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Education and Music
BA (Hons)
Why study this course?
Education and Music provide a great combined degree if you are interested in
creativity, music, learning, teaching and the links between them. This combination
of degree subjects would be the ideal choice if you are interested in pursuing a
career in teaching involving music.
You will study educational topics such as the nature of learning,
childhood development, as well as the history of education and changes
to educational policies and practices. You will investigate music in a wide
range of contexts, as well as focusing on the creation and performance
of music. You will examine its meaning and uses in a diversity of styles,
periods and traditions, through topics including history, aesthetics,
and the social impact of music. You can also take a work placement
module studying music in the community or an education placement
module in schools. Music at Keele is a hub of world-class musicologists,
composers, music technologists and performers, and the musical life
on campus is rich and varied. You will have permanent access to music
practice rooms and studios.
What will this mean for my future?
When you graduate, you might choose to do a PGCE and become
a teacher. If you are thinking of travelling or working abroad after
graduation, Keele’s Language Centre offers a variety of courses that may
enable you to graduate with an enhanced degree with foreign language
competency or an internationally recognised qualification in Teaching
English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).
Students who have studied Education and Music have also entered
a wide variety of careers including local government, media and
communications, sales and marketing, banking, and the legal profession.
You could follow a career in arts administration, orchestras, bands, a
recording company, publishing, game design, film, radio or television.
You may also choose to pursue postgraduate study.
INDICATIVE MODULES
First Year
• Understanding Learning
• Twentieth-Century Musics
• Childhood, Policy and Education
• World Musics
• Digital Technologies
• Music Theory
• Too Poor to Learn: Poverty,
Education and Social Policy
Second Year
• Education Matters: Contemporary
Issues and Debates in Education
• Music in the Community (Work
Placement Module)
• Film Music
• Education Placement
• Music Composition
• Music Performance
Third Year
• School Engagement and Outreach
• Recital or Composition Portfolio in
Music
• The Making of Professionals
• Independent Research Project
• Education, Work and Identity
• Higher Education: Policy and the
Student Experience
• World Music
KEY INFORMATION
UCAS Code - WX33
Foundation Year
Yes
Indicative entry
requirements
Combined Honours
A level: BCC-CCC
BTEC: DMM-MMM
Course duration
3 years or 4 years
with a placement
year
Study abroad
Yes
International Year
Yes
Learn a Language
Yes
For further information on entry requirements please visit keele.ac.uk/entryrequirements