Graduate Diploma in Music (GD-MUS) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Demonstrate a strong knowledge and understanding of their discipline
• Pursue musical knowledge and skills independently, with intellectual honesty and rigorous methods of inquiry
• Use and assimilate the potential of technologies to facilitate the dissemination of musical skills, knowledge and information
• Make critical, informed and sophisticated responses to new musical ideas, methodologies and theoretical frameworks
• Show empathy, self-reflection and critical intelligence in the dissemination of skills and knowledge in their specialisation
• Work competently and productively in a musical setting, both alone and in groups
• Integrate a holistic view of music from different times and places into their working and intellectual lives
• Participate with integrity, discrimination, sound knowledge and understanding in national and international debates, dialogues and discussions in their area of specialisation and in the discipline as a whole
• Communicate effectively
• Have a lifelong commitment to learning

Generic skills

Graduates should also have developed the following skills:

• A sound attitude towards undertaking life-long learning in music
• A well-developed capacity to understand and participate as an individual and in collaborative teams as a leader or as a team member
• A sophisticated level of written, verbal and musical communication skills
• An ability to think critically and analytically about the musical experience in all its facets: as performance, as composition, and as historical-sociocultural document

Graduate attributes