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Graduate Diploma in Music (GD-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
Melanie Plesch,
Associate Professor Stuart Greenbaum (Composition)
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this course, students should be able to:
- 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, sound knowledge and understanding in national and international debates, dialogues and discussions in their area of specialisation and in the discipline as a whole
- Communicate effectively
- Have a lifelong commitment to learning
Generic skills
Graduates should also have developed the following skills:
- A sound attitude towards undertaking life-long learning in music
- A well-developed capacity to understand and participate as an individual and in collaborative teams as a leader or as a team member
- A sophisticated level of written, verbal and musical communication skills
- An ability to think critically and analytically about the musical experience in all its facets: as performance, as composition, and as historical-sociocultural document
Graduate attributes
University of Melbourne postgraduate coursework degrees seek to develop graduates who demonstrate a capacity for contemporary professional practice and/or specialist knowledge and theory. Postgraduate coursework degrees have multiple purposes. They are designed to provide students with the opportunity for advanced knowledge and understanding in a specialist area; to enhance professional knowledge and skills; and to engage with new and emerging fields of study.
Last updated: 18 December 2020