• Offered for Year: 2024/25

• Module Leader(s): Professor Kirsten Gibson

• Owning School: Arts & Cultures
• Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus

Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Aims

To enable students to:
1. engage in an extended research project
2. consolidate and develop research techniques, critical skills, and scholarly imagination
3. demonstrate professional scholarly practice and develop skills in writing and presentation appropriate to the chosen medium
4. assume autonomy, choice and responsibility in the academic study of music

The focus on this module is very much on the process of learning and of developing academic and professional skills through conducting a project that is embedded within their prior and continuing study in the academic modules of their music degree, focussed on a topic of the student’s own choice. The bulk of the student's time is devoted to private study and research. At the same time, they will receive appropriate support and guidance to enable their success. Workshops offered through this module will introduce students to the research and writing process and will help them develop the skills required to undertake a supervised project. Students are recommended to arrange regular tutorials with their supervisor - six half-hour meetings being the norm - and are expected to attend at least five of the Music research seminars over the course of the academic year.

An additional assessments, a project outline (to include methodology), is designed to contribute to the successful completion of the project. The formative assessment, submission of an initial proposal written over the summer vacation (submitted during the first week), is designed to further raise student achievement.

Outline Of Syllabus

Students submit a project proposal in week one and are allocated a project supervisor. Six half-hour one-to-one meetings with the supervisor over the course of the year support the planning and writing of the project. A series of workshops in Semester 1 covering various aspects of the Project process, including planning, research, writing and referencing provide additional support, alongside one further workshop in Semester 2, to help facilitate the final writing stages of the project. These workshops are organized to introduce and help students develop appropriate research approaches and methods, and the process tools and skills that will enable students to be successful.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities

Jointly Taught With

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Since this is a project module focused on a topic of the student’s own choice, the bulk of the student’s time is devoted to private study and research. The workshops will be whole class events to provide advice and guidance on the approaches/techniques required to undertake the projects. These workshops are aimed at developing students’ research and writing skills, and to guide the students in the writing of their extended outlines (to provide an overview of their proposed course of study and research). Tutorials are in the form of supervisory sessions (individual) and are to ascertain progress, provide formative feedback and feed forward, and facilitate problem solving and supported independent learning. Students are recommended to arrange regular tutorials with their supervisor (six half- hour meetings being the norm) and are expected to attend at least five of the music department's research seminars.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The quality of the project tests all the learning outcomes. The ‘extended outline’ tests the student’s planning and preliminary research skills and acts as a ‘staging post’ to assess the student’s progress

Reading Lists

• MUS3019's Reading List

Timetable

• Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
• MUS3019's Timetable