Teaching Popular Music (MUSI90048)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2020
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About this subject
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Overview
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This is a practical module that examines the challenges of introducing popular music into classrooms, both from a musical and educational perspective. Students will consider how popular music performance, improvisation and composition skills can be readily handled in formal education settings and the connection between popular music and youth culture as well as an examination of popular music styles and forms.
This subject can be taken as a single subject via the Community Access Program, or for credit towards the Master of Music Studies degree. Further information regarding the Community Access Program and Application forms can be accessed via this website - http://futurestudents.unimelb.edu.au/courses/single_subject_studies
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should have gained:
- An enhanced understanding and critical awareness of the nature of Popular Music and its place in the music classroom;
- The ability to design a teaching program that embodies principles from research in the area;
- An enhanced capacity to undertake independent research and present in a scholarly discussion.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject, students should have also developed:
- The capacity to apply new concepts to their critical interpretation of familiar and new information and experiences;
- The ability to produce scholarly writing.
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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Preparation for sessions | Throughout the teaching period | 20% |
Presentation for the class | Day 4 | 30% |
An independent assignment resulting in a unit of work that embodies the principles covered in seminars | 5 Weeks after the end of teaching | 50% |
Additional details
Provision will be made for the sharing of students work.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
Not available in 2020
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
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- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
Last updated: 3 November 2022