Course summary

The MA Songwriting course is designed for solo artists, songwriters, bands, and producers serious about songwriting and composition. Are you ready to create high-quality, career-defining music with the potential to change the world? Working as a solo writer, co-writer, or artist collaborator, that’s the level of motivation we are looking for. Bringing your unique skills and creative energy to the table, we’ll equip you with the knowledge and confidence to establish yourself as a professional songwriter in the creative sector. You’ll master core songwriting and composition methodologies, navigate the path from demo to master, refine your production skills, work with producers in professional studios, and generate income streams while developing your critical thinking and research skills to a postgraduate level. Within a collaborative community of like-minded artists, you'll attend in-house bootcamps, as well as our immersive WaterBear songwriting residential experience, and participate in weekly songwriting sessions. You'll receive one-to-one mentoring and teaching from accomplished music industry experts, both in class and via a virtual learning environment. Throughout the course, you’ll strengthen your commercial knowledge, explore multiple income streams, develop your brand, build your repertoire, and finally, realise your artistic vision through a major commercial project. Whatever your reasons for wanting to study, gaining this MA could also give you more professional choices, more potential income streams, and those all-important letters after your name. It’s awarded by one of the UK’s leading specialist universities for the creative industries, Falmouth University.