{"id":19,"date":"2008-08-04T14:09:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T14:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd.caad.ed.ac.uk\/handbook\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2021-09-16T12:58:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T11:58:34","slug":"httpwww-eca-ed-ac-ukreid-school-of-musicpostgraduatetaught-degreesdigital-composition-and-performance-msc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/httpwww-eca-ed-ac-ukreid-school-of-musicpostgraduatetaught-degreesdigital-composition-and-performance-msc\/","title":{"rendered":"University Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MSc in Sound Design is organised and run within the\u00a0<strong>Reid School of Music<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eca.ed.ac.uk\/reid-school-of-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.eca.ed.ac.uk\/reid-school-of-music<\/a>) and is very closely associated with activities in the subject area of postgraduate degrees in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/studying\/postgraduate\/degrees\/index.php?r=site\/view&amp;edition=2021&amp;id=37\">Design and Digital Media<\/a> and <a title=\"Acoustics and Music Technology\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eca.ed.ac.uk\/reid-school-of-music\/postgraduate\/taught-degrees\/acoustics-and-music-technology-msc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Acoustics and Music Technology.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ECA includes also the subjects areas of Art, Design, ESALA and History of Art. In the University structure, ECA is\u00a0 a School within the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hss.ed.ac.uk\">College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Complexity and terminology<\/h3>\n<p>The University of Edinburgh is a large institution with a complex structure. It can be helpful to understand where the Sound Design programme sits within this, as you will almost certainly interact with a range of different levels of the university organisation during your time on the programme.<\/p>\n<p>The University is divided in to three academic <em>colleges<\/em>, which are in turn divided in to twenty <em>schools<\/em> that house a range of <em>subject areas<\/em> (departments). Alongside this academic structure are various support groups, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/information-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Information Services<\/a> (computing and libraries, among other things), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accom.ed.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Accommodation Services<\/a>, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>Sound Design is situated in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eca.ed.ac.uk\/reid-school-of-music\">Reid School of Music<\/a>, which is part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eca.ed.ac.uk\/\">Edinburgh College of Art<\/a>, and ECA is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/humanities-soc-sci\/humanities-soc-sci\">College of Humanities and Social Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Confusion can arise because ECA, despite having the word \u2018college\u2019 in its name, is actually a \u2018school\u2019 in terms of university organisation, and the Reid School of Music is actually a <strong><em>Subject Area.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MSc in Sound Design is organised and run within the\u00a0Reid School of Music\u00a0(www.eca.ed.ac.uk\/reid-school-of-music) and is very closely associated with activities in the subject area of postgraduate degrees in Design and Digital Media and Acoustics and Music Technology. ECA includes &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/httpwww-eca-ed-ac-ukreid-school-of-musicpostgraduatetaught-degreesdigital-composition-and-performance-msc\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">University Context<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1812,"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital.eca.ed.ac.uk\/sdhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}