BA Music with Spanish

The BA in Music with Political Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, is a dual honors degree offering a practical and theoretical study of music, contrasting it with the exploration of politics and international relations. This three-year course combines intensive training in musicianship, complemented with a broad choice of performance, composition, and academic options, together with the study of political systems, political behavior, and international relations.Course Content: The course is composed of 50% Music and 50% Political Studies. For Music, students will take courses like Performance, Composition, and Digital technologies & aesthetics. For Political studies, modules include Comparative political institutions, Global governance, and Foreign policies of emerging powers.Key Modules: Key modules for the music component include Practical Study II for composers/performers, and Techniques of musical analysis. For Political Studies, International Security, and Comparative European Politics are among the principal modules.Future Careers: This course can lead to a wide range of career avenues. Some of the students have gone on to be professional musicians, composers, music teachers, music therapists, arrangers, broadcasters, and more. A sizeable proportion leave to further academic study, often on our own MA programs. The political studies part of the degree also prepares students for careers in international organizations, government, non-governmental organizations, journalism, and the media.For more information on this course, please visit the official course page.