BA (Hons) Popular Music at Canterbury Christ Church University

Explore your own creativity and musical identity with a Popular Music degree at Canterbury Christ Church University. With a BA in Popular Music from CCCU, you’ll develop strong skills in performance, instrumental technique, song writing, and composition, as well as having the opportunity to perform, record, produce, and compose your own music. You'll benefit from one-to-one tuition and learn more about performing on stage, screen, and in the recording studio.

Faculty: School of Sciences, Psychology, Arts and Humanities, Computing, Engineering, and Sport  |  Department: Music and Performing Arts  |  Duration: 3 years (Full-time)  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: September 2026, September 2027  |  Location: Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Develop your performance and instrumental technique across live and studio settings. Study in our purpose-built creative arts building, that's home to the latest recording facilities. Core modules include Year 1: Popular Music Making, Performance Skills, Songwriting, Composition & Culture, Band Performance, Success Modules; Year 2: Performance and Content Creation, Performance for Stage, Composing for the Creative Arts, Employability modules, Interdisciplinary modules; Year 3: Performance, Recording and Improvisation, Composing for Industry Briefs, Performance Project, Creative Arts and Industries Project.

Career pathways

The Popular Music course aims to prepare you as a creative practitioner in performance, production or commercial composition (as a songwriter, or for media, for instance). Music graduates have, for example, gone on to work as performers, producers, DJs, songwriters, web designers, live sound engineers, video games and media composers and freelance instrumental and vocal tutors.

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