Master of Arts in Music
Programme Director: Dr ELIAS, Andre J P
The MA in Music is a two-year part-time or one-year full-time taught master’s degree requiring 30 credit units. The programme aims to stimulate enquiry and reflective professional and creative activity; to provide opportunities for scholarship in music and education; to provide theoretical, practical, and technological frameworks for pedagogical, creative and academic accomplishment in the Hong Kong cultural context; and to contribute to the development of the scholastic community and society at large.
The structure of the curriculum is as follows:
| I) | Required Elective Courses | 9 units |
| II) | Electives Courses | 21 units |
| 30 units |
Requirements
| I. | Required Elective Courses | 9 units |
| MUS 7260 Research Methods in Music | 3 units | |
| MUS 7280 Creativity in Music | 3 units | |
| MUS 7290 Psychology and Sociology in Music | 3 units | |
| MUS 7370 Music in Chinese and Other Societies | 3 units | |
| MUS 7440 Current Practices in Early Childhood Music Education | 3 units | |
| II. | Electives Courses | 21 units |
| Seven of the following courses: | ||
| MUS 7270 Music Technology | 3 units | |
| MUS 7300 Curriculum Development and Music Materials | 3 units | |
| MUS 7310 Choral Pedagogy | 3 units | |
| MUS 7320 Conducting Practicum | 3 units | |
| MUS 7330 Advanced MIDI Applications | 3 units | |
| MUS 7340 Virtual Music Classroom | 3 units | |
| MUS 7350 Piano Pedagogy | 3 units | |
| MUS 7360 Pedagogy Workshop | 3 units | |
| MUS 7380 The Teaching of Chinese Music | 3 units | |
| MUS 7390 Composition Seminar | 3 units | |
| MUS 7400 Current Practices in 21st Century Composition | 3 units | |
| MUS 7411 Dissertation Project | 3 units | |
| MUS 7412 Dissertation Project | 3 units | |
| MUS 7420 Choral Training from a Kodály Perspective | 3 units | |
| MUS 7430 Music in Early Childhood | 3 units | |
| MUS 7450 Sources, Genres, and Performance: Analytical Approaches | 3 units | |
| MUS 7460 Sources, Genres, and Performance: Historical Perspectives | 3 units | |
| MUS 7470 Advanced Piano Pedagogy Workshop | 3 units | |
| MUS 7480 Advanced Studies in Chinese Music | 3 units | |
| MUS 7490 Orff and Dalcroze Approaches to Music Teaching | 3 units | |
| MUS 7500 Issues in the Study of Popular Music: Rock Music in Global Perspective | 3 units | |
| MUS 7510 Arranging for Small Ensembles | 3 units | |
| MUS 7520 Studies in Choral Literature | 3 units | |
| MUS 7530 Studies in Piano Literature | 3 units | |
| MUS 7540 Current Topics in World Music | 3 units | |
| MUS 7550 Arranging for Choirs and Vocal Ensembles | 3 units | |
| 30 units |
