Bachelor's Programme Musicology
Graduates of the Bachelor's degree programme in Musicology have a broad and integrated knowledge of music in its contexts, including the scholarly foundations and subject-specific methods, as well as the latest specialist knowledge. They have advanced skills for dealing with complex problems and for determining and verbalising musical facts.
The degree programme is assigned to the group of Humanities and the Study of Culture (Faculty of Philosophy and History).
Degree: BA (Bachelor of Arts)
Duration/ECTS-AP: 6 semesters/180 ECTS-AP
Type of study: Full-time
Prerequisite: Matura or equivalent qualification and proof of language proficiency
Compulsory modules: Introduction to Musicology (introductory phase); Composition and Music Analysis; Music History: Antiquity and the Middle Ages; Music History: 15th, 16th and 17th centuries; Music History: 18th and 19th centuries; Music History: 20th and 21st centuries; Ethnomusicology; Popular Music and Jazz; Music and Media; Musicology Seminars
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Graduates are able to reflect on their own culturally influenced personal approach, which is a prerequisite for the critical categorisation of music and statements about music. By examining music from different epochs, cultures and social groups, the degree programme promotes an understanding of the role of music in historical, social, economic and cultural-political processes.
Additional examination in Latin: The additional examination in Latin must be completed by the end of the Bachelor's degree programme if this subject has not been successfully completed at a secondary school for at least 10 hours per week. Please note that this additional examination may not be the last examination of the degree programme.
Deadlines for academic theses: Proseminar and seminar papers must be submitted by 15 March or 15 October at the latest, Bachelor's theses by 30 April or 30 November at the latest.
Study code: UC 033 636