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Postgraduate Course: Creative and Professional Development A (MUSI11022)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits40 ECTS Credits20
SummaryThe course will include group creative workshops, practical training in animateur/workshop leader skills, supervised placements in community settings, and seminars in the planning, design and implementation of community music projects.
Course description Seminar topics include:

Identifying areas of creative and professional development for community music practitioners; skills for critical reflection; music workshop planning (sessions including guest practitioners); professional agencies and intersections for music in the community; individual tutorials for reflective journal development. (NM)

Workshops topics include:

Specific intercultural community music skills and methodologies; theories of interculturality; supervised placements in schools and other community settings; practical community music skills related to a number of traditions (e.g. China, India, Middle East). (NO)
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Some travel expenses to placements may be claimed back from the University.
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
Students will develop their personal creative resources and their ability to communicate and motivate as a music animatuer/workshop leader. Students will also gain a professional understanding of the skills required to design and implement imaginative programmes of community arts work.
Reading List
* Matarasso, François (1994). Regular Marvels: handbook for animateurs, practitioners and development workers in dance, mime, music and literature. Leicester: Community Dance and Mime Foundation. [Students may wish to purchase their own copy. 1 x held at Edinburgh University Library: Moray House.]

* Boud, David, Rosemary Keogh, and David Walker (Eds.) (1985) Reflection. Turning experience into learning. London: Kogan Page. [6 copies held at Edinburgh University Library: Moray House.]

* Key texts.

For first Seminar (Wednesday, week 1):
Higgins, Lee (2007). Acts of Hospitality: the community in Community Music. Music Education Research, 9(2): 281-292. [Available with University login via Swetswise.]
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information Wednesday Sessions - Seminars - Lecture Room B - Dr Nikki Moran.
Friday sessions - Workshops - Lecture Room B - Prof. Nigel Osborne.
Placements as organised.

Weeks 1-5: Creative and Professional Development Seminars (NM); Animateur skills workshops (NO)
Week 6: Reading week
Weeks 7-11: Creative and Professional Development Seminars (NM); Placement Workshops (NO)
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Katie Overy
Tel: (0131 6)50 8248
Email: K.Overy@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Lyndsay Hopes
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735
Email: Lyndsay.Hopes@ed.ac.uk
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