BA Music and Korean Studies
As part of Welcome Week, you will meet Dr Deokhyo Choi, Programme Lead for Korean Studies degree programmes. Deokhyo is an ethnic Korean-born in Japan and specializes in the history of modern Korea and Korea-Japan relations.
As Programme Lead, he is delighted to welcome you to Sheffield and to SEAS and is happy to answer your Welcome Week questions about your degree programme.
As a dual degree student you will also receive information and support from the Management School. Click here to access to the Department of Music's Freshers' Site.
The structure of your Degree
At university, we refer to students being in "levels" rather than "years". The structure of our four year degree programmes is:
Level 1 - in Sheffield
Level 2 - in Sheffield
Level 3 - Korea Year Abroad
Level 4/Final Year - in Sheffield
Understanding the jargon
Some of the most important things for you to understand are a few terms we use all the time:
Semester: a period of 15 weeks: 12 teaching weeks and 3 weeks for assessment. Each academic year is split into two semesters: Autumn and Spring. You can find your semester dates here https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/about/dates
Module: Your studies are made up of modules, and each module is worth a number of credits.
Credits: Modules will be 10 or 20 credits. For a full year, you will need to pick 120 credits in total.
Core module: this is a compulsory module for your programme. You don't need to pick these modules as part of the registration - they will already be on your student record.
Approved module: there will be a some flexibility in your programme which means that in addition to your core modules, you choose approved modules that you're interested in to make up to 120 credits per year.
Guided Module Choice: these modules have been selected as being complimentary to your main area of studies. These modules might be run by SEAS, or they may be run by a different department.
Degree programme: this is the title of your degree. Programme of study is another term we use.
Add/Drop: for the first 2 weeks of the semester you have the option to drop an optional module if you don't like it. You can then add another (as long as there is space on the module and we can make your timetable work).
Modules in Level 1
Each year you must take 120 credits, split across Autumn and Spring semesters. These credits can be balanced equally 60:60, but you can also choose to have a 70:50 or 50:70 split at times.
Your year abroad may be an exception to this, but don't worry, you will be given lots of information as Level 3 approaches.
Your marks for first year do not count to your degree, but you need to pass all your modules to move on to Level 2.
Semester 1
Core modules (required)
EAS1043 Korean Language 1a - 20 credits
EAS1044 Korean Language 1b - 10 credits
Semester 2
Core modules (required)
EAS1045 Korean Language 2a - 20 credits
EAS1046 Korean Language 2b - 10 credits
Plus between 40 and 60 credits from...
MUS125 Music in a Global Context (Autumn Semester) - 20 credits
MUS126 History of Western Music (Autumn Semester) - 20 credits
MUS129 Music Psychology (Autumn Semester) - 10 credits
MUS132 Technologies for Music (Autumn Semester) - 10 credits
MUS133 Tonal Music Analysis and Criticism (Autumn Semester) - 0 credits
MUS117 Popular Music Studies (Spring Semester) - 10 credits
MUS131 Composing Electronic Music (Spring Semester) - 10 credits
MUS134 Exploring Tonal Sounds (Spring Semester) - 10 credits
MUS140- Folk Music Preparation (Spring Semester) - 10 credits
MUS127 Composition (Academic Year) - 20 credits
MUS128- Performance (Academic Year) - 20 credits
Any remaining credits to be used on...
Guided Module Choice (a selection of Music modules or selected module from other departments) or Languages for All modules
Beyond Level 1