Last modified: 06 Aug 2025 11:46
This course will explore practices and research from the fields of music, therapy, public health and medicine, to rigorously explore the relationship between music, health and wellbeing.
Students will be supported to undertake a range of self-directed research-based activities to develop a community music-based intervention in an area of their own interest.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course will begin by exploring practices and research from the fields of music, therapy, public health, and medicine, to rigorously explore the relationship between music, health and wellbeing.
As well as engaging in the academic debate around music, health, and wellbeing the course will develop a working knowledge and understanding of the musical practices available to medical and music practitioners, and to their potential uses in a breadth of health care settings.
This course through its seminars will explore approaches to designing intervention for communities, focusing closely on community partnership development, service-user based pedagogical approaches and design protocols (with a particular focus on Duty of Care and patient safety)
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Word Count: 6,000 Extensive written feedback will be provided on both assessment via MyAberdeen. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | Demonstrate how the Medical or Musical Practitioners apply a critical understanding of principal theories, concepts and principles in a range of community and educational settings. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Demonstrate and work with an understanding of the scope and defining features of the Music, Health, and Wellbeing field and an integrated knowledge of its main areas and boundaries. |
| Procedural | Apply | Apply skills in using a range of the professional skills, techniques & practices & materials associated with the field of community music & in practising routine methods of enquiry and research |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Undertake critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis of ideas, concepts information and issues in Music, Health and Wellbeing contexts, settings and practices. |
| Reflection | Create | Exercise autonomy and initiative in a range of design and implementation activities at a professional level in preparing for and engaging in practice. |
| Reflection | Create | The ability to articulate an understanding of defining features of this course’s content within Music, Health, and Wellbeing contexts. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Word Count: 6,000 Extensive written feedback will be provided on both assessment via MyAberdeen. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | Demonstrate how the Medical or Musical Practitioners apply a critical understanding of principal theories, concepts and principles in a range of community and educational settings. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Demonstrate and work with an understanding of the scope and defining features of the Music, Health, and Wellbeing field and an integrated knowledge of its main areas and boundaries. |
| Procedural | Apply | Apply skills in using a range of the professional skills, techniques & practices & materials associated with the field of community music & in practising routine methods of enquiry and research |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Undertake critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis of ideas, concepts information and issues in Music, Health and Wellbeing contexts, settings and practices. |
| Reflection | Create | Exercise autonomy and initiative in a range of design and implementation activities at a professional level in preparing for and engaging in practice. |
| Reflection | Create | The ability to articulate an understanding of defining features of this course’s content within Music, Health, and Wellbeing contexts. |
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