Course Overview:

The BA (Hons) Music and Sound Production is a one-year top-up course that provides students with the creative experience and technical knowledge required to build and enhance a career in music production. The course primarily engages the student with technology but is intended to provide opportunities for any suitably qualified candidate with an established interest in writing / producing / collaborating in music production.

The course consolidates and develops prior learning through research and will demonstrate your creative potential through a Final Major Project. You will be afforded the opportunity to learn how to lead and manage projects and how to adapt and respond to different contexts. You will take responsibility for assuring your creative work is inclusive, relevant and adheres to appropriate expectations regarding sustainability and environmental impact. You will further develop your understanding of business and employment law as well as how to manage yourself as a freelance practitioner. This course is designed to draw upon the attributes you have acquired during your studies and assure you are able to make informed and realistic career choices. Our overall aim for this course is that you will graduate with the knowledge, skills and materials to enable you to move forward as a freelance practitioner, in employment or as a student at post-graduate level.?

What the course leads to

What courses can I do after this? 

Successful graduates can progress to postgraduate study.

What do I need to apply

To do this course you should have... 

Applicants should have a Level 5 qualification such as a Foundation Degree or an HND in a related subject area.

What about work experience? 

None required.

Course costs

Course content

Course Content 

Course Content:

The course aims to foster and develop forward thinking, creative individuals ready to play an active role within the music community. You will engage in current social, and cultural contexts and be able to meet the needs of the role that you choose. 

The course aims:

To encourage students to develop a comprehensive knowledge and experience of a wide range of techniques that improve their skills in music creation and production. 

To engage students in academic research relating to the subject of music and production in a variety of cultural, historical and current contexts.

To foster learners’ creativity by acquainting them with notable practitioners and concepts in music / sound design and providing an opportunity to emulate, experiment and innovate.

To stimulate the student’s technical potential and emotional intelligence through collaboration with other practitioners, in their own, and other disciplines.

To provide students with a range of transferable skills in writing, working in teams, and IT, as a basis for professional activity and future employment.

To develop the student’s ability to solve problems and innovate in the course of their work.

To support students in working sustainably and with awareness of environmental global impact.

More info

Start Day/Time 

From September 2024 onwards.

Attendance 

Full-time

Campus Code 

P

Qualification Name 

BA (Hons)

Institution 

Bournemouth & Poole College

Awarding Body 

Arts University Bournemouth (AUB)

More about the course 

Course Content:

The course aims to foster and develop forward thinking, creative individuals ready to play an active role within the music community. You will engage in current social, and cultural contexts and be able to meet the needs of the role that you choose. 

The course aims:

To encourage students to develop a comprehensive knowledge and experience of a wide range of techniques that improve their skills in music creation and production. 

To engage students in academic research relating to the subject of music and production in a variety of cultural, historical and current contexts.

To foster learners’ creativity by acquainting them with notable practitioners and concepts in music / sound design and providing an opportunity to emulate, experiment and innovate.

To stimulate the student’s technical potential and emotional intelligence through collaboration with other practitioners, in their own, and other disciplines.

To provide students with a range of transferable skills in writing, working in teams, and IT, as a basis for professional activity and future employment.

To develop the student’s ability to solve problems and innovate in the course of their work.

To support students in working sustainably and with awareness of environmental global impact.

 

By the end of this course, you will be able to:?

·        Use a range of established techniques to initiate and undertake critical analysis of information, and to propose solutions to problems arising from that analysis.

 

·        Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the well-established principles of music and sound production, and of the way in which those principles have developed.

 

·        Demonstrate knowledge of how to plan for business as a freelance or employed Sound practitioner

 

·        Demonstrate the ability to apply underlying concepts and principles outside the context in which they were first studied to create new work.

 

·        Collaborate with other creative practitioners demonstrating an awareness of professionalism and subject specific knowledge.

 

·        Effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms to specialist and non-specialist audiences and deploy key techniques of the discipline effectively

·        Evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to solving problems related to music and sound production and / or work

 

Academic Year 

2024/25

Attendance 

Full-time

Campus Code 

P

Qualification Name 

BA (Hons)

Institution 

Bournemouth & Poole College

Awarding Body 

Arts University Bournemouth (AUB)

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