General provisions

The Department of Musicology is responsible for this course. The course is a part of the Faculty of Arts' Master's Programme in Arts, with a focus on Musicology. The Syllabus was established by the department's board on 2009-11-17.

Entry requirements

A Bachelor's degree, equivalent to a Swedish Kandidatexamen, from an internationally recognised university. Proficiency in English equivalent to the general entry requirements for first-cycle (Bachelor's level) studies.

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of this course, the studen is expected to:

-show familiarity with academic writing within the field of Musicology, be able to independently formulate, delimit and carry out a research project that is relevant to the field, author an academic thesis, and defend this thesis in a public seminar.

-actively contribute with educated points of view to academic discussions, both verbally and in written form.

-present an overview of current knowledge, the state of research and their own work in the field, in both academic and non-academic contexts.

-independently identify musicological aspects of societal and cultural phenomena.

-show a depth of insight into the possibilities and limits of academic research.

-show the ability to, within the course and when otherwise relevant, make evaluations/criticisms/judgements/assessments based on equality and equal opportunity, as well as make aware and problematise ecological, economic, and socially sustainable development.

Content

This course comprises 45 ECTS and is equivalent to the production of a Master's thesis. The academic thesis should demonstrate the student's ability to independently address an issue within the field of musicology. To achieve a passing result the thesis should be at least 120 000 characters long (including spaces and footnotes), but no longer than 240 000 characters (including spaces and footnotes).

Instruction

Instruction takes the form of advising and obligatory seminars. Instruction will primarly consist of attendance at graduate student seminars and thesis advising.

Active participation at the seminars is obligatory, as is the student's participation as an opponent for at least one thesis defence.

Advising will take place individually and in a group. Since the purpose of the course is to enable the completion of a high quality academic work, emphasis will be placed throughout on the development of the ability to convert theoretical knowledge into practical application.

Assessment

The thesis will be presented at a public defence in the graduate student seminar. To achieve a passing result the student must also actively attend and participate in the seminars, and act as an opponent for at least one thesis defence. To achieve a higher grade than Pass, the thesis must be turned in within a specified time period or deadline

The thesis may be written in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, French and English.

Students whose theses have not been given a passing grade will be given the opportunity to resubmit for examination if the revisions that have been suggested by the examiner have been implemented by the student. Students who have received a failing grade twice have the right to a new examiner. In such cases, the request to change examiner must be submitted to the department in writing.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.

Other regulations

The person in charge of the course and the headmaster of Master's studies are responsible for ensuring students' opinions and evaluations of the course are collected at the end of the course, and that the results of the evaluations are taken into account for future iterations of the course.