Competences developed in the course

Transversal Competences

CT4: Use information and communication technologies efficiently.

CT8: Develop ideas and arguments in a reasoned and critical manner.

CT10: Lead and manage working groups.

CT12: Adapt competitively to cultural, social, and artistic changes and advances in the professional field, selecting appropriate pathways for continuous training.

CT13: Seek excellence and quality in professional activity.

CT14: Master research methodology in the generation of viable projects, ideas, and solutions.

CT16: Use available means and resources responsibly with respect to cultural and environmental heritage.

General Competences

CG2: Demonstrate adequate skills for musical reading, improvisation, creation, and re‑creation.

CG5: Know the technological resources specific to the field of activity and their applications in music, preparing to assimilate new developments.

CG7: Demonstrate the ability to interact musically in different types of participatory musical projects.

CG18: Communicate in written and verbal form the content and objectives of professional activity to specialised audiences, using appropriate technical and general vocabulary.

CG21: Create and shape personal artistic concepts, having developed the ability to express oneself through assimilated techniques and resources.

CG24: Develop capacities for self‑training throughout professional life.

CG25: Know and be able to use study and research methodologies that enable continuous development and innovation in musical activity throughout one’s career.

Specific Competences

SO3: Apply technologies to musical creation, performance, and public dissemination, and use technical resources that enable sound production and organisation.

SO5: Know and critically assess recent trends and developments in music technology, evaluating their implications for creation, performance, dissemination, and reception, and design/program applications for real‑time or deferred composition and performance.

SO6: Know musical instruments from Western and other cultures, their physical, acoustic, and musical characteristics, timbral possibilities, and promote their expansion through technological resources or design virtual instruments.

SO7: Know techniques and procedures for creation and support of musical, sonic, and audiovisual creative processes.

SO8: Plan sound‑production processes and generate/transform sounds and recordings according to creative objectives defined by a production plan.

SO9: Use tools and devices to support or complement processes of sound capture, recording, creation, manipulation, and dissemination.

SO10: Integrate art, technology, and science with sufficient flexibility to adapt to multiple and changing environments.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Integrate into team‑based in‑depth work on topics related to the speciality.
2. Identify themes and lines of work that may guide the final project and potential postgraduate research.
3. Broaden understanding of the field and learn to value cooperative, creative, and interdisciplinary models of idea exchange.
4. Relate transversal knowledge between theory and practice across disciplines connected to sound.

Contents

All content potentially linked to the disciplines of Sonology.

Teaching methodology

Group‑work sessions and student presentations.

Assessment systems

Continuous assessment based on diagnostic evaluation and formalised through summative evaluation leading to the final grade. Assessment is carried out through participation and class work, presentations, assignments and/or readings outside class, submission of written work, or written/oral tests.