The Music minor gives students the opportunity to pursue studies in music. The key objective of the minor is to introduce students to university-level understanding of the cultural, historical, theoretical, and analytical situation of music across a variety of cultures and historical periods.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- understand the languages, forms, materials, and techniques of a range of musics;
- recognise and reflect critically on social, cultural and ethical issues, and apply local and, international perspectives to practice in music;
- develop and evaluate musical, cultural, and artistic ideas, concepts and processes by thinking creatively, critically and reflectively, and through engaging with scholarship and research; and
- communicate ideas, problems and arguments to do with music and the arts.
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:
A maximum of 12 units may come from completion of courses from the following list:
Code | Title | Units |
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MUSI1105 | Music Theory & Aural Skills 1 | 6 |
MUSI1106 | Music Theory & Aural Skills 2 | 6 |
MUSI1109 | Music from 1900 to the Present: A Century of Crisis and Change | 6 |
MUSI1110 | Introduction to Music Technology | 6 |
MUSI1113 | Introduction to Ethnomusicology | 6 |
A minimum of 12 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:
Code | Title | Units |
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INDG2002 | Contemporary Australian Indigenous Music Studies | 6 |
MUSI2203 | Music Theory & Aural Skills 3 | 6 |
MUSI2204 | Music Theory & Aural Skills 4 | 6 |
MUSI2209 | Music Recording and Production Techniques | 6 |
MUSI2211 | Writing about Music 1: Styles and Theories | 6 |
MUSI2220 | Music Ensemble | 6 |
MUSI2222 | Music in the Long 19th Century: From Classicism to Modernism | 6 |
MUSI2225 | Australian Music Culture Studies | 6 |
MUSI2226 | Composition for Film and Video Games | 6 |
MUSI2227 | Music, Sound and the Moving Image | 6 |
MUSI3309 | Music and Digital Media | 6 |
MUSI3310 | Music and Globalisation | 6 |
MUSI3313 | Writing about Music 2: Sources and Methods | 6 |
MUSI3317 | Popular Music: In Culture and in Context | 6 |
MUSI3318 | Sound Archiving | 6 |
MUSI3319 | Music Theory & Aural Skills 5 | 6 |
MUSI3320 | Music Theory & Aural Skills 6 | 6 |
MUSI3321 | Songwriting: concepts and craft | 6 |
MUSI3322 | Advanced Jazz Studies 1 | 6 |
MUSI3323 | Advanced Jazz Studies 2 | 6 |