Curriculum and Performance
Approximately two thirds of all of our degree programme modules actively encourage students to engage with themes of climate change, nature and our environment.
Other modules are designed to also facilitate work with these ideas, for example, music theory and analysis modules allow students to arrange their own music, which may reference the natural world. Students are supported in learning about resources available to them to help them explore these themes using a set of Future is Green resources that were created by RNCM staff and students.
Many modules require students to engage directly with the environment and sustainability, from the very first term of their studies, for example, in Artist Development 1 and 2. BMus year 4 students undertake an Independent Creative Project, which includes an outline application form for their project, which asks directly how they have included considerations of sustainability.
Our extra-curricular RNCM Creative Innovators Award, which involves all students being able to apply for part of a prize fund of £5,000, also factors in considerations of the environment and sustainability in how the applications are judged. Many of the past winners of this prize, for example the all-female string quartet Vulva Voce, are leading initiatives around green thinking. For example, after winning Classical Battle of the Bands, Vulva Voce embarked on a tour of Europe undertaken entirely by rail.
