Education Secondary and Music BA (Hons) + PGCE
Bath Spa University
Key Information
Campus location
Bath, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
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Pace
Full time
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Introduction
Education Secondary and Music BA (Hons) + PGCE
Education Secondary
You'll explore education from many theoretical and ideological perspectives in your core modules. This in-depth knowledge of the education industry, combined with your specialist subject knowledge, gives you that all-important edge when you embark on your professional education career.
Music
Throughout this Music degree you’ll explore practical performance in areas such as classical music, jazz and contemporary styles, extend your creativity through composition, and investigate musical contexts from the medieval period through to the present day. You can also study areas including music psychology, community music, and ethnomusicology. Over the three years you’ll develop ways to apply what you learn to help your future career and understand current issues within the music industry.
We have a vibrant and active musical community, with an exciting range of ensembles open to all students. This includes choirs and instrumental ensembles of many genres, including our own Javanese gamelan, mbira, ukulele, folk, traditional, and experimental music groups.
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Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Education Secondary
Year one (Level 4) modules
- Education for Change
- Introduction to Secondary Schools
- Changing Schooling
Year two (Level 5) modules
- Issues in Education
- Professional Practice in Secondary Schools
- Understanding Classrooms
- Professional Placement Year
Year three (Level 6) modules
- Teaching and Professionalism in the Secondary School
- Education Secondary Research Project part 1
An optional module which may include:
- Education Secondary Dissertation Project Part 2
- Social and Educational Inclusion
Please note, not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year.
Music
Year one (Level 4) modules
- Performing Music 1A (Musicianship)
- Creating Music 1A (Tools)
- Understanding Music 1A (Historical Contexts)
- Performing Music 1B (Practices)
- Creating Music 1B (Concepts)
- Understanding Music 1B (Global Contexts)
Year two (Level 5) modules
- Performing Music 2A (Skills)
- Creating Music 2A (Skills)
- Understanding Music 2A (Analysing Music)
- Performing Music 2B (Specialisms)
- Creating Music 2B (Strategies)
- Understanding Music 2B (Practical Research in Music)
- Employing Music (Production 1)
- Employing Music (Production 2)
- Work placement
- Professional Placement Year
Year three (Level 6) modules
- Performing Music (Independent Project)
- Creating Music (Independent Project)
- Understanding Music (Independent Project)
- Employing Music (Independent Project)
- Performing Music 3A (Identity)
- Creating Music 3A (Applications)
- Understanding Music 3A (Rethinking Music)
- Employing Music 3A (Community & Education)
- Performing Music 3B (Professional)
- Creating Music 3B (Interdisciplinarity)
- Understanding Music 3B (Research as Product)
- Employing Music 3B (Management & Industry)
Program Outcome
Program Intended Learning Outcomes
Education Secondary
- The ability to demonstrate through sustained argument a systematic understanding and coherent, detailed knowledge of the wider social, cultural, historical, political and economic contexts of secondary education and schooling.
- The ability to demonstrate though sustained argument a systematic understanding and detailed knowledge of the nature, purposes and development of education policy in the UK and internationally with particular reference to secondary education.
- The ability to demonstrate through sustained argument, a systematic understanding and coherent, detailed knowledge of the development of education practices in a range of school contexts and how these relate to secondary teachers and learners.
- The critical understanding and ability to deploy accurately established techniques of analysis in educational research with specific reference to secondary education.
- The ability to take a justified and critical position that acknowledges different perspectives on the main methods of educational enquiry; to understand the limits of knowledge and the impact on analysis, in the context of secondary education.
Music
- Systematic knowledge of and critical engagement with established principles in musical practice, including a wide range of different repertoires, texts and resources.
- Personal expression and imagination when performing and creating music, presenting an individual musical personality or ‘voice’ informed by differing repertoires, texts, resources and associated concepts at the forefront of the discipline.
- Systematic, detailed and scholarly understanding of key aspects of historical, philosophical, cultural and social musical meanings and the contemporary debates arising from music in its wider contexts.
- The ability to collaborate interactively in music-making through ensemble performance, co-creation or improvisatory work, with interpersonal skills of leadership within a creative team.
- An ability to analyse, interrogate and understand diverse musical materials, showing critical engagement with current scholarship and research at the forefront of the discipline.
- Systematic understanding and critically informed use of musical language, with coherent knowledge of the relationship between theory and practice.
Program Tuition Fee
English Language Requirements
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