Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
Analyse and reflect on the academic debates inherent to the discipline of music studies, including sub-disciplines of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, music technology, and music composition, and critically consider musical practices in African and other world societies.
Analyse and reflect on the relationship between music and the community, or the public, and music as an expression of socio-political ideologies.
Analyse and reflect on the concepts and history of patronage in music.
Analyse, interpret, and reflect on categorisations in and definitions of various musical styles and genres.
Contextualise and evaluate the role and contribution of the discipline of Music Studies in broader socio-economic and cultural perspective.
Assess the knowledge, skills and competencies gained and relate these to various other contexts, disciplines and vocational possibilities.
Show potential to make a contribution to the present situation and future development of the discipline of Music Studies, and to the practice of music in local and global contexts.
Interact critically with musical texts in written and audio-visual form.
Analyse and interpret selected works of Western art music, jazz and popular music, and African music.
Compare and contrast the repertoires and techniques of popular music and jazz, Western art music, and African music.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:
Deal with conceptualisation in subject matter, methodology, strategy and compositional techniques and materials.
Use research methodologies for oral and literate sources and think reflexively about their application to past and contemporary practices in Africa and across the world.
Use research paradigms to generate ideas and concepts applicable to the music studied.
Analyse and interpret the conceptual underpinning of cultural production in general and music in particular using discipline-specific rubrics from historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, and music cognition.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:
Analyse and interpret musical texts and works in the context of contemporary discipline-specific approaches, and write about them.
Select and use suitable critical and music theoretical methodologies in the analysis and interpretation of music.
Select and use suitable critical methodologies in the composition of musical works.
Identify and describe problems in relevant fields and individual disciplines and develop solutions appropriate to various music contexts.
Formulate appropriate responses to resolve concrete and abstract, practical and theoretical problems in music.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:
Interpret and provide detailed explanations for a range of African and world music phenomena in their specific cultural contexts, and situate these within global music discourses.
Identify and describe specific African musical practices both regionally and stylistically using advanced music analytical tools.
Think innovatively and independently and bring fresh and new insights to known views, topics or areas of interest apart from those included in the course materials.
Distinguish between and reason critically about, the contexts for precolonial, colonial, and post-colonial African music.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:
Interact with visual, verbal and oral texts through critical viewing, listening, reading and inferencing skills.
Produce critical texts and musical works which integrate cultural elements/information from different sources.
Use musical compositions and essays effectively to convey ideas and insights intelligibly and achieve own purposes.
Produce and interpret creative work in a variety of media as well as of an interdisciplinary and technological nature.
Demonstrate the ability to distance herself/himself from cultural texts from different sources and be able to reflect on the visual arts and take a critical position.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 6:
Create job opportunities through the development of creative and generative thinking, as well as through the understanding of the local and international music markets.
Create self-employment as a professional musician.
Create self-employment in a variety of music related fields, and therefore demonstrate entrepreneurial skills.
Succeed in multiple fields of the music industry that require business management and entrepreneurial skills.
Formulate a feasible business plan for the music industry in South Africa and globally.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 7:
Compose musical works in a range of styles from the eighteenth century to the present.
Compose musical works using African compositional resources.
Compose and plan passages of musical works using advanced techniques of harmony and species counterpoint, including fugue.
Compose electronic and commercial music in digital forms using the appropriate software.
Edit, produce, and master digital music using the appropriate software.
Compose music for film and television.
Integrated Assessment:
Formative Assessment:
There is continuous assessment involving the following:
Completion of practical and theoretical assignments and projects at home.
Practical and theoretical assignments contain self-evaluation exercises and tasks.
Learners report back in written form on practical assignments and on online forums on the myUnisa learning system.
Feedback is provided through feedback tutorial letters issued after each assignment has been marked by the relevant assessor.
Assessor will provide additional examination information, including advising on preparing for the examination, in tutorial letters.
Summative Assessment:
Practical and theoretical examinations to be assessed by a panel of internal and external lecturers.
Submission of a portfolio of practical year work to be assessed by a panel of internal and external lecturers.
Testing of the formative stage of learning on how to compile, arrange and present an exhibition of cultural objects to be assessed by a panel of internal and external lecturers. |
