<ul><li>Contemporary Applied Art encourages fresh ideas, inventive use of materials and techniques, and offers students the opportunity to critically engage with current practice </li><li>The course combines studio projects with practical workshop-based sessions, alongside contextual academic studies where ideas, historical reference, and making are integrated </li><li>This is an innovative interdisciplinary program with an emphasis on three main material areas, Ceramics, Glass, and Textiles, either as a chosen specialism or in combination. It offers students the opportunity to creatively develop and make objects </li><li>The emphasis is on an open and experimental exploration grounded in historical context and current critical debate about contemporary practice. This course offers a creative and playful approach to materials and idea development with a strong emphasis on practical skills, conceptual development and self-directed exploration </li><li>The delivery of this course is modular and centred on ‘thinking through making’ including skills development workshops, lectures, group seminars, tutorials, peer and independent learning </li></ul>

<ul><li>The Creative Digital Media course (previously titled Multimedia) provides students with the design, technical, and programming skills to create interactive digital media products
 </li><li>By combining media, content, and interactivity, those interested in creative digital media can take on and work with a variety of media forms to get their content to communicate across a variety of platforms and in some cases perform interactive experiences
 </li><li>Students will be introduced to the most up-to-date design and media industry software and hardware. The course will also support the development of contemporary critical awareness to assist them in their academic studies
 </li><li>Students will be given the opportunity to develop their presentation skills and learn to create innovative creative digital media projects. They will produce projects in digital media design, video production, music technology, computer programming, digital marketing, media business, animation, virtual reality, user experience (UX), user interface design (UI), digital culture and much more
 </li><li>The work placement will run for a period of no less than 13 weeks, ideally commencing at the start of the second semester of Year 3. The placement program will familiarise the student with work practices and procedures in a professional multimedia and/or design environment
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<ul><li>The nature of the Home Economics program is diverse and requires graduates to gain competencies in a multidisciplinary context. This means graduates will gain expertise and develop skills in culinary arts, biological sciences, textiles and design, consumer studies, family resource management, social studies, architecture, and environmental studies
 </li><li>Through the study of Business, graduates will gain insight and develop skills in management,&nbsp;accounting, economics, human resource management, international business, entrepreneurship, and legal studies
 </li><li>The design of the program means the knowledge and skills gained by graduates will encompass discipline knowledge and skills in Home Economics and Business, along with an introduction into education studies
 </li><li>Graduates from the BA (Hons) in Home Economics &amp; Business who go on to complete the Professional Master of Education will complete their studies as teaching professionals, critical thinkers and innovators, with a broad worldview
 </li><li>The module Preliminary School Placement in Home Economics introduces students to the actual teaching of Home Economics in schools through a supported school classroom placement working with an experienced Home Economics teacher
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<ul><li>Musical Theatre is the theatrical genre where song and music is an integral part of the content, along with drama and, usually, dance. Performers are skilled in all three and must possess a quantum of individual talent
 </li><li>The course combines personal skills training with group and teamwork, expressed through annual public performances in professional theatres
 </li><li>As well as working with highly qualified core staff, the students will meet professionals from all musical theatre fields, following up-to-the-minute trends and making contacts and networks for life
 </li><li>In addition to the final year musical production, each student can elect to do a solo performance module for double credit, expressing a particular talent and level of skill in a core subject
 </li><li>In their third year, each student spends 100 hours working in an appropriate theatrical environment to get a taste of the specific work context they will be entering
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<ul><li>Popular Music is the music heard around the clock on radio, TV, in theatres, clubs, and venues all around the country. We use it to encompass all of the sub-genres of popular music: rock, country, soul, blues, commercial, modern musical theatre, electronic music, dance music, etc. </li><li>This program of study offers five streams of study: Electric Bass Guitar, Drums, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, or Voice </li><li>Each student is assigned a matched group of peers to form a small popular ensemble. This becomes the centre of the learning experience. Lectures, classes, and music technology labs provide supporting skills to the core training in performance </li><li>BAPM students will have the opportunity to devise and develop personal live and recorded music projects. Along with their BMus counterparts, BAPM students will be introduced to Community Music and Music Therapy as potential pathways </li><li>Students will also have access to specialist modules embracing arts marketing, professional promotion, and business for artist practitioners and career development </li></ul>

<ul><li>This Honours Degree course centres on theatre performance training, with supporting modules to facilitate wider career options. The course aims to produce artists who are physically and vocally flexible and intellectually alive and curious </li><li>Alongside core disciplines of voice, movement and acting studies, students will develop a range of creative and practical techniques and transferable skills that will encourage them to be an independent thinking and motivated artist and an articulate and reflective practitioner equipped to succeed in a competitive profession </li><li>Small group and large ensemble practical and workshop sessions are balanced with lectures, tutorials and field-based studies </li><li>In the second semester of Year 3, each student will have a supervised work placement in an appropriate professional environment. The work placement is done as a complete module with 84 hours work contact to be done in a minimum of eight weeks </li><li>In the fourth and final year, each student works on an integrated production. As the emphasis throughout the course is on performance, this allows an involvement at a professional level as a theatre practitioner, representing the culmination of the students’ four years of learning </li></ul>

<ul><li>Visual Communications is a graphic design course that focuses on creative design for the printed and electronic media
 </li><li>From pitching a design brief to a client, to producing graphics, a new brand, layout for an interface, or illustration for a book, students will go on a journey to understand who they are as a designer through this program
 </li><li>Students will be introduced to the most up-to-date design and media industry software and hardware 
 </li><li>The course will also support the development of critical awareness to assist students in their academic studies. They will be given the opportunity to develop their presentation skills and learn to create innovative approaches to solve design problems
 </li><li>Students will produce artwork for print, interface design, motion graphics, illustration, photography, typography, packaging, branding, advertising campaigns and much more
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<ul><li>The course differs fundamentally from those available elsewhere in the country in a number of ways. In particular, Performance Studies are an integrated feature throughout the course and students receive credit for them proportional to their level of ability and specialisation </li><li>One of the attractions of this Honours Degree course is the nature of Years 1 and 2, which are best described respectively as “Foundation” and “Transition”. The carefully coordinated elements of the Year 1 course seeks to ensure that every student is subsequently able to fulfil their potential, whatever specialisations are chosen </li><li>During Year 2, the continuation of core studies is balanced by the introduction of elements that ensure students can make an informed decision about which subjects they would like to concentrate on during the third and fourth years </li><li>There are three mandatory skill-based modules that are taken in each Semester. The remaining electives may be selected from a wide choice of modules: Community Music, Composition, Conducting, Counterpoint, Education, History, Music Technology, Music&nbsp;Therapy, Orchestration, Performance, and Research </li><li>Potential professional performers can study with people who have played in and/or conducted professional orchestras, choirs and bands, are (or have been) members of professional chamber ensembles, and perform regularly as soloists </li></ul>

Munster Technological University

All Courses

BA (Honours) in Contemporary Applied Art (Ceramics, Glass, Textiles)

BA (Honours) in Creative Digital Media

BA (Honours) in Home Economics & Business

BA (Honours) in Musical Theatre

BA (Honours) in Popular Music

BA (Honours) in Theatre & Drama Studies

BA (Honours) in Visual Communications

Bachelor of Music (Honours)