Bachelor of Music (Degree with Honours) (BH-MUS) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

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:

• intensive and rigorous one-to-one tuition/supervision
• participation in a diversity of teaching and learning modes
• 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:

• undertaking and developing new initiatives in community awareness and understanding of the place of music in society
• a program of professional projects
• leadership roles in University and community based public performances, workshops and outreach programs
• high level development of teamwork and group dynamic skills

Attuned to cultural diversity through:

• 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
• familiarity with culturally diverse ways of conceptualising and talking about music
• hands-on experiences of culturally diverse styles of music making and musical pedagogy

Global citizens through:

• participation throughout the course in the inherently international nature of music in all its manifestations
• awareness as ambassadors for Australia through promotion of its cultural richness
• facilitators and communicators between diverse cultural communities