BA (Hons) Music Business and Arts Management
Our music business and arts management course is designed to give you the tools to succeed in the field of music business and arts management. It covers everything from entrepreneurship and project management to live music, copyright law and much more.
You’ll be taught by staff who are all active practitioners or researchers in music, the arts or business. We’re particularly proud of our links with industry including prominent industry speakers who will help open doors to the professional world and help you build key contacts. Previous guests include Gillian Moore CBE (Southbank Centre); Mark Lawrence (PRS for Music), Geoff Travis (Rough Trade), James Gillespie (Sony Music), Tom Robinson (BBC 6Music), Dave Tomberlin (Interscope-Geffen-A&M), Sumit Bothra (ATC Management), Jayne Stynes (Music Managers Forum), and Vick Bain (British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors).
Heavily focused on enhancing your employability skills, you’ll follow in the footsteps of graduates who have gone on to work for the likes of MTV, Kobalt, Help Musicians UK, Universal, PRS for Music, Columbia Records, TripAdvisor, Boosey & Hawkes, and PPL, among many others.
Learn more about the course and last year’s graduates on our Creative Graduates 2022 exhibition site.
We are regularly reviewing and updating our programmes to ensure you have the best learning experience. We are taking what we have learnt during the pandemic and enhancing our teaching methods with new and innovative ways of learning.
We aim to model a wide range of teaching strategies and approaches on the course which you can adapt to your own setting.
You will be taught through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials. Lectures allow you to gain and develop knowledge in specific subjects. You can discuss and develop your understanding of topics covered in lectures in smaller seminar and workshop groups, either whole-class or divided, and in tutorials, usually one-to-one or in pairs. There are two types of tutorial: the type used to discuss work-in-progress; and another, specific to BA Music Business and Arts Management, used to discuss your professional and academic development more generally. In addition, you can arrange further one-to-one sessions with your Academic Advisor, Module Leader, or Programme Leader. You will also have access to and use resources to support your learning throughout your course, including; a specialist Librarian; the Learning Resource Centre; the Loan Store; Music Technicians and the Music Studio they manage and supervise; a comprehensive Induction programme for new students; and extracurricular events, for example Music Concerts & Colloquia, a weekly series that brings illustrious guest speakers to the University.
During your first year (Level 4), your weekly timetable will typically consist of:
When not attending your teaching, sessions mentioned above, you will be expected to continue learning independently through self-study. Typically, this will involve reading journal articles and books, working on projects, undertaking research, and preparing for assessments including coursework, presentations and examinations. Your independent learning is supported by the facilities available including the library and Study Hub, Laptop hire, and with online materials in MyUniHub (see student support section below).
Your overall workload will include the activities listed above, and with each credit being completed equating to 10 hours of study time (You will complete 120 credits per level of study, which are broken down into modules of typically 30 credits). While your actual hours may depend on the optional module that you choose (if available), the following information will give you an indication of how much time is allocated to teaching and independent study on your course;
Level 4
20% of your time is spent in timetabled Teaching and learning - typical structure activity:
Level 5
20% of your time is spent in timetabled Teaching and learning - typical structure activity:
Level 6
14% of your time is spent in timetabled Teaching and learning - typical structure activity:
The course will provide you with opportunities to test your knowledge and understanding informally through ‘formative’ assessment. This will be completed before your formal ‘summative’ assessment, which will count towards your final marks. Each module normally contains at least one piece of formative assessment from which you will receive feedback from your tutor. Formative assessments are developmental and any grade you receive from formative assessment does not count towards your final marks.
There is formal ‘summative’ assessment as part of the module, usually towards the end of the module. Assessment methods could include submission of draft listening diaries, presentation of work-in-progress (e.g. essays, reports), presentations, and practice-led project work. The grades from the summative assessments count towards your module mark. Assessments are reviewed annually and may be updated based on student feedback, to suit content or based on feedback from an External Examiner.
The balance of assessment will depend on the modules that you complete throughout your course. The approximate percentage of the course which is assessed by coursework is outlined below:
Our music business and arts management course is designed to give you the tools to succeed in the field of music business and arts management. It covers everything from entrepreneurship and project management to live music, copyright law and much more.
You’ll be taught by staff who are all active practitioners or researchers in music, the arts or business. We’re particularly proud of our links with industry including prominent industry speakers who will help open doors to the professional world and help you build key contacts. Previous guests include Gillian Moore CBE (Southbank Centre); Mark Lawrence (PRS for Music), Geoff Travis (Rough Trade), James Gillespie (Sony Music), Tom Robinson (BBC 6Music), Dave Tomberlin (Interscope-Geffen-A&M), Sumit Bothra (ATC Management), Jayne Stynes (Music Managers Forum), and Vick Bain (British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors).
Heavily focused on enhancing your employability skills, you’ll follow in the footsteps of graduates who have gone on to work for the likes of MTV, Kobalt, Help Musicians UK, Universal, PRS for Music, Columbia Records, TripAdvisor, Boosey & Hawkes, and PPL, among many others.
Learn more about the course and last year’s graduates on our Creative Graduates 2022 exhibition site.
We are regularly reviewing and updating our programmes to ensure you have the best learning experience. We are taking what we have learnt during the pandemic and enhancing our teaching methods with new and innovative ways of learning.
We aim to model a wide range of teaching strategies and approaches on the course which you can adapt to your own setting.
You will be taught through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials. Lectures allow you to gain and develop knowledge in specific subjects. You can discuss and develop your understanding of topics covered in lectures in smaller seminar and workshop groups, either whole-class or divided, and in tutorials, usually one-to-one or in pairs. There are two types of tutorial: the type used to discuss work-in-progress; and another, specific to BA Music Business and Arts Management, used to discuss your professional and academic development more generally. In addition, you can arrange further one-to-one sessions with your Academic Advisor, Module Leader, or Programme Leader. You will also have access to and use resources to support your learning throughout your course, including; a specialist Librarian; the Learning Resource Centre; the Loan Store; Music Technicians and the Music Studio they manage and supervise; a comprehensive Induction programme for new students; and extracurricular events, for example Music Concerts & Colloquia, a weekly series that brings illustrious guest speakers to the University.
During your first year (Level 4), your weekly timetable will typically consist of:
When not attending your teaching, sessions mentioned above, you will be expected to continue learning independently through self-study. Typically, this will involve reading journal articles and books, working on projects, undertaking research, and preparing for assessments including coursework, presentations and examinations. Your independent learning is supported by the facilities available including the library and Study Hub, Laptop hire, and with online materials in MyUniHub (see student support section below).
Your overall workload will include the activities listed above, and with each credit being completed equating to 10 hours of study time (You will complete 120 credits per level of study, which are broken down into modules of typically 30 credits). While your actual hours may depend on the optional module that you choose (if available), the following information will give you an indication of how much time is allocated to teaching and independent study on your course;
Level 4
20% of your time is spent in timetabled Teaching and learning - typical structure activity:
Level 5
20% of your time is spent in timetabled Teaching and learning - typical structure activity:
Level 6
14% of your time is spent in timetabled Teaching and learning - typical structure activity:
The course will provide you with opportunities to test your knowledge and understanding informally through ‘formative’ assessment. This will be completed before your formal ‘summative’ assessment, which will count towards your final marks. Each module normally contains at least one piece of formative assessment from which you will receive feedback from your tutor. Formative assessments are developmental and any grade you receive from formative assessment does not count towards your final marks.
There is formal ‘summative’ assessment as part of the module, usually towards the end of the module. Assessment methods could include submission of draft listening diaries, presentation of work-in-progress (e.g. essays, reports), presentations, and practice-led project work. The grades from the summative assessments count towards your module mark. Assessments are reviewed annually and may be updated based on student feedback, to suit content or based on feedback from an External Examiner.
The balance of assessment will depend on the modules that you complete throughout your course. The approximate percentage of the course which is assessed by coursework is outlined below:
