Irish Music Studies – Postgraduate Certificate / Postgraduate Diploma / Master of Arts Programme content
Key information
Key Information
- Complete full-time in one year
- Delivered primarily on campus, with the first semester offered online, face-to-face or blended
- Modules taught during autumn and spring semesters
- Submit final presentation at the end of the summer semester to achieve the MA
- Full-time students take 5 core modules and 2 elective modules in the autumn semester and 3 core modules and 2 elective modules in the spring semester.
You will learn through a blend of
- Lectures, workshops, and hands-on activities
- Reflective practice and guided research
- Regular feedback from faculty and peers
Programme content
Core modules
- Framing Irish Music: Sources & Discourses 1 (MD6171) explores the printed, manuscript, and audio-visual sources of Irish Music, and the main discourses around this music over the past three centuries.
- Music Ethnography (MU6061) trains students in the epistemology, methodology, methods and techniques for sustained ethnographic inquiry.
- Introduction to Fieldwork Techniques (MD6021) introduces students to basic elements of fieldwork including its ethical principles, participant observation and interview techniques.
- Irish Traditional Music Performance Research Seminar (MD6161) introduces students to current research in traditional music studies.
- Introduction to Ritual Studies (MD6041) equips students with a knowledge of the emergence and development of ritual studies as an interdisciplinary discourse.
Electives – choose 2
- Colloquium 1 (MD6111)
- Independent Study 1 (MD6051)
- Media Technologies for Performing Arts & Arts Research (MD6031)
- Writing & the Documentation of Arts Practice 1 (MD6071)
- Broadening through Awareness, Activism and the Arts (Postgraduate) (BR5001)
Books and journal articles needed for the course will be available online through the UL Glucksman Library.
For more information on each module, you can search the faculty, school and module code on UL’s Book of Modules.
Exit option
There is an option to exit after the autumn semester and earn a certificate qualification.
Core modules
- Framing Irish Music: Sources & Discourses 2 (MD6152) engages students in a systematic examination and analysis of printed, manuscript, and audio-visual sources of Irish Music.
- Critical Engagements with Irish Traditional Music (MD6081) examines writings on and sources of Irish traditional music to enhance understanding of this tradition.
- The Anthropology of Music (MU5022) explores current issues in ethnomusicology.
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- Irish Traditional Music Practicum 2 (MU5612) enables students to create and design their own performance programme under the supervision of the course director.
Electives – choose 2
- Colloquium 2 (MD6102)
- Independent Study 2 (MD6052)
- Broadening: Introduction to Place-Making (Postgraduate) (BR5002)
- Critical Contexts for Arts Management & Cultural Policy (MD6062)
Books and journal articles needed for the course will be available online through the UL Glucksman Library.
For more information on each module, you can search the faculty, school and module code on UL’s Book of Modules.
Exit option
There is an option to exit after this semester with a diploma qualification
Core module
- Final Presentation (MD5522) enables the student to undertake a substantial research project, which can include a performance element.
Books and journal articles needed for the course will be available online through the UL Glucksman Library.
For more information on each module, you can search the faculty, school and module code on UL’s Book of Modules.
