MUS10220

Learning Outcomes:

In this course, students will:

1. Undertake close and sustained study of a number of representative genres in popular music.
2. Examine and gain knowledge of the social significance and contexts of these genres.
3. Develop skills in representing popular music and its theoretical issues through writing and analysis.
4. Become familiar with a number of current approaches to discussing and conceptualizing the structure, history, and cultural significance of popular music.

Indicative Module Content:

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Students will be provided with a weekly resource pack on Brightspace (UCD's virtual learning environment), which will consist of audio (and sometimes video) examples of music, required and supplementary reading material, short video lectures and/or powerpoint slides, and (sometimes) musical scores. Students will also be given a road map through this material, indicating how to work through it. Weekly classes will consist of both lecture and discussion-based tutorials. Students are expected to attend these sessions, and to have reviewed the materials in the folder for that week prior to attending (all materials will be posted at least one week in advance of the class).

The use of AI is permitted in creative uses in this module, as long as it is properly attributed. Any use should be accompanied by the prompts used to create content, along with a description of how the content was generated and manipulated. All uses of AI must be justified and a written rationale should be submitted with the assignment.

Weekly attendance is expected and will be monitored.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Each week, students will prepare a journal entry that either prepares materials for or responds to a reflection prompt. The final portfolio builds upon this work. You will choose two or three of your best entries and expand upon them, submitting a final portfolio. Detailed guidelines for this will be provided at the beginning of the trimester.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.