Electronic Engineering and Music BSc (Joint Hons) at Bangor University

Students on this joint honours degree will spend half their time studying electronic engineering and half their time studying music. Electronic Engineering students will focus on aspects of electrical technology applicable in electronic music production including mathematics, circuit theory and design, programming languages and principles. Music students can choose from a wide range of modules, including, but not restricted to studies of media and popular music culture, recording and production techniques, the recording industry and undertaking creative music projects.

• You will study the parts of Electronic Engineering that are most relevant to the music and media industry. How sound and visual arts are recorded, transmitted and played.
• £2M investment in laboratory and teaching. We have a brand new teaching laboratory equipped with industry standard hardware.
• The School covers a breadth of musical, intellectual and creative activity including musicology composition and performance. From Stravinsky to the Sex Pistols and beyond.
• We use VHDL hardware description language as well as C, JAVA and MATLAB.
• Integrated circuit design for analogue and digital electronics.
• 99% graduate employment.
• Employers value those who are able to work as part of a team. We therefore have a strong emphasis on team projects.
• We also focus on design in order to bring together different aspects of learning as well as professional behaviour, ethics and standards as well as project management.
• Undergraduate students use and work in a clean room and have full training in clean room protocol.

Why choose Bangor University for this course?

• All our Undergraduate students are involved in real research projects during their studies.

• Music at Bangor has a concert series and runs festivals throughout the year these include student ensembles such as The University Symphony orchestra and resident professional ensembles. Study at an old university with a long and distinguished history of excellence in science.
• Small class sizes of between 25 to 50 students. This means you will be taught as an individual. The school of music also offers one to one tuition for performance students.
• We assign every student with a personal tutor to provide support you throughout your studies on both an academic and pastoral level. Pastoral care is very important at Bangor.
• We are ranked in the top 10 UK universities for student satisfaction and are rated top in Wales for academic support. (National Student Satisfaction Survey 2018)

Careers

This joint honours course is designed to prepare you for a career in the delivery of sound and vision. This course sits at the interface of creativity and technology. Past students have set up their own recording studios, become professional performers and also gone onto postgraduate study and teaching.