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Professional Project (Performance) (MUSI40066)
HonoursPoints: 12.5Not available in 2020
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Overview
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This subject prepares performance-focused students for entry into the music performance profession. Students will identify individual career motivators, and construct artistic and financial pathways towards reaching their medium and long term goals. Intensive work with industry professionals will prepare students for the competitive realities of auditions, competitions, performances and oral presentations. Students will create a portfolio of written documents in preparation for the professional project concert, and in support of their future careers.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of the subject, students will be able to:
- clearly articulate career goals
- articulate pathways towards career goals
- develop and maintain peak performance capacity
- identify and create opportunities for developing a financially sustainable career in the arts
- understand, evaluate and adjust individual physical and psychological performance health for a sustainable career
- construct appropriate written materials in support of career goals
- construct and deliver appropriate oral presentations with poise and confidence (interviews, networking, competitions, auditions, concerts etc.)
Generic skills
Students will develop:
- initiative, resilience, interpersonal and resource management skills relative to the professional world of performance
- the capacity to evaluate and elevate one's own physical and mental performance health
- greater awareness of pathways in the music profession
- the ability to self-manage one's individual career
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Attendance and active participation in class | Throughout the teaching period | 10% |
Reflective journal, on prescribed performance-related topics
| End of the teaching period | 50% |
Professional performance concert project: Personal statement
| Week 3 | 10% |
Professional performance concert project: Written program notes of 200 words and short biography of 200 words
| Week 5 | 10% |
Professional performance concert project: Marketing plan
| Week 6 | 10% |
Professional performance concert project: Oral presentation and stagecraft (assessed during concert project performance) | From Week 10 to Week 12 | 10% |
Additional details
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
Not available in 2020
Time commitment details
120 hours
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Don Greene, Performance Success: Performing Your Best Under Pressure, Routledge, Ne York, 2001.
Last updated: 3 November 2022