MMus Music & Culture (Full time and Part time)
The UCD School of Music is one of the leading centres for graduate musical study in Ireland. Our graduate programme gives students the opportunity to work with scholars of international standing in the School’s core disciplines of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural history and composition. The programme encourages interdisciplinary study by enabling students to take modules in both these areas, while also facilitating specialisation. The MMus degree furnishes students with the core intellectual tools for pursuing musical research and creative practice, whilst also encouraging independent scholarship.
Course Content and Structure
The degree emphasises progression from taught foundational modules, through focused case studies reflecting the School’s major research strengths, to opportunities for independent research. The programme culminates in the writing of a research dissertation on a topic of the student’s choosing or the presentation of a portfolio of compositions and/or creative work.
Modules
- Research Methods Seminar
- Graduate Colloquium
- Dissertation
- Music and Cultural History in Ireland
- Music and Philosophy
- Composition Concepts & Practices
Information for Part Time Applicants
The part time programmes run for 2 years and students normally do 1-2 modules per semester. The final 30-credit module is completed during the second year of the programme.
Please note that our part-time programmes run during the day and are not timetabled in the evenings or at weekends.