Course summary
Designed to help you push the boundaries in your chosen field; developing your academic prowess and capacity to move beyond music and sound; exploring broader realms of creative possibility. The innovation in sound master’s degree offers a flexible and multidisciplinary approach allowing you to tailor the course content to suit your own creative and career goals. Alongside honing your practical skill set through experimental technical exploration, you’ll be encouraged to take a collaborative approach to projects through forming connections with both highly experienced academic and industry professionals; providing opportunities for you to make your impact on the creative industries and community. Upon completion you will have developed your abilities to apply advanced production and project management techniques within a creative community as well as a professional portfolio of skills and experience tailored to you. In addition, students studying on this programme are encouraged to push themselves into areas of study that improve the lives of others. This course is taught by the dBs Institute and awarded by Falmouth University.
Modules
You will study a total of 5 modules, including a final major project. Over the course of five modules, you’ll be introduced to what it means to innovate across multiple disciplines, develop your own ideas within innovation, build a network of specialists within your chosen field and produce a final piece of work informed by your explorations and experiments in the previous modules. Modules: Exploration You will begin with an exploration of the theoretical concepts of innovation, examining studies of multi-disciplinary collaborations where innovation has been implemented to generate new ideas and solutions to problems. This will introduce you to a range of theoretical and creative applications that will help form your future work. Practice In this module we encourage you to be bold and to try new things through practical investigation and experimentation; and push you to further develop your own ‘voice’ in the area of music production. You will demonstrate a strategic and creative approach to problem solving, while embracing experimentation and iterative processes to refine your innovative ideas. Industry & Development You will identify and establish connections with specialists in their field, making use of networking potential, research hubs and forums, so that you may explore your chosen field of study more deeply. Collaboration can be sought with industry professionals, other institutions, businesses and international networks. Integration This module encourages you to deepen your postgraduate technical practice, develop your strengths in creating a project, potentially working in a team, within the cohort and multi-disciplinarily; with an emphasis on technical integration, such as interfacing between software and hardware. Implementation The realisation of your final major project within your own chosen area of innovation; made up of a proposal, logs of progress, the final exhibition of your work presented as a 'portfolio' or 'showreel' and an evaluation.
Assessment method
Assessment is 100% coursework and will be a mixture of practical portfolios, critical evaluations, planning documents, proposals and presentations.
How to apply
International applicants
We regret that this course is not available to international applicants who would require a Student Visa. If English is not your first language, you will need to demonstrate English language skills that are sufficiently developed for successful completion of your studies. We accept a range of recognised English language qualifications.
Entry requirements
An honours degree or Level 6 equivalent qualification is desirable. However, candidates without a degree or formal qualification are still encouraged to apply. For more information about entry requirements and Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL), speak to an advisor.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Additional fee information
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Provider information
DBS Institute, Plymouth
6 Elizabeth Court
Higher Lane
Plymouth
PL1 2AN