MUS6038   Teaching and Transmission   (30 credits)

Description

Taught at the beginning of the second year in the two-year part-time distance learning MA programme, Traditional and World Music, the unit builds on general knowledge and research skills established in the first year to explore an issue at the heart of all traditional music. With guidance provided through lectures at the summer residential, online study materials and e-tutorials, students pursue individual study projects on aspects of the teaching and transmission of music, leading to assessed work in the format of either an essay, a radio programme or a folio of teaching or research materials. The unit replaces MUS6006 Special Topic in World Music, reducing the choice of three topics offered in that module to a single shared topic for the sake of efficiency and increased dialogue between students, while keeping the flexibility of assessment formats to accommodate varying student interests.

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