Module Details

The information contained in this module specification was correct at the time of publication but may be subject to change, either during the session because of unforeseen circumstances, or following review of the module at the end of the session. Queries about the module should be directed to the member of staff with responsibility for the module.
Title WORKING AT THE PHILHARMONIC
Code MUSI542
Coordinator Dr ML Jones
Music
Eben@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2020-21 Level 7 FHEQ Second Semester 30

Aims

The overarching aim of the module is to enhance the employability of students. Employability will be enhanced in a range of ways but all of these will devolve onto the level of professionalism exhibited by individual students. To be allowed to participate fully in a range of managerial specialisms is an opportunity afforded to very few, it is the students' individual responsibility to maximise this opportunity.


Learning Outcomes

(LO1) The student will be conversant with the day-to-day routines of management across a range of specialisms.

(LO2) The student will be aware of their own self-development within the context of a work-place.

(LO3) The student will be able to analyse and itemise the 'working parts' of a complex music organisation and will be able to discuss the challenges associated with this complexity that management must address and resolve.

(LO4) The employability of the student will be enhanced through a combination of attention to task, refexivity in regard to the performance of tasks, reporting analytically on their performance but also on the role they have shadowed in a complex organisation.

(S1) Business and customer awareness basic understanding of the key drivers for business success – including the importance of innovation and taking calculated risks – and the need to provide customer satisfaction and build customer loyalty.

(S2) Career and identity management online managing digital reputation and online identity.

(S3) Communication, listening and questioning respecting others, contributing to discussions, communicating in a foreign language, influencing, presentations.

(S4) Information technology (application of) adopting, adapting and using digital devices, applications and services.

(S5) Information literacy online, finding, interpreting, evaluating, managing and sharing information.

(S6) Literacy application of literacy, ability to produce clear, structured written work and oral literacy - including listening and questioning.

(S7) Media literacy online critically reading and creatively producing academic and professional communications in a range of media.

(S8) Numeracy (application of) manipulation of numbers, general mathematical awareness and its application in practical contexts (e.g. measuring, weighing, estimating and applying formulae).

(S9) Positive attitude/ self-confidence A 'can-do' approach, a readiness to take part and contribute; openness to new ideas and the drive to make these happen.

(S10) Problem solving/ critical thinking/ creativity analysing facts and situations and applying creative thinking to develop appropriate solutions.

(S11) Research management developing a research strategy, project planning and delivery, risk management, formulating questions, selecting literature, using primary/secondary/diverse sources, collecting & using data, applying research methods, applying ethics.

(S12) Self-management readiness to accept responsibility (ie leadership), flexibility, resilience, self-starting, initiative, integrity, willingness to take risks, appropriate assertiveness, time management, readiness to improve own performance based on feedback/reflective learning.

(S13) Team (group) working respecting others, co-operating, negotiating / persuading, awareness of interdependence with others.


Syllabus

 

As this is a work placement module, the syllabus is, essentially, what is learned through the experience of shadowing managers at the Philharmonic. In this way, it will build on the first semester module that involves a series of guest appearances by Philharmonic managers - MUSI541 - Managing Classical Music.


Teaching and Learning Strategies

Teaching Method 1 - Internships
Description: Each student will enjoy a substantial internship at the Liverpool Philharmonic.
Attendance Recorded: Yes
Notes: Each student will be allocated an academic supervisor and it is the role of the supervisor to advise the student with regard to the maintenance of their journal, the collection of relevant materials, and reflection on the experience, in general.
Unscheduled Directed Student Hours (time spent away from the timetabled sessions but directed by the teaching staff): 4


Teaching Schedule

  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours         52

  52
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 248
TOTAL HOURS 300

Assessment

EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)
% of
final
mark
Resit/resubmission
opportunity
Penalty for late
submission
Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)
% of
final
mark
Resit/resubmission
opportunity
Penalty for late
submission
Notes
Presentation The presentation takes place in front of all other students together with the module leader, module moderator and invited guests. There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty ap  10 minutes    20       
Portfolio There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is not an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When): Second Semester Assessment period  2, 500    30       
Report There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is not an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When): Second Semester Assessment period  5,000 words    50       

Recommended Texts

Reading lists are managed at readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk. Click here to access the reading lists for this module.