Dundalk IT music graduate recognised by world’s leading academic awards programme
Recent Dundalk IT music graduate Stuart Anderson has been named as a Winning and Highly Commended Entrant at the Undergraduate Awards 2017.
Stuart, who has now completed his final year on the Applied Music course received the award in recognition of an essay he completed entitled ‘Debussy’s Contribution to Western Art Music’. This essay was part of an elective module entitled ‘Contemporary Music Seminar: Europe and the USA’ taught by DkIT lecturer, Georgina Hughes.
Speaking about the announcement, Georgina Hughes said: “Stuart’s achievement is a reflection of the thriving academic environment in the music department at DkIT. Students are offered the opportunity to explore a broad range of musicological disciplines throughout their course of study.”
This year the Undergraduate Awards (UA) received 6472 papers to the programme and a student paper from DkIT has been selected by an international panel as among the very best.
As the leading academic awards programme for undergraduate students, The UA mission is to find and celebrate outstanding undergraduate work.
UA assembles academics from around the globe to assess the work received and through a rigorous judging process we find the best, most innovative, and creative undergraduate coursework.
The top 10% of papers in each of the 25 categories are Highly Commended, just one paper from each category is named the UA Global Winner and the top papers from each region is named the Regional Winners.
