This is the 4-year course which includes a Professional Placement Year. Commercial Music at Bath Spa University offers a vocational course for songwriters, producers and performers that will build your career through personal development and industry engagement. If you have a flair for original music ideas, our Commercial Music course can take you on a creative journey to inspire and define a lifelong career. This course is about creation: songs, projects, bands and entrepreneurial ideas. - We focus on original creativity. - We build careers through personal development and industry engagement. - Write original material alongside exploring identity, promotion and the wider business context of your music. - All our staff have music industry experience at a high level. **More about the Professional Placement Year** A Professional Placement Year (PPY), traditionally known as a sandwich year, is where a student undertakes a period of work with an external organisation for between 9-13 months. The placement occurs between the students' second and third years of undergraduate study. Students can engage in up to 3 placements to make up the total time and are required to source the placement(s) themselves with support from the Careers and Employability Team.

Year 1 focuses on songwriting, performance and production; this raw material will determine this structure of your second year. During the first year you will write songs songs, create journalistic and promotional material, and learn how to produce and develop your material in the recording studio. In Year 2 you’ll write, produce and record your own original material, explore practical and theoretical topics. You will also create an online presence for yourself, designing and editing your own promotional video, as well as other web and audio-visual content, using this for promotion where you’ll set up your own national tour. Your Final Year will see you specialise in production, songwriting or music business, whilst exploring an aspect of music culture for a final dissertation. You’ll also be given ‘seed funding’ to work with a team on a music related business project. Please refer to our website for more information.

There are no formal exams. You’ll be assessed through the production of your portfolio materials which will include: songs, live performances, audio productions, promotional material, website design, photographic output, video staging, video editing, critical thinking, tour management, written dissertations, business plans, business diagnostics, and presentations.

Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.

26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Course code: FTFB

Institution code: B20

Campus Name: Main Site

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The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

Year 2

Year 4

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.

Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course

Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.

Test	Grade	AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)	6.0	IELTS 6.0 - for visa nationals, with a minimum score of IELTS 5.5 in each element.

English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.

Student satisfaction : 68%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 74%

Go onto work and study: 84%

EU	9250.0	Year 1
England	9250.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
Scotland	9250.0	Year 1
Wales	9250.0	Year 1

Additional Fee Information are not listed for this Course.

Newton Park
Newton St Loe
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Bath
BA2 9BN