Bachelor of Music (Hons) - Composition for Screen
- 3 years
- Duration
- 17,500 GBP/year
- Price
- Rolling admission
- Start
- Rolling admission
- Deadline
- Bachelor
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Farnham / United Kingdom
- Location
Program description
The BMus (Hons) Composition for Screen degree at UCA will help you transform your passion for music into a profession as a skilled, collaborative, and insightful composer.
This degree, situated at UCA Farnham, focuses on musical composition for moving image, and will help you to create your own creative voice while learning a variety of skills in:
- Creating compositions
- Technical expertise and understanding
- Notation for music (documenting and communicating your composition)
- Philosophy of music
You'll have established your own approach to composition by the time you graduate, having taken advantage of collaborative opportunities with filmmakers, animators, actors, and game designers. You'll be a resilient and adaptive problem solver who can work alone or in groups, is informed about the creative industries, and has the foundations of a professional network to help you get started.
Before beginning your first year of study for a degree, you can also enroll in an international foundation year that focuses on English and essential creative abilities. You can also spend a year on a professional placement to obtain invaluable work experience before moving on to your final year of study.
Program structure
Year 1
- Launch Week
- Analogue A: Early Explorations in Physical Sound
- Equality Diversity and Inclusion
- Analogue B: Application of Early Sound Techniques
- Opportunity
- Digital 0: Fundamental Production Techniques
- Professional Development
- Digital 1: Fundamental Production Techniques
- ATOM Activities
- PLE Digital Outcome
Year 2
- Launch Week
- Space: Sound and Acoustics
- The Conscious Practitioner
- Elective Unit
- Opportunity Week
- Time: Organising Sound for Screen
- Placement / Live Brief
- Elective Unit
- ATOM Activities
- PLE Digital Outcome
- Professional practice year (if undertaken)
Year 3
- Launch Week
- Dissertation
- Music Business
- Opportunity Week
- Final Major Project
Price
Fee for two semesters (1 year) is 17,500 GBP for international students
We have offer a range of scholarships and fee discounts.
Requirements for applicants
If you do not have qualifications from the United Kingdom, we will accept equivalent qualifications from your native country for admittance into our programs.
In addition to academic credentials, some of our courses require a portfolio of previous work.
For our Bachelor's courses, we usually require that you have:
- High school leaving certificate or equivalent.
- A transcript showing successful completion of one year of a Bachelor's degree from a recognised university with CGPA 3.8.
English Language requirements for BA/BSc courses:
- IELTS UKVI or Academic - Listening 5.5, Reading 5.5, Speaking 5.5, Writing 5.5, Total 6.0
- Test of English as Foreign Language (TOEFL) iBT - Listening 17, Reading 18, Speaking 20, Writing 17, Total 80
- Pearson Test of English (Academic) - Listening 59, Reading 59, Speaking 59, Writing 59, Total 59
- Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) or Cambridge English Proficiency - Listening 162, Reading 162, Speaking 162, Writing 162, Total 169
- Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English (ISE) - Listening Merit, Reading Merit, Speaking Merit, Writing Merit, Total ISE III
- LanguageCert International ESOL SELT - Listening 33, Reading 33, Speaking 33, Writing 33, Total B2 Communicator High Pass
Portfolio requirements
For these course, you must perform an individual piece as an audition. This piece can be up to two minutes long and can be one of the following: a brief modern text (play or screenplay); a short piece of Shakespeare; or an original work you have composed.
About the university
The UCA team firmly believes that creativity enhances the vitality, innovation, and humanity of global communities. That is why the university has been a fervent supporter of creative research and teaching for the past 160 years.
Architecture, crafts, fashion, graphic design, illustration, fine art, photography, film, media, the performing arts, and creative business are among areas of study offered by the university. Employers in the creative sector hold a high regard for this programs because of their excellent teaching standards.
We want to inspire people to use their creativity to drive change, overcome challenges and improve the lives of others.
So we’ve designed our university to be an inclusive, dynamic environment. Our campuses across Surrey and Kent, our Institute for Creative Innovation in Xiamen, China, and our homes within partner organisations such as the Maidstone Television Studios all have one thing in common: they are places to forge inspiring partnerships, make work with purpose and build real solutions to human problems across the globe – whether that’s as part of our vibrant teaching and research community, or as a student on one of our courses.
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