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Undergraduate Handbook 2006-2007 (archived)

Module MUSI1181: READINGS IN MUSICOLOGY

Department: Music

MUSI1181: READINGS IN MUSICOLOGY

Type	Level	Credits	Availability	Module Cap	Location
Tied	1	20	Available in 2006/2007	None.	Durham

Tied To

W300, QRV0: (programme not found)

Pre-requisites

A-level Music.

Corequisites

The Analysis and Perception of Music, Techniques of Composition, Music in Culture and Society, Issues and Methods in Musicology, Performance Studies.

Excluded Combinations

None.

Aims

To enhance and augment reading-based knowledge of key issues arising from musicology, ethnomusicology, analysis, performance and composition.
To integrate this knowledge critically into the wider framework of relevant disciplinary work.
To stimulate personal intellectual development and critical interpretative skills.
To create a solid foundation for further, more advanced study.

Content

The module will comprise 22 seminars (four groups approx.
10 students/lecturer).
Tutorials will revolve around tutor-led group discussion based on directed reading collated and organised centrally by the course convenor(s).
The module will introduce foundations of good research practice and essay-writing skills through a combination of directed readings.
in-class discussion and formative assignments (book reports, literature reviews and orally presented papers).
The module will augment and supplement reading from other modules of the course, and introduce new issues as appropriate.
Areas of discussion include historical topics.
historiography.
analysis.
criticism.
ethnomusicology and cultural studies.
performance- and/or composition-related issues.
and interdisciplinary research.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge

Developing a critical understanding of key musicological texts through essays, literature reviews and orally presented papers.

Subject-specific Skills

To understand research techniques, including those involving electronic resourcing, bibliographical searching and where appropriate archival work.

Key Skills

To develop informed critical views, through intensive, directed reading and in-class discussion.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

Teaching methods will comprise weekly seminars and tutorial groups over the span of three terms.
Teaching will involve tutor-led group discussion of directed readings, as well as the presentation and discussion, as appropriate, of one or more of the formative assignments under point 2 below.
Students will be required (1) to prepare readings on a weekly basis.
(2) to supply formative work (book reports, literature reviews and orally presented papers) on an ongoing basis.
and (3) to participate in in-class discussion.
Summative work will formalise the assessment in points 2 and 3 above, as described in the Summative Assessment section.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity	Number	Frequency	Duration	Total Hours
Tutorials	3		1 Hour	3
Seminars	22	1 Per Week	1 Hour	22
Preparation and Reading				175
Total				200

Summative Assessment

Component	Component Weighting	Element	Length/Duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
Book Report	50%	3000 word book report		100%
Literature Review	50%	3000 word literature review		100%

Formative Assessment

Students will be required to give oral presentations of draft work in seminars and tutorial groups. In-class participation will also be reviewed in the middle, and at the end, of each full term of teaching.

Students who do not attend monitored activities shown under Teaching Methods and Learning Hours, or who fail to complete the summative or formative assessment(s) specified above, may be subject to the Academic Progress procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University.