Supporting Project

Working with your supervisor, you will identify a range of activities to undertake in support of the development of your principal project. You will be encouraged to draw upon learning opportunities within your Department, the School of Music, and the Conservatoire as whole. Examples might include: performance classes and masterclasses; departmental classes and ensembles; attendance at concerts; critical reflection on performances recorded on video; peer mentoring; research department events, including the Exchange; auditing classes and modules either close to or far from your discipline; and/or creative interdisciplinary projects in collaboration with students from other programmes.

You will also be expected to undertake your own research into the works being prepared for your principal project, drawing on written and audiovisual resources available to you through the Whittaker Library and other print and online sources.

Aims

This module is designed to:

• Develop of a range of skills that support your artistic development
• Enable you to take responsibility for your own learning
• Foster a critical and reflective attitude towards your artistic practice
• Recognise the relationship between your work and broader social and historical contexts

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module you will be able to:

• LO1 Take responsibility for engagement between context, audience and musical material, projecting your ideas fluently and with confidence in a range of contexts
• LO2 Demonstrate sophisticated knowledge of practices, languages, materials, technologies and techniques relevant to your discipline, and their associated texts, resources and concepts
• LO3 Engage with a significant level of critical self-reflection in relation to your artistic practice

Assessment 1

You will be assessed through:

• Viva – Pass/Fail

The viva examination will be carried out in association with one of your assessed Principal Project outputs, and will cover two main areas. You will be asked to outline the supporting activities that you have carried out during the course of the programme and reflect upon the way in which these activities have supported your development as a musician.

Further to that, the examiners will invite you to put the project under consideration into context, for instance:

• What were your artistic intentions?
• In what ways does your work sit alongside canonic interpretations, and in what ways are you breaking new ground?
• What technical and musical challenges did you face in completing the project, and to what extent did you overcome these?
• What future directions do you intend to explore?

Assessment criteria

Assessors will look for:

LO1 – Take responsibility for engagement between context, audience and musical material, projecting your ideas fluently and with confidence in a range of contexts

• rationale for supporting activities undertaken
• informed and creative engagement with a range of study pathways
• awareness of the role of the musician in a range of contexts

LO2 – Demonstrate sophisticated knowledge of practices, languages, materials, technologies and techniques relevant to your discipline, and their associated texts, resources and concepts

• articulation of a rationale for chosen areas of study and performance
• contextual and historical knowledge of selected repertoire
• awareness of relevant literature and other sources of information

LO3 – Engage with a significant level of critical self-reflection in relation to your artistic practice

• depth of reflection
• effective communication
• fresh insight

Alignment of assessment

	Assessment 1
LO1	x
LO2	x
LO3	x

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Summary details

Module Title	Supporting Project
Module Coordinator	Head of Department
Credit Rating	40 SCQF (20 ECTS)
Status	Core
Pre-requisites	None
Co-requisites	Principal Project
Anti-requisites	None
Minimum and maximum number of students	1-10
Learning modes	Indicative hours
Tutorials	6
Supervised/taught group activity	20
Independent study	374
Total notional student effort	400