MUS50010 Seminar in Musicology 1

Academic Year 2021/2022

This module is offered for Musicology PhD students. The seminar provides an important opportunity for research students to engage with the major debates, topics and currents in contemporary musicological discource, particularly in the musicological disciplines encompassed in the School of Music: ethnomusicology and historical or cultural musicology.

PhD students are expected to attend all seminars over the course of the trimester. The seminars are the one regular occasion when the full scholarly community of the school gathers together and are an essential dimension of school life. Students are strongly encouraged to engage in the discussions that follow each seminar paper.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this module students should have a greater awareness of:
- important currents in musicology today
- specific debates in discrete areas of the discipline
- a sense of the interactions and the potential for interaction between analysis, ethnomusicology and historical and cultural musicology
- current research beyond the confines of their own doctoral research

Indicative Module Content:

Diverse topics in musicology by guest speakers.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Seminar (or Webinar)

24
Autonomous Student Learning

76
Total

100
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
There will be five guest seminars in all. The first meeting with students shall be to discuss some core reading as preparation for the takes and each guest shall provide a preparatory text to be discussed in the intervening weeks. The guest seminars themselves shall consist of a recorded talk played synchronously according to the timetable, followed by a live discussion on Zoom, both of which are open to a public audience. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Attendance: All seminars Throughout the Trimester n/a Graded No

60
Continuous Assessment: Participation in discussions Throughout the Trimester n/a Graded No

40

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

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