Students may apply to undertake either an optional year abroad or an optional year in Computer Science between level I and H. Year Abroad: Students must attain a minimum overall average mark of 60 in order to be considered for study abroad. An optional year abroad at a university with which the University of Birmingham maintains an established relationship. Modules to be chosen from an approved list relevant to the Music programme. Modules will be selected in conjunction with the academic member of staff responsible for the programme, to ensure that they are at an appropriate level, that they do not duplicate our own provision, and that they contribute to the programme. If there is any duplication of our programme, the student will be ineligible to sit those modules on return to Birmingham. If the year abroad is passed the student's degree title will have 'with Year Abroad' added. With effect from the 2020-21 cohort, Year 2 will be weighted at 25% and final year at 75%. The Year Abroad will be assessed on a pass/fail basis only and it will not contribute to the final degree classification. The Year Abroad does not apply to students who enter via an articulation agreement. Year in Computer Science
The University Regulations permit students registered to Joint degrees to vary their credit weighting in their second and final year. A minimum of 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits must be taken in each discipline in both years (subject to a total number of 120 credits in each year).
Students must take 40 credits of independent study selected from the modules below.
Students may take two 20 credit Independent Study modules in Music OR one 40 credit Special Subject module in Music
OR
Students can take one 20 credit Independent Study module in Music plus the 20 credit module in Mathematics: 23753 LH Research Skills in Mathematics
OR
Students can take the 20-credit 23753 LH Research Skills in Mathematics and its co-requisite 20 credit module in Mathematics. (The co-requisite module should be chosen from the optional list below having first been discussed with the Personal Tutor. It should be chosen such that there exists alignment in content and learning outcomes with the Research Skills in Mathematics module)
Students choose additional Level H modules provided annually by the department. The following is an indicative list from Mathematics:
Module Title |
Code |
Credits |
Semester |
LH Local Musicking in Asia
|
10 30114
|
20 |
Semester 2
|
LH Love, Death, Religion and Music in the Renaissance
|
10 29026
|
20 |
Semester 2
|
LH Minimalism
|
10 30107 |
20 |
Semester 1 or 2
|
LH Music Cognition
|
10 31917
|
20 |
Semester 1
|
LH Music Education
|
09 31052
|
20 |
Semester 2
|
LH Music Festivals
|
10 29056
|
20 |
Semester 2
|
LH Music and Emotion
|
10 30766
|
20 |
Semester 1
|
LH Music and Gender
|
09 37031
|
20 |
Semester 2
|
LH Music and Globalisation
|
10 28581
|
20 |
Semester 1
|
LH Music in Britain 1870–1914
|
09 37043
|
20 |
|
LH Music in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich
|
10 23585
|
20 |
Semester 1
|
LH Music, Nations and Nationalism 1789 - 1945
|
10 26801 |
20 |
Full Term
|
LH Music, Protest and Social Activism
|
10 30113 |
20 |
Semester 1 or 2
|
LH Musicology Dissertation (Independent Study)
|
10 22642
|
20 |
Full Term
|
LH Notation and Editorial Practice
|
09 29153 |
20 |
Semester 1
|
LH Paper Composition (Independent Study)
|
10 22643
|
20 |
Full Term
|
LH Postsocialist Music and Ethnography
|
10 31925
|
20 |
|
LH Ralph Vaughan Williams and his World
|
10 31927 |
20 |
Semester 2
|
LH Solo Performance (Independent Study)
|
09 22028
|
20 |
Full Term
|
LH Sound Recording and Sound Design
|
10 31899 |
20 |
Semester 1
|
LH Sound Studies
|
09 38731
|
20 |
Semester 2
|
LH Sounding Image
|
10 28347
|
20 |
Semester 1
|
LH Special Subject Musicology
|
10 23477
|
40 |
Full Term
|
Year: 3
2026/27 Session
Students may apply to undertake either an optional year abroad or an optional year in Computer Science between level I and H. Year Abroad: Students must attain a minimum overall average mark of 60 in order to be considered for study abroad. An optional year abroad at a university with which the University of Birmingham maintains an established relationship. Modules to be chosen from an approved list relevant to the Music programme. Modules will be selected in conjunction with the academic member of staff responsible for the programme, to ensure that they are at an appropriate level, that they do not duplicate our own provision, and that they contribute to the programme. If there is any duplication of our programme, the student will be ineligible to sit those modules on return to Birmingham. If the year abroad is passed the student's degree title will have 'with Year Abroad' added. With effect from the 2020-21 cohort, Year 2 will be weighted at 25% and final year at 75%. The Year Abroad will be assessed on a pass/fail basis only and it will not contribute to the final degree classification. The Year Abroad does not apply to students who enter via an articulation agreement. Year in Computer Science
LH Special Subject Paper Composition
|
10 23479
|
40 |
Full Term
|
Music Optional modules:
Students choose additional Level H modules provided annually by the department. The following is an indicative list from Music:
Music Optional modules:
Students choose additional Level H modules provided annually by the department. The following is an indicative list from Music:
Music Optional modules:
Students choose additional Level H modules provided annually by the department. The following is an indicative list from Music:
Module Title |
Code |
Credits |
Semester |
The Singers’ Survival Guide: the effects of commercial opera on singing culture in the Later Baroque Period
|
09 25274 |
20 |
Semester 2
|
Music only: Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. If successful this will be taken in place of one of their semester 1 taught modules in Music only. The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full-time) or during semester 1 (part-time only). The placement must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation. Students who undertook a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H.