Postgraduate Programmes
MA in Music, Sound, Culture and Media
Bringing together expertise in Music and Communications across two Schools in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the MA in Music, Sound, Culture & Media is an interdisciplinary programme, which includes creative and collaborative components and offers hybrid delivery for international and Ireland-based students. This programme is also the first masters that introduces sound studies within an Irish and International context.
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MA in Creative Music Performance
Designed for accomplished performers ready to push their creativity further, the MA in Creative Music Performance at DCU is a one-year programme that brings together musicians from classical, jazz, rock and traditional backgrounds. Through collaboration, research and performance, students refine their craft while developing a distinctive artistic voice for today’s diverse musical world and tomorrow’s creative industries.
Students will deepen their technical skills, collaborate with other creative performers from different backgrounds and have opportunities to showcase their work. With musicians from classical, jazz, rock and traditional Irish music backgrounds learning together, the course offers a unique cross-genre environment where collaboration and creative experimentation are central.
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The MA in Theology and World Religions is a programme that approaches theology as a critical, academic study of religion and introduces students to a comprehensive examination of the world’s major traditions.
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On the MA in Choral Studies, students will acquire advanced skills in conducting, composing and ensemble singing while also understanding the relationship between cultural policy, public bodies and enterprise in the arts.
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MA in Ethics
What does it mean to live ethically in a world transformed by artificial intelligence, ecological crisis, and globalised markets? Such questions are no longer the preserve of philosophers alone. They arise in boardrooms, in legislative chambers, in the design of algorithms, and in the everyday choices that shape our collective future.
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