Master of Arts in Music
Programme Director: Dr David Urrows
 

The MA in Music is a two-year part-time or one-year full-time taught master’s degree requiring 30 credit units. The programme aims to stimulate enquiry and reflective professional and creative activity; to provide opportunities for scholarship in music and education; to provide theoretical, practical, and technological frameworks for pedagogical, creative and academic accomplishment in the Hong Kong cultural context; and to contribute to the development of the scholastic community and society at large.

 
The structure of the curriculum is as follows:
     
 
I) Core Elective Courses
9 units
 
II) Electives Courses
21 units
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  30 units
 
Requirements
 
I. Core Elective Courses 9 units
MUS 7260 Research Methods in Music 3 units
  MUS 7270 Music Technology 3 units
  MUS 7280 Creativity in Music 3 units
  MUS 7290 Psychology & Sociology in Music 3 units
  MUS 7370 Music in Chinese & Other societies 3 units
         
II. Electives Courses 21 units
  Any seven course on offer* 21 units
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        30 units
 
* Please choose seven of the following courses:
 
  MUS 7300 Curriculum Development & Music Materials 3 units
  MUS 7310 Choral Pedagogy 3 units
  MUS 7320 Conducting Practicum 3 units
  MUS 7340 Virtual Music Classroom 3 units
  MUS 7350 Piano Pedagogy 3 units
  MUS 7360 Pedagogy Workshop 3 units
  MUS 7380 The Teaching of Chinese Music 3 units
  MUS 7390 Composition Seminar 3 units
  MUS 7400 Current Practices in 21st Century Composition 3 units
  MUS 7420 Choral Training from a Kodály Perspective 3 units
  MUS 7430 Music in Early Childhood 3 units
  MUS 7440 Current Practices in Early Childhood Music Education 3 units
  MUS 7450 Sources, Genres, & Performance: Analytical Approaches 3 units
  MUS 7460 Sources, Genres, & Performance: Historical Perspectives 3 units
  MUS 7470 Advanced Piano Pedagogy Workshop 3 units
  MUS 7480 Advanced Studies in Chinese Music 3 units
  MUS 7490 Orff & Dalcroze Approaches to Music Teaching 3 units
  MUS 7500 Issues in the Study of Popular Music: Rock Music in Global Perspective 3 units
  MUS 7510 Arranging for Small Ensembles 3 units
  MUS 7520 Studies in Choral Literature 3 units
  MUS 7530 Studies in Piano Literature 3 units
 
 
 
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Source: Calendar/Bulletin 2015-2016
Last modified: July 2015