Postgraduate Course: Creative and Professional Development A (MUSI11022)
Course Outline
School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
Summary | The 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)
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Additional Costs | Some travel expenses to placements may be claimed back from the University. |
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | None |
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.
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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.]
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Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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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)
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Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Katie Overy
Tel: (0131 6)50 8248
Email: K.Overy@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Lyndsay Hopes
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735
Email: Lyndsay.Hopes@ed.ac.uk |
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