Mona campus: Institute of Caribbean Studies - music, Kingston 7, Jamaica

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Undergraduate programs

• Bachelor of Arts. Three years. A program taken in association with the Edna Manley College in which students may choose to major in any visual or performing arts disciplines offered at the College. Students attend classes on the campuses of both institutions. Music majors take studies in performance, theory, aural skills. Music education is a program option. • Bachelor of Arts in Music and Performance Studies. Three years. Taken through the Institute of Caribbean Studies at the Mona campus. Concentrations in performance, music and technology, music education, music research, music production. Studies may include theory, aural skills, music history, music in world cultures, jazz studies, composition, Jamaican popular music, Bob Marley & his music, composition, music business management.

The University of the West Indies (UWI) was founded in 1948 as a college of the University of London. It was granted full university status in 1962, and operates in 16 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean. The UWI campus in Mona, Jamaica is the headquarters of the system, and besides this there are other major university centres in UWI Cave Hill (Barbados), UWI St. Augustine (Trinidad and Tobago), and UWI Five Islands (Antigua and Barbuda). Additionally there is the regional UWI Open Campus that has site locations scattered among various Caribbean nations enabling students to undertake studies using distance, blended, online and face-to-face learning modes. The full complement of countries serviced in physical or virtual sites by UWI are: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks & Caicos Islands, ensuring that a wide cross-section of the Caribbean population has access to a variety of university programs by on-site or distance mode. Full music programs are available to enrolled students, but are offered only at the Jamaica (Mona) and Trinidad (St Augustine) campuses. Since full-time programs in music are offered only at the St Augustine campus in Trinidad and the Mona campus in Jamaica, music students in these other countries must move to either Trinidad or Jamaica to take full-time music study.

February 2022