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