Music (Community Music)

Community Music is an exciting new pathway building on a number of years of successful musical engagement between our students, our music organisations and groups in the community.

You'll develop as a practising musician into a confident music leader through improvisation, creative workshops and placements.

The course explores the diverse sector of community music in non-formal settings including community singing, the justice system, early years, the disadvantaged and those with special educational needs. You'll develop a sense of where community music sits in relation to professional music leading, teaching and music therapy.

You'll learn the skills you need to become a professional community music leader. You'll understand the importance of reflective practice, together with the ideologies of inclusive and accessible music making in a non-formal setting.

You'll study approaches from music psychology and music therapy that support community music practice, and design and create a community music project. You'll identify the aims and outcomes, understand the importance of partnerships, and learn to evaluate and budget accordingly.

You'll understand the community music "marketplace" in terms of the competitive process of obtaining funding for your projects.