The Music Honours Specialisation gives you high-level preparation for professional life or a higher degree by research through the development of an advanced knowledge of the research principles and methods and theoretical concepts of music, and through the design and implementation of a research project, typically a thesis of up to 20,000 words, that develops new understandings or that provides solutions to complex problems.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- pose a significant research question relating to music;
- investigate this question creatively, critically, ethically, and independently, including through sophisticated use of theory and methodology as appropriate to music, and place these investigations in the context of the relevant intellectual tradition; and
- communicate
their research and its findings through an appropriate medium.
Relevant Degrees
Admission Requirements
1. a major or equivalent in Music
2. with the written approval of an identified supervisor for the thesis
Requirements
This Honours specialisation requires the completion of 48 units, which must consist of:
36 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:
MUSI4401 The Scholar Musician 1
MUSI4404 Creative Practice as Research
THES4105 Thesis
Either:
A minimum of 6 units from completion of courses from the following list:
MUSI4410 Music Honours Exegesis
MUSI4411 Music Honours Extended Exegesis
A maximum of 6 units from completion of courses from the following list:
ANIP4001 Australian National Internships Program Honours Internship A
MUSI4402 The Scholar Musician 2
MUSI4412 Music Honours Ensemble
Or:
6 units from completion of MUSI4402 The Scholar Musician 2
6 units from completion of courses from the following list:
ANIP4001 Australian National Internships Program Honours Internship A
MUSI4412 Music Honours Ensemble
SOCR4001 Statistics for Social Scientists
SOCR4002 Survey Data Analysis
SOCR4003 Qualitative Research Analysis
SOCR4006 Online Research Methods
SOCR4008 Qualitative Social Research
SOCR4009 Quantitative Social Research
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