Music and Philosophy

Master of Arts (with Honours) - MA (Hons)
University of Aberdeen

Course details

Course description

Music at Aberdeen offers the opportunity to learn, compose and perform with world-renowned composers, conductors, musicologists and researchers working in all genres, styles and periods. You will grow as a musician and performer while seeking to understand the world around us and how we might answer the Big Questions that humans have wrestled with throughout the ages. You will gain the strong intellectual skills sought by employers in many fields and transferable to a wide range of careers.

Philosophy attempts to answer questions such as: What is knowledge? What is the nature of truth? Why should we act morally? Philosophy is just as much the study of reasoning and argument as it is the application of thought to specific problems.

What makes Philosophy at Aberdeen especially attractive is the breadth of courses, the user-friendly materials you will use and the experts who will teach you. In your first year alone, you can study topics such as How Should One Live? Controversial Questions, and Experience, Knowledge and Reality.

In Music Studies, you can develop your interests and abilities in music through courses in performance, composition, theory, musicianship and history of music, taking advantage of the outstanding quality of our teachers, instruments and facilities and many opportunities to perform.

In addition to a career in music, the academic skills you will develop will open opportunities in education, history and heritage, or applied in another sector such as media or business and internationally.

Subjects

  • Humanities
  • Music
  • Philosophy

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University of Aberdeen

study@abdn.ac.uk

+44(0) 1224 272090

Provider website

Directorate of External Relations

King's College

Aberdeen

AB24 3FX

Entry requirements

Scottish Higher minimum entry requirements: A,A,B,B

Applicants who achieve AABB or better over S4 and S5 are likely to be made an offer of admission. This may be unconditional or it may be conditional, dependent upon academic profile. Good performance in additional Highers / Advanced Highers may be required. Note: we do not double count a Higher and Advanced Higher in the same subject, but we do consider that a B at Adv Higher is equivalent to an A grade at Higher. National 5 English at minimum grade C

Scottish Advanced Higher minimum entry requirements: A,B,B

Second year entry may be possible in most school based subjects. A minimum of ABB overall in Adv Higher is required. Adv Higher at A in the subject selected for Single Honours or AB in the subject selected for Joint Honours.

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Course details

Full time

16th Sep 2024 to 16th Sep 2028

Cost: £1,820.00 (ex. VAT)

Venue details

Main Site

University Office

Regent Walk

King's College

Aberdeen

AB24 3FX

Who to contact

study@abdn.ac.uk

+44(0) 1224 272090

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