Arts & Humanities
Architecture (BEDS)
Dalhousie University, Canada
- Degree
- Bachelor's
- Next intake
- September
Arts & Humanities
Investigate music’s role and meaning in society. Earning your MA in Musicology gives you the opportunity to investigate music’s role and meaning in various social and historical contexts, through text-based analysis informed by cultural studies.
Faculty: Arts and Social Sciences | Department: Fountain School of Performing Arts | Duration: 16 months or longer | Study mode: full-time | Intake: September | Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
A master's in musicology offers pathways into academia, research, arts administration, cultural heritage preservation, and media, providing expertise in music history, theory, criticism, and cultural contexts.
Admission to the program is granted to applicants with a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, and who demonstrate an outstanding capacity for research in music. Candidates must satisfy the general requirements for admission to the Faculty of Graduate Studies. applicants may be required to take a music theory or music history entrance exam, depending on the candidate's background (the expected theory and history background includes the standard courses in a Bachelor of Music program: two years of harmony, keyboard skills, aural skills and music history; counterpoint; and form and analysis); applicants must demonstrate facility in one foreign language, normally but not necessarily German or French. This can be satisfied with the completion of an intermediate level university language course.
Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the courses you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.
Graduate intakes: September, January and May.
General Faculty of Graduate Studies deadlines: September admission June 1 (Canadian applicants) and April 1 (non-Canadian); January admission October 31 (Canadian) and August 31 (non-Canadian); May admission February 28 (Canadian) and December 31 (non-Canadian). Program deadlines may differ. The application fee is $115, payable online with the application.
Apply through the official page: https://apply.dal.ca/apply/
Arts & Humanities
Dalhousie University, Canada
Arts & Humanities
Dalhousie University, Canada
Arts & Humanities
Dalhousie University, Canada
Arts & Humanities
Dalhousie University, Canada
Arts & Humanities
Dalhousie University, Canada
Arts & Humanities
Dalhousie University, Canada
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