Description
This paper discusses the centrality of audiovisual media to both teaching and assessment in music courses at the University of Huddersfield. Music and Music Technology at Huddersfield is home to around 350 undergraduate students from a wide variety of educational, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds, and offers eight undergraduate music-related courses ranging from traditional BMus courses through to BA and BSc degrees that become increasingly technically focused. These include a specific degree pathway in Music and Sound for Screen, but students on all courses engage with and benefit from a joined-up approach to audiovisual media as part of curriculum design, pedagogical strategy, and assessment methodology.We will present short examples from the perspective of educators with different curriculum specialties, demonstrating a scaffolded approach to audiovisual media in teaching and assessment design across a range of creative, technical, and research-based modules in Huddersfield’s undergraduate curriculum. These (related) case studies focus on:
- Integrated curriculum design, building in audiovisual tools as both creative practice and as research method from Level 4 upwards;
- The video essay as pedagogical tool and assessment format for analytical and musicological research, with a focus on digital literacy;
- Authentic audiovisual assessment briefs as an aspect of compositional teaching, equipping students with portfolio materials that can be pitched for industrial publication.
Rather than discussing the common use of audiovisual materials as examples in the teaching of music and screen media, we will focus primarily on their use in knowledge acquisition, creative exploration, and research presentation. Audiovisual media is key to our design of curricula and assessments which are integrated and authentic – not only to the varied and evolving learning styles and go-to resources of our students, but also to the skills and digital literacies required of them as graduates.
| Period | 3 Sep 2025 |
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| Event title | Screen Music Pedagogies: Study Day |
| Event type | Workshop |
| Location | Leeds, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |