University of Wolverhampton
| The University of Wolverhampton is a leading modern university with a tradition of providing opportunity and academic excellence dating back nearly 190 years.The roots of the University of Wolverhampton lie in the 19th century growth of Mechanics Institutes, which provided vocational and general education for working men. The Wolverhampton Free Library also developed technical, scientific, commercial and general classes. |
| BA (Hons) Music Technology | The BA (Hons) Music Technology is aimed at aspiring, creative users and developers of audio technologies. |
| BMus (Hons) Music | The BMus (Hons) Music degree at the University of Wolverhampton aims to develop your musical creativity, and help you to acquire the skills needed to become a versatile and practical musician. This course stimulates your innate love of music, explores and identifies what music is, what music does, and what music means and provides a structured approach to your career progression as a performer, technologist, teacher or academic. |
| BA (Hons) Music Technology and Popular Music | Music Technology and Popular Music is a unique course, ideal for dedicated performers and aspiring, creative users of audio technologies. It will provide you with an impressive breadth of knowledge and experience in enhancing your employability potential in an ever-changing music industry. The course aims to develop your versatility as a practising musician, as well as giving you an advanced range of music technology and production skills for the creation and manipulation of sound. You will have the opportunity to work with industry-standard analogue and digital technologies, as well as the opportunity to perform in established and nationally recognised gig venues, such as The Jamhouse and Robin 2. |
| BMus (Hons) Popular Music | The BMus (Hons) Popular Music degree at the University of Wolverhampton prepares you for a career in the music industry. |
| BA (Hons) Music for Education and Community Practice | Many of our music education degree graduates progress to careers in teaching or community music. Our music education degree offers a unique balance of scholarly research and practical musicianship to produce an all-round teacher, musician or practitioner. Our aim is to facilitate and stimulate your personal musical growth and to help you to develop confidence in your ability through both practical and theoretical elements of the course. |
| BA (Hons) Sound Production (Top Up) | This one-year top-up focuses on developing a set of skills to help you establish a career within the rapidly growing music industry with a music industry employer, or in a self employed capacity and is ideal if you have already completed some higher education study in Sound Production of Music Technology, or our Foundation Degree (Arts) Sound Production. |
| BA (Hons) Musical Theatre | The BA Musical Theatre course at Wolverhampton offers a unique opportunity to develop performance skills in a department at the cutting edge of international musical theatre research. Our staff members have professional industry experience as musical directors, choreographers, performers, dramaturgs and writers, and this is reflected in the breadth of the course. |
| BA (Hons) Media and English | This course features a co-ordinated approach to the study of English and Media. The aim of this integrated joint degree is to break down the artificial barriers that have separated the written word from contemporary forms of communication such as radio, television and multimedia platforms |
| BA (Hons) Technical Theatre (Top Up) | This course offers a blend of technical expertise across the multi-faceted disciplines of drama and performance with work opportunities in professional venues. There will be opportunities for employment as student technicians in the Epstein Theatre, Liverpool and the Storyhouse Theatre, Chester. With its hands-on experiential learning, academic rigour and exploration of theory into practice, this course is ideal for those who wish to gain vocational skills with underpinning knowledge as well as those who wish to take a more academic approach to the study of theatre technology. |
| BA (Hons) Media and English with Foundation Year | This course features a co-ordinated approach to the study of English and Media. The aim of this integrated joint degree is to break down the artificial barriers that have separated the written word from contemporary forms of communication such as radio, television and multimedia platforms. |
| Mmus Music | The MMus in Music is aimed at graduates from Music or Popular Music courses and those already active — or starting to become active — in the professional realm. |
| MSc by Research Music Technology | The MSc by Research in Music Technology is designed to offer an exciting opportunity for students to investigate an area of your own academic interest in the varied fields of audio programming, software and video games development, interactive music, room acoustics, interfaces and controllers, and other music technology related areas. You will be encouraged to demonstrate self-direction and autonomy, under the supervision of published experts in their fields and develop your theoretical and methodological understanding, engaging with current debates in some of the most vibrant areas of contemporary research. |
| MSc Audio Technology | The MSc in Audio Technology is aimed at graduates from Music Technology, Sound Production, Creative Computing and Interactive Media courses, as well as anyone already working in industry or music technology education. |
| MA by Research Performing Arts | The MA by Research in Performing Arts offers an exciting new opportunity for students to study at Masters level, following an area of their own academic interest and under the supervision of published experts in their fields. You will be able pursue innovative experience of performing arts practices with the integral development of research and writing skills, self-direction and autonomy, working in, and across, disciplines that include dance, drama, music or musical theatre. You will have the opportunity to achieve a range of subject-specific outcomes, through acquiring an advanced knowledge of concepts, and critically evaluating theories, problems and performing techniques. |
| PGCE Post Compulsory Education | The Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE, Post Compulsory Education) offers initial teacher education for those who wish to be employed in a variety of post-14 educational and training establishments. |
| PhD Postgraduate research in Performing Arts | The aim of our research programmes is to give each student the best possible foundation from which to launch further research and career development. We help our students to develop the relevant research skills and methods and also support the development of related skills such as IT, presentation and career planning. |
| PhD Postgraduate research in Music | Now is a great time to start your postgraduate research degree as loans are now available to help ease the cost of study at this level. |
| FD (Arts) Music Performance Technologies | This course is designed to bring the worlds of performance, coding and technology together as a cohesive subject. Not only will students have to opportunity to learn vital skills in songwriting/composition and production, they will also have to opportunity to create their own software and hardware tools to aid them in a performance environment, whether to support a recital, add to a VJing visualisation, sonify data, or create a soundscape adopting original sonic processes as well as multichannel streaming. |
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