Modules for course WW93 | BA/CSTMUS
BA Creative Studies and Music
These are the modules currently offered on this course in the 2021–22 academic year.
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Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
20 credits from:
- WXM-1300: Music since 1850 (20) (Semester 1)
- WXM-1301: Music 1550 -1850 (20) (Semester 2)
Optional Modules
60 credits from:
- UXS-1000: Issues in Media and Journalism (20) (Semester 2)
- WXS-1000: Introduction to Playwriting (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-1001: Intro to Practical Journalism (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-1018: Creative Practice (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-1021: Intro to Studying Mass Culture (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-1038: Intro' to Media Practice (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-1062: Film Language (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-1063: Film History (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-1066: Visual Cultures (20) (Semester 2)
40 credits from:
- WXM-1004: Intro - Harmony & Counterpoint (20) (Semester 1)
- WXP-1016: Solo Performance Year 1 (20) (Semester 1 + 2)
- WXK-1113: Composition and Sonic Art A (20) (Semester 1)
- WXK-1114: Composition and Sonic Art B (20) (Semester 2)
Year 2 Modules
Compulsory Modules
20 to 40 credits from:
- WXM-2011: Musicology Year 2 (20) (Semester 2)
- WXM-2205: Notation and Editing (20) (Semester 2)
- WXK-2233: Composition Year 2 (20) (Semester 2)
- WXK-2235: Acousmatic Composition (20) (Semester 1)
- WXP-2241: Solo Performance Year 2 (20) (Semester 1 + 2)
Optional Modules
60 credits from:
- WXS-2000: Directing and Dramaturgy (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2025: Stanley Kubrick: Auteur (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2038: Journalism & Risk Society (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2046: Media, Politics & Society (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2050: Race & Gender (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2052: Radio: Theory and Practice (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2055: Privacy and the Media (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2057: Documentary Filmmaking (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2059: Understanding Documentary (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2062: Film Distribution & Marketing (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2064: Film Theory (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-2099: Research and Methods (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-2401: Practical Journalism: ELD (20) (Semester 1)
- Some modules may be subject to pre-requisites, please check module page for further information
20 to 40 credits from:
- WXM-2207: Craft of tonal composition (20) (Semester 1)
- WXK-2232: Orchestration Today (20) (Semester 1)
- WXK-2300: Interactive Sound and Music (20) (Semester 2)
- WXM-2303: Genres & Composers A (20) (Semester 1)
- WXM-2304: Genres and Composers B (20) (Semester 2)
- WXP-2307: Ensembles and Groups A (20) (Semester 1)
- WXM-2309: Music, Health and Wellbeing (20) (Semester 2)
- WXC-2411: Hanes Cerddoriaeth Cymru B (20) (Semester 1)
Year 3 Modules
Compulsory Modules
0 to 40 credits from:
- WXM-3277: Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- WXM-3283: Edition (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- WXK-3289: Composition (project) (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- WXP-3298: Solo Performance Project (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- SPECIAL PROJECTS: Students must choose at least ONE Project, either in Music or in other subject. Students are welcome to choose more than one project: one in each school
Optional Modules
60 credits from:
- WXS-3000: Directing and Dramaturgy (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-3025: Stanley Kubrick: Auteur (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-3038: Journalism & Risk Society (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-3050: Race & Gender (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-3055: Privacy and the Media (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-3062: Film Distribution & Marketing (20) (Semester 2)
- UXS-3401: Practical Journalism: ELD (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-3800: Game Design 3 (20) (Semester 1)
- UXS-3801: Game Production (20) (Semester 2)
- UXB-3900: Research Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- UXB-3901: Creative Practice Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- UXB-3902: Enterprise Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- Some modules may be subject to pre-requisites, please check module page for further information
20 to 60 credits from:
- WXP-3111: Ensembles and Groups B (20) (Semester 1)
- WXM-3205: Notation and Editing (20) (Semester 2)
- WXM-3207: Craft of tonal composition (20) (Semester 1)
- WXK-3232: Orchestration Today (20) (Semester 1)
- WXK-3235: Acousmatic Composition (20) (Semester 1)
- WXK-3300: Interactive Sound & Music (20) (Semester 2)
- WXM-3305: Genres and Composers C (20) (Semester 1)
- WXM-3306: Genres and Composers D (20) (Semester 2)
- WXM-3309: Music, Health & Wellbeing (20) (Semester 2)
- WXC-3411: Hanes Cerddoriaeth Cymru B (20) (Semester 1)