Module manager: James Mooney
Email: j.r.mooney@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
| MUS2231 | Music, Sound, and Media |
This module is not approved as a discovery module
Music, sound, and media are broad terms, and there are frequent intersections between these disciplinary areas. Human inventiveness and societal demands can drive technological developments in music, sound and media, enabling novel and diverse forms of creativity and interaction. Likewise, technological advances in these areas can lead to cultural change through engagement with new musical, audiovisual and mixed-media contexts. On this module you will analyse the relationships between music, sound, and media in critical contexts relating to staff specialisms. You will draw on relevant methodologies to critique music, sound and media within specific social, cultural and technological environments, and explore the issues and challenges that arise from their intersection. Please note this is an optional module and runs subject to enrolments. If a low number of students choose this module, then the module may not run and you may be asked to choose another module.
This module aims to develop your capability to engage critically with musicological sources and artifacts to analyse the relationships between music, sound, and media. You will learn to apply relevant methodologies to appraise connections between theories and practices of music, sound, and media, and their associated interdisciplinary contexts.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Show creative initiative in synthesising academic knowledge and skills from music and related disciplines.
2. Interrogate and critique methodologies used in the study of music, with a particular focus on sound, media, and/or their associated technologies.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
3. Show critical judgement in the selection and use of relevant research, practice and scholarship.
4. Communicate ideas in precise, organised and accessible ways.
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 8 | 2 | 16 |
| Seminar | 1 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Private study hours | 182.5 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 17.5 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Formative feedback on a preparatory task – which proposes and justifies a title for the final assessment, an associated research question, and a proposed choice of sources and methodology – will be provided before or within the seminar, helping to build skills in preparation for the final assignment. This feedback will be provided individually through Minerva. As at level 2, lectures will incorporate seminar elements (Q&A and group work) that engage students directly with aspects of source selection, critique and methodology.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Written Assignment | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
The assignment may use any discursive format, including e.g. a podcast or multimedia essay (incorporating online video or audio examples).
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 08/05/2025
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