This two year part-time programme is for musicians who want to run workshops and group tuition, and to pursue careers in community-based music making. The programme is highly respected in community arts, with graduates having found work across a wide range of projects including as Local Authority Arts Officers, working in prisons, with the physically and mentally disabled, as music therapists, on youth music projects and in nationally recognised organisations like Sound Sense and the Drake Music Project.
The programme combines the practical and theoretical aspects of music teaching with learning through experience via a community placement.
It attracts a wide range of students from rock, jazz and classical backgrounds, youth workers, teachers, education officers from orchestras, and musicians from London’s ethnic communities. You are taught to work as a group and how to network and research. You are given aural, theoretical and practical skills and are guided through a broad-based workshop curriculum. The course covers vocals, music technology, world music, working with specific client groups, and key issues of community music making.
For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals. We welcome musicians from all backgrounds. Formal music qualifications are not required but you should be proficient on your main instrument, and have good communication skills and a desire and commitment to work in this challenging area. Admission is by interview and audition. In exceptional circumstances, students with wide experience and training in community music work can go straight into the second year of the programme.
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