Modules for course VVW3 | BA/PRM
BA Philosophy and Religion and Music
These were the modules for this course in the 2020–21 academic year.
You can also view the modules offered in the year 2021–22; 2022–23.
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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
40 credits from:
- WXM-1004: Intro - Harmony & Counterpoint (20) (Semester 1)
- WXK-1010: Sonic Art (20) (Semester 1)
- WXK-1011: Composition Year 1 (20) (Semester 2)
- WXP-1016: Solo Performance Year 1 (20) (Semester 2)
60 credits from:
- HPS-1004: Death of God (20) (Semester 1)
- HPS-1005: Existentialism (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-1007: Islam:Hist, Soc and Beliefs (20) (Semester 1)
- HAC-1105: Moeseg: Agweddau Crefyddol (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-1106: Intro: Judaism & Christianity (20) (Semester 1)
- VPR-1110: Themes - Eastern Religion/Phil (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-1300: Intro to Philosophy of Religio (20) (Semester 1)
- VPC-1303: Cyflwyniad i Gristnogaeth (20) (Semester 1)
- VPR-1331: Living the Good Life (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 2)
- WXP-2241: Solo Performance Year 2 (20) (Semester 2)
- WXM-2269: Community Arts Placement (20) (Semester 2)
Optional Modules
20 to 40 credits from:
- WXM-2022: Popular Music Analysis (20) (Semester 1)
- WXK-2191: Songwriting (20) (Semester 2)
- WXM-2270: Music Teaching in Context (20) (Semester 1)
- 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)
- WXC-2411: Hanes Cerddoriaeth Cymru B (20) (Semester 1)
60 credits from:
- HPS-2001: Work Placement - Semester 1 (20) (Semester 1)
- HPS-2005: Work Placement - Semester 2 (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-2009: The Mad, the Holy, and the Dem (20) (Semester 1)
- HAC-2016: Y Gaethfasnach Drawsatlantig (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-2101: Early Modern Philosophy (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-2200: The Problem of Evil (20) (Semester 1)
- HPS-2206: Sex and Society (20) (Semester 2)
- VPC-2207: Astudiaeth Annibynnol (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-2207: Independent Study (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-2217: Fundamentalism (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-2220: Political Philosophy (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-2400: Buddhism in the Modern World (20) (Semester 1)
- VPC-2402: Yr Holocost: Ymatebion Crefydd (20) (Semester 1)
- VPC-2409: Cenedlaeth,Crefydd Chymdeithas (20) (Semester 2)
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
20 to 60 credits from:
- WXM-3022: Popular Music Analysis (20) (Semester 1)
- WXP-3111: Ensembles and Groups B (20) (Semester 1)
- WXK-3191: Songwriting (20) (Semester 2)
- WXK-3235: Acousmatic Composition (20) (Semester 2)
- WXM-3270: Music Teaching in Context (20) (Semester 1)
- WXM-3305: Genres and Composers C (20) (Semester 1)
- WXM-3306: Genres and Composers D (20) (Semester 2)
- WXM-3311: Community Arts Placement (20) (Semester 2)
- WXC-3411: Hanes Cerddoriaeth Cymru B (20) (Semester 1)
60 credits from:
- HPS-3001: Work Placement - Semester 1 (20) (Semester 1)
- HPS-3006: Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- HPS-3009: The Mad, the Holy, and the Dem (20) (Semester 1)
- HAC-3016: Y Gaethfasnach Drawsatlantig (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-3016: The Atlantic Slave Trade (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-3101: Early Modern Philosophy (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-3200: The Problem of Evil (20) (Semester 1)
- HPS-3206: Sex and Society (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-3217: Fundamentalism (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-3220: Political Philosophy (20) (Semester 2)
- VPR-3400: Buddhism in the Modern World (20) (Semester 1)
- VPC-3402: Yr Holocost:Ymatebion Crefydd (20) (Semester 1)
- VPC-3409: Cenedlaeth Crefydd Chymdeithaa (20) (Semester 2)
- Students may choose whether to take the dissertation in Philosophy/Religion or their other subject