| TON2021 | PRODUCTION AND SCORE STUDIES | Optional | 15 | Year-long |
| FVP2007 | TV STUDIO PRACTICE | Optional | 15 | Year-long |
| TON2022 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING & SYNTHESIS | Compulsory | 15 | Year-long |
| TON2023 | AUDIO ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS 2 | Compulsory | 15 | Year-long |
| MUS2061 | TOPIC STUDY 2A | Optional | 15 | 1 |
Choose two optional modules, either: a) one from Semester 1 and one from Semester 2; or b) one year-long module and one from either Semester; or c) two year-long modules.
| Module code | Module title | Status | Credits | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MUS3049 | COMPOSITION 3A | Optional | 15 | 1 |
| MUS3050 | COMPOSITION 3B | Optional | 15 | 2 |
| MUS3065 | PERFORMANCE 3A | Optional | 15 | 1 |
| MUS3066 | PERFORMANCE 3B | Optional | 15 | 2 |
| MUS3079 | MUSIC PROJECT 3A | Optional | 15 | 1 |
| MUS3080 | MUSIC PROJECT 3B | Optional | 15 | 2 |
| MUS3082 | TOPIC STUDY 3B | Optional | 15 | 2 |
| TON3012 | AUDIO ENGINEERING 3 | Optional | 15 | Year-long |
| TON3013 | PORTFOLIO OF RECORDINGS | Compulsory | 45 | Year-long |
| TON3014 | TECHNICAL PROJECT | Compulsory | 45 | Year-long |
| TON3016 | AUDIO PROGRAMMING | Optional | 15 | Year-long |
| MUS3081 | TOPIC STUDY 3A | Optional | 15 | 1 |
| MUS3083 | MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM | Optional | 15 | 2 |
Choose two optional modules, either: a) one from Semester 1 and one from Semester 2; or b) one year-long module and one from either Semester; or c) two year-long modules.
| Module code | Module title | Status | Credits | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TONP017 | PROFESSIONAL TRAINING YEAR MODULE (FULL-YEAR WORK) | Core | 120 | Year-long |
| TONP018 | PROFESSIONAL TRAINING YEAR MODULE (FULL-YEAR STUDY) | Core | 120 | Year-long |
| Associate Tutor(s) / Guest Speakers / Visiting Academics | Y |
| Professional Training Year (PTY) | Y |
| Placement(s) (study or work that are not part of PTY) | N |
| Clinical Placement(s) (that are not part of the PTY scheme) | N |
| Study exchange (Level 5) | N |
| Dual degree | N |
The Department of Music and Media is committed to developing graduates with attributes encompassing employability, digital skills, global and culture awareness, sustainability as it relates to music, audio engineering and production, and resourcefulness and resilience in these fields.
Digital technology now underpins a great deal of audio engineering, music, and audio production. As part of the programme, you will learn the fundamentals of digital technology, including methods for conversion, signal processing, computational modelling, and analysis and synthesis of signals. You will also learn the fundamentals of the architecture and operation of digital devices, and methods of communicating digital data over specific data buses and computer-based networks, as well as developing your software programming skills for both text-based and graphical programming languages.
As part of your musical, engineering, and sound production assignments, you will develop your digital capabilities by making extensive use of generic and application-specific software tools.
Global and Cultural Capabilities
The recording and musical components of the programme will expose you to diverse cultural influences, using a wide range of recorded and musical material from around the globe. You will also be encouraged to engage with, and learn from, diverse perspectives through interaction and teamwork.
This degree programme will prepare you for real job roles in the audio and music industries. The combination of music, engineering, and sound recording means that you will be able to enter one of a wide range of roles, and our graduates work in every area of the audio and music industries, spanning the wide range of these topics.
The topics studied and the assessment methods used have been developed over many years to meet the current and future demands of the audio and music industries. We have close links with graduates and with employers in our professional training placement scheme, as well as many visiting workshop tutors and industry seminar speakers that help us to ensure that the curriculum matches industry needs. The equipment that you will use as part of this programme has been selected based on its similarity to that used by potential employers, and you will be expected to strive for the highest possible professional standards in all areas of the programme.
The programme will encourage you to reflect on environmental sustainability, and the requirements of a sustainable career in the audio and music industries. Examples of this include consideration of the efficiency of electronic designs and programming algorithms, and the importance of backwards compatibility in many areas of audio engineering technology and broadcast.
Resourcefulness and resilience
The programme will develop your resourcefulness and resilience primarily by exposing you to practical problem-solving challenges. You will develop your ability to reason and solve new and unseen problems, involving engineering challenges such as electronic circuits, programming, and computer-based networks, and creative challenges in music and television studios. In the final year project-based modules, you undertake major pieces of work that will challenge and stretch you, and encourage you to develop your skills in long-term planning and time management. The timing of these assessments is designed to give you ample time to develop your skills, undertake multiple stages of practical work (giving an opportunity to learn from failures), benefit from formative feedback, and apply this learning to the final submitted work.
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Please note that the information detailed within this record is accurate at the time of publishing and may be subject to change. This record contains information for the most up to date version of the programme / module for the 2025/6 academic year.