Music (Popular Music) - BA (Hons)

University of Hull

Let your creativity flow and gain the skills, knowledge and confidence to pursue your passion for music beyond university.Through practical projects and lectures, you’ll study a range of technical skills from project management to fluency with key pieces of music software. You’ll also build your research and social media skills for promoting your work and festival programming. Working with experts, you’ll explore and challenge the value, status and significance of music in our society. You’ll get hands-on with industry standard recording studios and performance spaces. This course is a variant of the BA Music programme. You’ll share the same modules as other BA Music students, but your assessments and specialist cluster groups will focus on popular music.**Why study at Hull?**- Learn from performance-led staff: From DJs to band members, stage performers to session musicians, our academics are actively making and performing music. - 100% employability: A perfect 100% of our students are in work or further study 15 months after graduating.¹- Industry-standard facilities: Get exclusive access to our 400-seat concert venue, professional recording studios, ambisonic studios, and rehearsal spaces.**Where could this take me?**When you graduate from Hull, you’ll have access to our network of professional partners, plus a professional portfolio of work to boost your CV. With the transferable skills you’ve learned, you can develop a career in producing, audio engineering, live and sound engineering, teaching, journalism, and more. Recent graduates have gone on to become conductors, performers and managers. Many have set up record labels – some even before they graduated.¹ (Music) UK domicile full-time first degree leavers Higher Education Graduate Outcomes statistics, for the academic year 2020/21, published by HESA June 2023.

Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education