Music and English builds on the strong history of research and teaching excellence at Anglia Ruskin, offering a challenging and stimulating programme of study that seeks to enhance your theoretical and practical understanding of a varied selection of texts and performance practices. It is also intended to equip you with a set of skills much in demand by a range of potential employers.
Reading English allows you to study some of the most interesting and exciting books ever written. The English programme strikes a balance between the study of writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Dickens, and Woolf, and the exploration of less traditional areas like modern science fiction, children's literature and contemporary women's writing.
The study of Music at Anglia Ruskin allows you the opportunity to specialise in areas such as performance, composition, music technology, jazz studies and music education, whilst the extensive and varied programme of performance activities complements your academic studies. Access to the Department of Music and Performing Arts outstanding technical, theatre and performance facilities, will provide you with the opportunity to hone your skills in a variety of contexts.
Students take half their degree from Music and half from English.
Module guide
Year one modules
Performance 1
Musicology and Musicianship 1a & 1b
Music and English builds on the strong history of research and teaching excellence at Anglia Ruskin, offering a challenging and stimulating programme of study that seeks to enhance your theoretical and practical understanding of a varied selection of texts and performance practices. It is also intended to equip you with a set of skills much in demand by a range of potential employers.
Reading English allows you to study some of the most interesting and exciting books ever written. The English programme strikes a balance between the study of writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Dickens, and Woolf, and the exploration of less traditional areas like modern science fiction, children's literature and contemporary women's writing.
The study of Music at Anglia Ruskin allows you the opportunity to specialise in areas such as performance, composition, music technology, jazz studies and music education, whilst the extensive and varied programme of performance activities complements your academic studies.
Access to the Department of Music and Performing Arts outstanding technical, theatre and performance facilities, will provide you with the opportunity to hone your skills in a variety of contexts.
Students take half their degree from Music and half from English.
Module guide
Year one modules
Performance 1
Musicology and Musicianship 1a & 1b
Composing and Improvising
Music and Technology
Principles of Music Education
Introduction to World Musics and Ethnomusicology
Introduction to English Literature 1 and 2
Ways of Reading
Year two modules
Electroacoustic Ensemble
Acousmatic Composition
Practice of Music Education
Performance 2
Music in Context
Composing and Improvising 2a & 2b
World Music Regional Studies
Practice of Music Education
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Romantic Conflicts
The Victorian Experience: Texts and Contexts
Poetry from Marlowe to Milton
Myth and Medievalism
Imperial and Postcolonial Writing
Special Topic 1 (currently Writing Nations)
News and Feature Writing
Enlightenment in England and France
Performance and Identity
Year three modules
Major Project in Music OR English
Performance 3
Composition 3
Enterprise in the Creative Arts
Intertextuality in Music
Art, Music and Performance
Sonic Art
Radiophonica
Sensor Technology
Principles of Music Therapy
Arts Administration
Modernism and the City
Women?s Writing, Gender and Sexuality
Special Topic 2 (currently Theorizing Children?s Literature)
After the Deluge: Writing, Film, Culture and Society since 1945
Contemporary Fiction
Modern Science Fiction
Synoptic Course Review
Writing Poetry
Film Art
Genocide: Perspectives on the Holocaust
Autobiography: Self, Narrative and Truth
Associated careers
The practical and vocational skills gained through this course, combined with the ability to specialise in a particular field, should make you particularly attractive to potential employers within the industry.
Recent graduates are enjoying careers as performers, composers, technologists and music teachers.
Assessment
Assessment is via a mix of examination (written and practical), essays, creative projects, aural examinations, presentations, performance and dissertation.
200 - 240 tariff points at A Level or equivalent. Required subject(s): A Level English or English Language or English - Language & Literature at grade C, Music at grade B, ABRSM grade 7 (Practical) or equivalent, Applicants may be asked to provide a tape or CD For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals.
A Progression Agreement is a formal arrangement between two or more
education providers. It spells out what a learner needs to do to be
considered for a place on a named programme of study. Progression Agreements
may vary in the conditions they specify but they all aim to give guaranteed
pathways into higher education.
Advice on courses and careers:-
The Creative Way IAG team provides a specialist service for anyone
interested in finding out about courses and careers in the creative and
cultural industries. We can provide information direct to Students,
Parents/ Carers, Tutors and Careers Advisers via email, phone or organised
workshops and 1 to 1 sessions.
To find out more, visit our IAG page on this site on
http://www.creativeway.org.uk/IAG Or contact one of our career advisers: Matt Ball 07889 001764
m.ball@uel.ac.uk or Sarah
Comerford 07515 051509
s.comerford@uel.ac.uk