MUS50020 Seminar in Musicology 2

Academic Year 2020/2021

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 the 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, ethnomusiology and historical and cultural musicology
- current research beyond the confines of their own doctoral research

Indicative Module Content:

This module will focus on the theme of "Diaspora Studies". Students will undertake close reading and discussion of selected texts, so as to informed for the seminars in the following week.

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

24
Autonomous Student Learning

76
Total

100
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Close reading of selected texts and discussion thereof
Attendance at seminars and participation in the discussion that arises 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Co-requisite:
MUS50010 - Seminar in Musicology 1


 
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
Autumn No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Students will be assessed individually on their preparation for and contribution to seminars, in line with the theme "Diaspora Studies"