Module manager: Dr Simon Baines
Email: S.G.Baines@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
| MUSS8000 | Music Work Placement Year |
| MUSS9000 | Year Abroad (BMus) |
This module is not approved as a discovery module
To demonstrate the ability to follow a programme of study for an academic year at an agreed exchange destination outside the UK.
- Developing ability and experience in reflective practice, in support of personal/academic development (normally in an on-line format) in accordance with School guidelines.
- Broadened knowledge in specific areas of the appropriate discipline and/or related subject(s).
- Knowledge of the culture, institutions and working practices of another country.
- Academic and personal development in the environment of a foreign institution.
- Working knowledge of another European language (European placements only).
- The ability to gather and critically evaluate information from a variety of sources.
- Skills necessary for the communication of information, ideas, problems, and solutions in a variety of ways.
- The exercise of initiative, personal responsibility and decision making.
- Personal skills required to live and work successfully in the environment of the foreign country.
To be arranged with the host institution, but will normally comprise a combination of taught modules in the appropriate discipline and/or allied subject(s) chosen to complement the Leeds degree programme. The learning context will include complex and unpredictable situations. The study will be structured within a framework that provides increasing breadth and depth and opportunities for developing proficiency in the application of concepts and techniques.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private study hours | 1200 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 0 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 1200 | ||
According to the requirements of the host institution.
Email tutorials with the School Study Abroad and International coordinators and/or BA Music programme manager, and the University Study Abroad Office.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment | Completion of reporting/reviewing tasks set during the period of study abroad, normally supported by evidence from the host institution (typically a transcript) confirming that the period of study abroad has been completed successfully. | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Project folio: It is difficult to give precise parameters, given the wide variation in types of project. The scope and content of the folio will be agreed by negotiation with the module tutor. Resit arrangements: The scenarios below presume calculations based on modules passed, or weeks completed, if there are no examination results available. - If you complete at least 75% of the year abroad, it will be presumed that you have completed the year successfully. Please be prepared to provide clear evidence of the number of weeks teaching you have attended, if you do not complete modules and receive grades. Re-sit opportunities will normally be possible if you make an application for mitigating circumstances which is accepted by the relevant committee. If you choose not to take this opportunity, you would transfer to the 3-year BA programme. - If you complete 50%-74% of the year abroad, the School will normally organise a re-sit opportunity that could be completed in the UK. Unless ill-health prevents this, it should be completed before the final year begins, so that progression to level 3 at Leeds can be confirmed. - If you complete less than half the year abroad, you would normally transfer to the BA programme. However, you could discuss the possibility of a re-sit of a semester or year with staff. This would be conditional on successful selection for a place abroad through the normal procedures, and based on the principles outlined above. Funding issues will be complicated (see 1. below) In line with other Leeds modules, you are allowed a third attempt, though obviously it would be necessary to take further time away if you wished to take this opportunity; the conditions above would apply. 1. For instance, Erasmus grant money may have to be repaid, or housing contract refunds may not be available in the case of early termination. You would need to contact Student Finance if you fail to complete the year abroad, and you would have to negotiate funding for any re-sit attempt owing to ill health.
There is no reading list for this module
Last updated: 4/29/2024
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