Issues in Musical Scholarship is an elective module for postgraduate music students (MMus, MPhil, DMus and PhD) in which areas of musical scholarship are examined through close reading of academic texts in a range of topics that reflect staff research specialisms, for example: musicology, performance studies and music education. The key aim of the module for students in the research reading group is to engage with scholarly writing in music studies in order to develop their critical reading skills and to assess a broad range of topics and methodological approaches. The course supports the skills required for research projects such as dissertations, reports, lecture recitals and conference papers.
The 12-week course will be team-taught by staff with specialism in the three topics/areas covered. A sample of areas includes but is not restricted to: musicology, performance studies and music education.
Each four-week topic begins with a introduction by the lecturer, followed by three weeks of lecturer-led discussions in which students reflect on and evaluate literature supplied by the lecturer in advance of the class.
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| Other Assessment(s) | 100 |