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Second Year
Second Year Music
Welcome to 2nd Year Music 2024-2025
General Information about 2BMU Music
The following sources of information are where you should go to find out more about 2BMU Music:
- The 2BMU Music Handbook Music Handbook 2024-25
- The College of Arts Student Information 2024-25
- Canvas - the online platform for information on your modules, lecture schedules, assessment information and submission dropboxes, etc. Canvas
- Discipline of Music Office: Administrator: Irene O'Malley, Room 311, 1st Floor, Tower 1. Email: irene.omalley@universityofgalway.ie
- Programme Director: If you have module-related query, please contact your lecturer directly. For other pastoral related queries, please contact the 2nd Year Head of Music Dr Aidan Thomson (aidan.thomson@universityofgalway.ie).
Class Reps 2024-25
If you have concerns that you would like raised on behalf of your class, you can contact the 2nd Year Music class representative.
The 2BMU 2024-25 Class Representative: tba
Structure of 2BMU Music
Structure of 2BMU1 Music
In Semester 1, students take TWO CORE modules and ONE optional module
In Semester 2, students take TWO CORE modules and ONE optional module
Semester One Modules:
Semester One |
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Core Modules |
MU2100 Harmony and Keyboard Harmony (5 ECTS) |
MU2102 Introduction to Composition (5 ECTS) |
Optional Modules (Choose 1) |
MU2103 Music Practice 2 (5 ECTS) OR IS2105 Popular Music, Culture and Identities in Ireland (5 ECTS) |
Semester Two Modules:
Semester Two |
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Core Modules |
MU2107 Introduction to Sound Technology (5 ECTS) |
MU2108 Music History 2 (5 ECTS) |
Optional Modules (choose 1) |
MU2105 Musical Theatre (5 ECTS) OR MU2109 Irish Traditional Music Performance (5 ECTS) |
Timetable for 2BMU1 Music
Please see below Timetable for 2BMU 2024-25:
2nd Year Music Timetable 2024-25(2)
**MU2100 tutorials will be confirmed at the start of term and expected to start from Week 2. They will take place outside the main timetable above**
MU2102 Tutorials will be confirmed with the lecturer at the start of term and expected to start from Week 2. They will take place outside the main timetable above
***All lectures for 2nd Year Music, Semester 1 will begin on Monday, 9th September 2024***
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Please refer to 2nd Arts Timetables for all other subjects
Please remember that 2nd Year Music students remain in Group 3 for Arts
Registration Information 2024-25
- Online Registration for returning 2nd Year Undergraduate students opens on Monday, 19th August 2024 and will close on 20th September.
- The Registration process is administered by the Registration Office, not by the Discipline of Music. Should you have any difficulties, please contact registration@universityofgalway.ie in the first instance.
- It is VERY IMPORTANT to click on CONFIRM SELECTION and FINISH at the very end of the registration process in order to lock in all the modules for which you wish to register
- Further information on Registration can be found here
- You can log in to your student portal here to register Student Portal