Overview
Status: Active
National Framework Of Qualifications (NFQ) Level: 9
NFQ Award Class: Major Award
Total Credits: 60
Connected Curriculum: - Civic and Community Engagement
- Employability
- Global Reach
- Inter-and Transdisciplinary
- Research Based Teaching
- Sustainability
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): - Quality Education
- Gender Equality
- Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Graduate Attributes: - Creator, evaluator and communicator of knowledge
- Digitally Fluent
- Effective global citizen
- Independent and creative thinker
- Socially Responsible
Exit award only
Candidates on the MA (Irish Traditional Music) who pass at least 60 credits of taught modules may opt to exit the programme and be awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Irish Traditional Music.
Programme Requirements
For information about modules, module choice, options and credit weightings, please go to Programme Requirements.
Programme Requirements
Module List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| |
| |
| MU6004 | Performance Practice | 15 |
| MU6030 | Research Skills | 5 |
| MU6050 | Performance Studies | 10 |
| MU6051 | Multidisciplinary Explorations of Irish Traditional Music | 10 |
| MU6052 | Self-directed Irish Traditional Music Performance Practice | 5 |
| 15 |
| Arts Project Management (5) | |
| Foundations of Music Technology (5) | |
| Studio Production Techniques (5) | |
| Music Education (5) | |
| Sound Studies and Musicology (5) | |
| Multidisciplinary Debates in Musicology and Ethnomusicology (5) | |
| Music Cognition and Perception in Culture (5) | |
| Composing Irish Traditional Music (5) | |
| The Harmonic Language of Irish Traditional Music (5) | |
| Professional Development in the Traditional Arts Sector (5) | |
| Traditional Arts Internship (5) | |
| Collectors, Collections and Fieldwork in Irish Traditional Music (5) | |
| Composing with Field Recordings (5) | |
| Total Credits | 60 |
Examinations
Full details and regulations governing Examinations for each programme will be contained in the Marks and Standards Book and for each module in the Book of Modules.
Programme Learning Outcomes
Programme Learning Outcomes for Postgraduate Diploma in Irish Traditional Music (NFQ Level 9, Major Award)
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of multi-disciplinary scholarship in Irish Traditional Music and related areas;
- Critically engage with research and discourse on the history and evolution of Irish Traditional Music;
- Develop improved skills in musical performance and creativity within the idiom of Irish Traditional Music;
- Identify and develop key transferrable professional skills through a range of relevant elective modules;
- Demonstrate improved skills in written and oral presentation of discipline-specific concepts and methods (Diploma students);
