MA in Music Education
Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
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TUITION FEES
GBP 8,770 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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** home full-time: £8,770 | international full-time: £17,700
Introduction
Why choose this course?
If you already work as a music educator or seek to become one, this course will develop and enhance your skills as both a practitioner and researcher. You will have the opportunity to study major issues in international music education and the UK system of music education, research and practices.
You will develop and implement a teaching and learning project within an educational setting and the Kingston community. Your research project will take the form of a dissertation. You will receive guidance from a specialist tutor and be taught research, project planning and development skills.
Reasons to choose Kingston University
- You will be engaged with London schools and community music settings.
- You may enhance your performance skills by participating in a University musical ensemble or forming your own.
- Facilities include recording studios, rehearsal rooms, a synthesis/sampling lab and the analogue/digital hybrid Visconti Studio, which has a 300m² live room and rare and vintage recording equipment.
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Curriculum
What you will study
Your core studies will encompass key research and practice issues in music teaching and learning.
Through devising, delivering and evaluating your music education research project, you will develop and enhance your skills as both a practitioner and researcher. Alongside this, you can choose from a variety of option modules and develop new skills to exploit in your own teaching.
You'll need to take all four compulsory modules, totalling 150 credits. You can then choose a further 30-credit optional module, to form a total of 180 credits.
Modules
The core modules will develop your research, project planning, teaching and development skills in preparation for your major project while receiving guidance from a specialist tutor.
The curriculum is enriched by our eclectic view of musical styles and genres, exploiting the diversity of a repertoire that encompasses Western classical music, and popular and world music.
Core modules
- Constructing Music Education in the UK
- International Music Education: Psychology, Culture and Philosophy
- Major Project
- Researching Music
Optional modules (may vary from year to year)
- Advanced Production of Popular Music
- Composing and Marketing Popular Music
- Critical Reflection on Musical Performance
- Music and Technology in Education
- Performance Studies
- Special Study: Jazz Studies
Optional placement year
Many postgraduate courses at Kingston University allow students to do a 12-month work placement as part of their course. The responsibility for finding the work placement is with the student; we cannot guarantee the work placement, just the opportunity to undertake it. As the work placement is an assessed part of the course, it is covered by a student's Student Route visa.
Please note
Optional modules only run if there is enough demand. If we have an insufficient number of students interested in an optional module, that module will not be offered for this course.
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Career Opportunities
After you graduate
You will graduate prepared for a career in music education, and for progression to a management role. This course is also excellent preparation for further studies, such as PhD programmes. Recent graduate destinations for this course include a wide range of educational settings in the UK and around the globe as well as in further teacher education programmes including PhD study and PGCE.
The high level of research and transferable skills you acquire during your studies also makes careers in the wider commercial and business environments available to you.