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Master's Degree in Music: Master's Degree in Music

Code: K0823S6

Degree:
Master of Culture and Arts

Degree title:
Master of Culture and Arts
Master of Culture and Arts

Credits:
60 ects

Duration:
1.5 years (60 cr)

Start semester:
Autumn 2023

Descriptions

The Master’s degree in Music provides students with competence to work as specialists in demanding research, development and innovation management and leadership positions in the music industry and music education. Graduates with a Master’s degree in Music Pedagogy or Music Performance are professionals with a great aptitude for continuous learning, strong communication and interaction skills needed in specialist work and remarkable competence in their area of specialty.

The curriculum of the program offers a framework within which a personal development plan is devised for each student. Students will select a combination of classes that are necessary for their professional development. This blended learning program consists of specialist lectures, workshops, peer teamwork and individual mentoring in the form of on-campus and online meetings as well as distance teaching and learning. It is possible to complete the program while working part-time or even full-time.

Objectives
- to develop expertise needed in current and foreseeable duties of performing musicians and music pedagogues.
- to strengthen competence needed in research, development and innovation in the music industry.
- to support planning, execution and evaluation of RDI projects that respond to topical challenges.
- to encourage music-related research, development, and innovation that requires specialist expertise.

Show study timings by semester, study year or period

Code Name Credits (cr) 2023-2024 2024-2025 Autumn 2023 Spring 2024 Autumn 2024 1. / 2023 2. / 2023 3. / 2024 4. / 2024 1. / 2024 2. / 2024
K0823S6-1001
Common Core Studies

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20
K000EQ09 Consolidation of Expertise 5
K000EQ11 Building Professional Wellbeing 5
K000EQ12 Leadership of Development Processes 5
XX00EJ16 Research Methods and Skills 5
K0823S6-1002
Advanced Studies

(Choose ects: 5)

5
K000EQ13 Advanced Professional Studies 5
K0823S6-1003
Master's Thesis

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30
XX00FB87 Master’s Thesis 30
K0823S6-1004
Elective Studies

(Choose ects: 5)

5
Total 60 45 10 22.5 22.5 10 11.5 11.5 11.5 11.5 5 5

Due to the timing of optional and elective courses, credit accumulation per semester / academic year may vary.

STRUCTURE Master (A18.12.2014/1129)

Asetuksen 18.12.2014/1129 mukainen rakenne. 2 § Opintojen rakenne Ylempään ammattikorkeakoulututkintoon johtaviin opintoihin kuuluu: 1) syventäviä ammattiopintoja; 2) vapaasti valittavia opintoja; 3) opinnäytetyö.

Master´s Thesis
Master’s Thesis
Advanced Professional Studies
Consolidation of Expertise
Building Professional Wellbeing
Leadership of Development Processes
Research Methods and Skills
Advanced Professional Studies
Elective Studies

No attached course units

Not grouped

ARENE 2022::UAS shared competences::Master’s degree

Replaces the “Metropolia's Generic Competences::Master's Degree” -matrix. Heidi Rontu/31.8.2022

Ethics

The graduating student assesses and promotes the realisation of ethical principles and values of their field of profession, taking equality and non-discrimination into account.
- Is able to promote ethically sustainable activities and the realisation of ethical reflection in their different operating environments.
- Promotes the realisation of the ethical principles and values of their field.
- Makes decisions taking individual, communal and societal perspectives into account.
- Promotes the realisation of diversity and accessibility.
- Implements the principles of responsible conduct of research and promotes their application in their work community.
- Is able to manage societally influential activities based on ethical values.

Consolidation of Expertise
Building Professional Wellbeing
Leadership of Development Processes
Research Methods and Skills
Advanced Professional Studies
Master’s Thesis
Proactive development

The graduating student is able to manage the development of new solutions that anticipate the future and produces new information using different research and development methods.
- Produces new information and reforms operating methods, combining competence in different fields.
- Is able to implement research, development and innovation projects and apply different research and development methods.
- Is able to develop new customer-oriented, sustainable and economically viable solutions, anticipating the future.
- Is able to analyse the current situation and anticipate the future of their field and changes in the operating environment.

Consolidation of Expertise
Building Professional Wellbeing
Leadership of Development Processes
Research Methods and Skills
Advanced Professional Studies
Master’s Thesis
Internationality and multiculturalism

The graduating student is able to develop and manage multicultural and international operating environments and networks.
- Is able to develop operating methods that take multiculturalism into account in their work community.
- Is able to anticipate the impacts and opportunities of global development and phenomena.
- Is able to interact, communicate and develop activities internationally in their own field.

Consolidation of Expertise
Building Professional Wellbeing
Leadership of Development Processes
Advanced Professional Studies
Master’s Thesis
Sustainable development

The graduating student develops and manages sustainable and responsible operating methods in their work and promotes sustainable change in their work community and society.
- Is able to apply the knowledge and future visions of sustainable development comprehensively as a basis for sustainable solutions.
- Is able to analyse and assess systemic dependencies of complex multidisciplinary problems and the different dimensions of solutions
- Is able to manage the search, implementation and establishment of sustainable solutions and operating models in their work

Building Professional Wellbeing
Leadership of Development Processes
Advanced Professional Studies
Master’s Thesis
Learning to learn

The graduating student promotes their own and their community's continuous learning and competence development, drawing on knowledge from different fields and the opportunities of digitalisation.
- Is able to assess and develop their expertise diversely and in a goal-oriented manner at different stages of their career and life.
- Is able to acquire, critically assess and produce information while taking into account the perspectives of different fields.
- Is able to develop and manage goal oriented, continuous learning in their community.

Consolidation of Expertise
Building Professional Wellbeing
Leadership of Development Processes
Research Methods and Skills
Advanced Professional Studies
Master’s Thesis
Operating in a workplace

The graduating student is able to develop and manage their work community and reforms working life. - Is able to develop and manage multidisciplinary teams and work communities.
- Is able to develop the communication and interaction culture of work communities.
- Is able to develop and manage the comprehensive well-being of a work community.
- Utilises the opportunities of technology and digitalisation in development and management.
- Promotes the resilience of a work community.

Consolidation of Expertise
Building Professional Wellbeing
Leadership of Development Processes
Advanced Professional Studies
Master’s Thesis
Not grouped

Code Name Credits (cr)
K0823S6-1001
Common Core Studies

(Choose all)

20
K000EQ09 Consolidation of Expertise 5
K000EQ11 Building Professional Wellbeing 5
K000EQ12 Leadership of Development Processes 5
XX00EJ16 Research Methods and Skills 5
K0823S6-1002
Advanced Studies

(Choose ects: 5)

5
K000EQ13 Advanced Professional Studies 5
K0823S6-1003
Master's Thesis

(Choose all)

30
XX00FB87 Master’s Thesis 30
K0823S6-1004
Elective Studies

(Choose ects: 5)

5