UNDERSTAND THE INDUSTRY. CREATE YOUR PLACE IN IT.
Explore how music moves between creativity, audiences and commercial opportunity.
Develop your understanding of the people, organisations, rights, relationships and decisions that shape the contemporary music business—and begin applying that knowledge through practical business activity.
Explore how music moves from creativity to audience—and develop the commercial, strategic and entrepreneurial capability to build opportunities within it.
Azusa Short Courses focus learning around defined capabilities and outcomes, giving you the opportunity to develop knowledge, put it into practice and produce evidence of what you have achieved.
Understand the knowledge and principles.
Apply them through purposeful activity.
Demonstrate what you have learned through meaningful evidence.
Azusa Short Courses place significant emphasis on portfolio-based assessment, designed around the learning outcomes of the course.
The objective isn't to produce work simply because an assessment requires it. It is to create evidence that demonstrates:
Successfully complete an eligible Short Course and progress to the corresponding Diploma programme, and your achievement can be recognised against that first module.
You have already demonstrated those learning outcomes. So rather than simply repeating them, you can build from the point you have already reached.
JANUARY 2027: Short Course — Anatomy of the Music Industry
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SEPTEMBER 2027: Validated Diploma Progression — Module 1 Recognition