Music The Open University UK

Overview

Within this Music DipHE from The Open University UK, you’ll combine practical activities, which involve making your own recordings, with learning about the scientific basis for music and how it is heard and perceived. You'll develop the technical skills to analyse and create music in different styles, and examine the technologies that are used to produce, manipulate and transmit music.

Key facts:

• Study a wide range of musical repertoires and practices

• Explore music through analysis, composition and contextual study

• Create your own music with the help of specialist software 

• Relevant to a wide range of careers including music performance, teaching, arts administration, community music leadership, and sound recordist

Skills for career development

Studying music will provide you with an adaptable set of skills that can lead in many directions and which are greatly valued by employers. Broadly summarised these are critical thinking, analysis, collaborative working, communication, and expertise in working with abstract structures and processes. You will sharpen your IT, writing, and independent thinking skills, and develop an ability to assimilate and evaluate relevant information when constructing an argument. These are key skills in complex organisations, and are highly sought after in the world beyond study – whether you’re already working, volunteering, or changing career.

Career opportunities:

Study of the arts and humanities requires an understanding of human activities in diverse cultural environments and historical contexts. The breadth of study and range of musical repertoire and practice explored, combined with clear thinking and communication, make the Diploma of Higher Education in Music relevant to a wide range of careers, including:

• the cultural and creative industries
• education
• public administration, local government, the civil service, art institutions, and social services
• advertising, journalism, publishing, and public relations
• business, banking and retail
• human resources
• charities and campaigning