Program Overview

Rap & MC – The UK’s first of a kind Hip-Hop degree.

Hip-Hop is an incredible cultural phenomenon, blending sub genres such as Grime, Drill, UK Garage and Drum and Bass.

You will discover the history and evolution of both UK and US Hip-Hop, exploring the specific techniques used within different sub-genres.

Submerge yourself in your practical work, supported by our expert industry professional Tutors. You will learn to improve and adapt your personal style in areas such as flow, content, narrative, and delivery.

Collaborate and experiment with your skills alongside your peers from within the Rap & MC Pathway and the wider student body. Working within studio environments, MIT spaces and live venues both internal and external to campus.

You will lay the foundations to improve not only your practical skills but also learn how to monetise your work. Through entrepreneurial skills and music industry knowledge such as publishing and copyright, you will be able to enter the industry with a wide range of transferable skills.

Modules & Skills Units

Level 4

• Preparing for Collaborative Work
• The impact and influence of music: from creator to consumer
• Music, society, and Culture: Perspectives and Debates
• Engaging in Collaborative Work
• Pen Game & Delivery: Honing Your Craft
• Mind Your Business
• Music & the Creative Industries
• Music, Media and Technology

Level 5

• Specialist Route Skills
• Professional Collaborative Work
• Professional Route Skills
• DJ & Remixing
• Be Your Own Boss
• Musical Directing and Studio Craft
• Live Event Management
• Copyright, Royalties, Publishing and Income Streams
• Specialist Collaborative Work

Level 6

• Leadership and CPD
• Critical Review
• Leading Professional Collaborative Project
• Independent Portfolio
• Media Engagement & Promotion / Campaign Managment
• Performance and Technology
• Music Business & DIY Artistry
• Critical Reflection & Creative Identity

Level 7

• Professional Practice Frameworks
• Applied Research (Focus and Impact on Creative Industries Futures)
• Ideas into Action
• Making Connections and Building a Community

Course Details

Award

BA / BSc (Hons) Creative Industries FuturesMCCI Creative Industries Futures

Awarding Body

Middlesex University

Modes of Study

• Full time
• Accelerated

Duration

• Degree: 2 Year accelerated delivery, 3 Year accelerated delivery including Foundation Year, 3 Year traditional delivery
• Integrated Masters: 3 Year accelerated delivery including postgraduate year

FHEQ Credits

• Degree: 360
• Integrated Masters: 540

UCAS Institution Code

Institution A48

Entry Requirements

• All candidates will be required to attend an audition / interview.
• View audition guide
• All candidates will be required to attend an audition / interview.

2 Year Degree

• All candidates should hold at least 2 A-Levels (or an equivalent Level 3 qualification), possessing a minimum of 104 UCAS points.
• We normally require Grade C/4 GCSE (or an equivalent qualification) in English.
• Candidates should be capable of using the English language fluently, and able to structure arguments and present evidence to a standard appropriate to study at Level ‘4’.
• Where the application materials appear insufficient to form a clear judgement on the candidate’s fluency, additional documentary evidence (e.g. recent essays) will be called for.
• Applicants for whom English is a second language are required to have achieved IELTS level 6.0 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each component) or equivalent qualification.

Foundation Level 0

• All candidates should hold at least a Grade C/4 in English GCSE.
• Candidates should be capable of using the English language fluently, and able to structure arguments and present evidence to a standard appropriate to study at Level ‘0’.
• Where the application materials appear insufficient to form a clear judgement on the candidate’s fluency, additional documentary evidence (e.g. recent essays) will be called for.
• Applicants for whom English is a second language are required to have achieved IELTS level 6.0 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each component) or equivalent qualification.

Masters Level

• All applicants will undertake an audition that will assess their suitability for the programme based on their subject and academic ability.

Faculty & Visiting Professionals

• Chas WISDM
• Karl Gordon
• AC

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