Music with Honours

Description

The Bachelor of Music with Honours program is designed to allow well qualified graduates in Music or Music/Teaching to extend their studies in Music.

Graduate Attributes

Knowledge of a Discipline

Knowledge of one particular area that the student has selected to research. Supervisors will guide students to identify important resources that will be used as the basis for their dissertation. This knowledge will then be assessed throughout the course through a range of assessment tasks to be determined by the discipline, includng the dissertation.

Communication Skills

Guided by their supervisor, students will be required to demonstrate their high level of communication skills, oral and written, when completing, for example, ethics applications, contacting potential research participants, conducting empirical and other research, communicating their ideas orally and in the writing of the dissertation. The honing of these skills will stand students in good stead for the workplace.

Information Literacy

Students will independently and under direction develop their skills for assessing the validity of relevant literature and research information. Students will also be assessed on their ability to identify and to critically analyse relevant literature as it relates to their research topic and discipline.

Life-Long Learning

The development of intellectual capacity and critical thinking sills will be fostered throughout the honours program. Through completing the coursework and dissertation students will be provided with the necessary lifelong skills to be able to research, write about and discuss critical issues. These skills can be transferred to any discipline and will be useful in any career positions.

Problem Solving

Students will need to locate, evaluate and apply information from a variety of sources throughout their degree. Students will be taught how to evaluate and interpret information in a useful manner and will be assessed on their ability to deconstruct relevant literature and to integrate theoretical and critical approaches into their work.

Social Responsibility

Students will be taught about their professional responsibilities as a researcher to provide balanced and accurate research and data, in addition, students will be taught that they have a social responsibility to question and challenge some 'facts'.

Team Work

Students will be required to participate in professional, respectful and ethical discussions with their supervisor and with other students, on issues associated with their area of study.

Detailed Course Facts

• EUR 13440 Year (National)
• EUR 13440 Year (International)

• English

Course Content

Course Aims

The Bachelor of Music with Honours develops a student's ability to undertake increasingly independent research in music and critically apply approaches to methodology and/or practice to large projects. Students are able to synthesise and critique current knowledge in the discipline and apply this knowledge to a project under specialised supervision.

Learning Outcomes

Requirements

1. An applicant for admission to candidature shall have:

(a) satisfied all of the requirements for admission to an AQF Level 7 Bachelor of Music at a recognised University, or satisfied all of the requirements for admission to the Combined Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Teaching course of The University of New England, having completed at least 96 credit points in Music units; and

(b) attained the equivalent of at least Distinction standard in at least 18 credit points at 300 level in Music.

2. With the approval of the school on the recommendation of the course coordinator a person who has:

(a) fulfilled the requirements of an AQF Level 7 qualification of a university or other institution; and

(b) passed units to the value of at least 60 credit points in Music, except that with the approval of the relevant head of school, up to 12 credit points in another subject may be substituted; and

(c) attained at least Distinction standard in 18 credit points at 300 level in the subject in which the candidate wishes to proceed;

may be admitted to the final honours course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Music with Honours.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Alumni Study Travel Fund

  Scholarships for students who are already attending the University of Reading.

• Amsterdam Merit Scholarships

  The University of Amsterdam aims to attract the world’s brightest students to its international classrooms. Outstanding students from outside the European Economic Area can apply for an Amsterdam Merit Scholarship.

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of New England.