English and Drama MPhil

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Provision available for supervision of research projects in English literature; American literature; drama and gender studies.(read more)

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Performing Arts MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Supervision available for research projects in areas of innovative performance; performance theory and analysis; film and television; music; composition.(read more)

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Popular Performances MA

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Contact provider for further course (read more)

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Contemporary Performance-Making MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course is approximately 70 per cent practice and 30 per cent theory, and an ideal programme for practising artists developing their own work; there is a strong practical focus and students may choose to do a practical dissertation creating a full-length professional standard performance piece.(read more)

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Education MA

Study modes: Full time

Course description: The scheme is designed for students who require a flexible programme of postgraduate study linked to their work within an educational context. It provides students with the opportunity to cultivate critical, analytical and higher order understanding of their own practice, as well as to bring an element of freshness into their subject knowledge and understanding.(read more)

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Music MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This course offers 3 distinctive pathways: Music and popular culture; music on stage and on screen; contemporary practice in composition; it provides students with a thorough grounding in advanced musical studies.(read more)

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Contemporary Arts and Music/Contemporary Arts/Composition and Sonic Art/Social Sculpture MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Interdisciplinary modules in creative strategies and research and development are taken by all students; students then take 1 of the following specialist modules, depending upon their degree pathway: Contemporary practice in art and music; theories and practices of social sculpture; composition and sonic art practice; at the end of the course, there is an annual degree festival of the Master's work.(read more)

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Advanced Musical Studies MMus

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: A programme offering a balance of broad-based and specialist training, designed to work as a self-standing qualification or as a preparation for research (including practise-based research).(read more)

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Music AMusM

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research supervision available in all areas of staff expertise: MPhil and PhD are for research students specialising in historical, analytical or cultural aspects of music; AMusM and AMusD are for composers who work on portfolio of compositions as agreed with supervisor; examination is solely by portfolio.(read more)

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Art, Design and Performance by Practice MRes

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course aims to provide the relevant training in research methodology at Master’s level, as a suitable basis for progression to Doctoral practice-based research; it is designed to serve as the 1st year of study for students who intend to continue with research in areas of: Fine art in its broadest sense, including writing, curating and collaborative practices; performance as it is conceived in the contexts of both fine art and theatre.(read more)

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Music MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research supervision available in all areas of staff expertise: MPhil and PhD are for research students specialising in historical, analytical or cultural aspects of music; AMusM and AMusD are for composers who work on portfolio of compositions as agreed with supervisor; examination is solely by portfolio.(read more)

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Devised Performance MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: A practice-based programme intended to build upon the knowledge and experience gained at undergraduate level by students in performing arts and drama related programmes; and is intended to develop strong independent performance makers, who have knowledge of the professional performing arts sector and the ability to market themselves to that sector, in addition to develop creative and critically reflective practitioners.(read more)

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Music MMus

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course is designed for musicians from a variety of backgrounds, particularly those with strengths in 1 of 3 main areas: performance (including jazz, rock, pop and traditional styles); composition (which may include music for acoustic and electro-acoustic resources); musicology (including the study of popular music and film music).(read more)

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Music MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research supervision available in areas of: general musicology; music theatre; acoustic and electro-acoustic composition; performance and performance practice; recent research projects have covered Giovanni Rovetta, Rachmaninov, Richard Strauss, Debussy, George Gershwin, pitch-class set analysis, rhythm perception in mainstream and language-impaired children, and methods of analysing experimental music.(read more)

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Music MMus

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: 1/3 may be from other humanities departments; students may specialise in historical musicology; theory and analysis; or composition; alternatively, they may mix modules from each field in appropriate combinations; specialist modules cover current approaches to scholarly writing on music as well as advanced techniques of research and composition.(read more)

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Music MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Supervision is available for research in the following main areas: composition; cross-art collaboration; critical musicology; popular music; contemporary popular song; electro-acoustic composition; music and new media.(read more)

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Performance and Multi-Media MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: There are 4 pathways: Theatre and communications: performance linguistics and language; theatre and technological synergies: virtual theatre and digital art; making performance: theatre practice and philosophy; theatre and management: production staging and co-ordination.(read more)

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Music MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Students are given supervision throughout this programme; staff research interest areas include: 16th-century Italian music; gender; popular music, especially early jazz; 18th-century music; music in the 1930s; 19th-century Italian opera; American music; rock; music and cross-cultural interaction; classical chamber music; Beethoven sketch studies; Schenker; composition, especially for film, theatre and television; music analysis; music semiotics.(read more)

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Practice as Research (Drama) MA (Research)

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course is aimed at practitioners who want time to develop and reflect on their work in a supportive and challenging environment; it is also meant for recent graduates who want to develop either a body of practice or who want to do practice-based research at a higher level; the course leads through supervision to project planning with practice-based presentations early in the autumn term, which are then written up for the final dissertation.(read more)

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Performance Practice MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Kent offers a unique 4-year undergraduate programme where, in the final year, students take a pre-professional specialist pathway across the entire year to graduate with an MDrama; the pathways include design for performance, technical theatre, creative producing, stand-up comedy, contemporary performance practice, performance applications and theatre dramaturgy.(read more)

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