Bachelor of Music (Degree with Honours) (BH-MUS) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
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About this course
Contact
Currently enrolled students:
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
- Contact Stop 1
Future students:
- Further information: http://mcm.unimelb.edu.au/study/degrees
- Email: vcamcm-enquiries@unimelb.edu.au
Coordinator
Dr Melanie Plesch
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Contextualise their performing within the best practices of local, national and international standards;
- Demonstrate a strong knowledge and understanding of their discipline;
- Pursue musical knowledge and skills independently, with intellectual honesty and rigorous methods of inquiry;
- Use and assimilate the potential of technologies to facilitate the dissemination of musical skills, knowledge and information;
- Make critical, informed and sophisticated responses to new musical ideas, methodologies and theoretical frameworks;
- Show empathy, self-reflection and critical intelligence in the dissemination of skills and knowledge in their specialisation;
- Work competently and productively in a musical setting, both alone and in groups;
- Integrate a holistic view of music from different times and places into their working and intellectual lives;
- Participate with integrity, discrimination and sound knowledge and understanding in national and international debates, dialogues and discussions in their area of specialsiation and in the discipline as a whole;
- Communicate effectively;
- Qualify for employment in a wide range of occupations in the music profession;
- Have a lifelong commitment to learning.
Graduate attributes
Graduates of the Bachelor of Music (Honours) will be:
- Academically excellent as a result of:
o intensive and rigorous one-to-one tuition/supervision
o participation in a diversity of teaching and learning modes
o assessment practices that demand independent thinking, critical analysis and an openness to new ideas
- Articulate and authoritatively informed in musical discourse
- Familiar and competent with research protocols, written and spoken communication skills and the ethics of scholarship
- Artistically sophisticated with a high level of understanding of the aesthetic of their discipline
- Community leaders through:
o undertaking and developing new initiatives in community awareness and understanding of the place of music in society
o a program of professional projects
o leadership roles in University and community based public performances, workshops and outreach programs
o high level development of teamwork and group dynamic skills
- Attuned to cultural diversity through:
o a raft of subject options that involve thinking about difference in ways of being musical as well as participating in music from other times and places
o familiarity with culturally diverse ways of conceptualising and talking about music
o hands-on experiences of culturally diverse styles of music making and musical pedagogy
- Global citizens through:
o participation throughout the course in the inherently international nature of music in all its manifestations
o awareness as ambassadors for Australia through promotion of its cultural richness
o facilitators and communicators between diverse cultural communities
Last updated: 16 March 2025