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Music and Health (MUSI20150)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5Dual-Delivery (Southbank)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Overview
Availability | Semester 2 - Dual-Delivery |
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Fees | Look up fees |
How is it that music helps you cope during difficult times? Why is music sometimes helpful and sometimes unhelpful to people? How does music work to motivate your mental health or exercise routine? How does music help people bond, bring people together or exclude people?
Music and Health explores these questions using theory and research from a range of fields such as music studies, sociology, psychology, and medicine. This subject involves learning about the benefits and limits of music for your health and how it can be used in a range of settings to benefit the health and wellbeing of others.
Topics covered will include music for individuals, in groups and communities. Different locations, such as hospitals, schools, community organisations, will be covered and we will consider the ways that music is best used in each of these settings. We will share case studies in which people with lived experience explain their uses of music for health and well-being.
This subject is for students who have an interest in music, health and well-being for themselves and others.
Students do not need to be a musician or have any experience playing an instrument or singing, although that is always welcome.
Delivery
This subject is co-delivered with MUSI10237 Music and Health, MUSI40074 Music and Health and MUSI90188 Music and Health Research.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- critically appraise the relationship between music and health;
- identify areas for musical development outside the technique / competency spectrum;
- skills in using music to reduce anxiety and improve communication in others.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject students should have:
- greater awareness of healthy behaviours for life;
- improved non-verbal communication skills enhanced capacity to consider subjective and objective;
- aspects of life experiences.
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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MUSI10237 | Music and Health | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Southbank) |
12.5 |
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: 11 April 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Weekly participation in web-based quiz
| Throughout the teaching period | 40% |
Essay
| During the assessment period | 60% |
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Coordinator Kat McFerran Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Southbank) Contact hours 24 hours, comprising one 1-hour online tutorial, and 2-hours engaging in online learning activities per week. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 25 July 2022 to 23 October 2022 Last self-enrol date 5 August 2022 Census date 31 August 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 23 September 2022 Assessment period ends 18 November 2022
Additional delivery details
Delivery
This subject is co-delivered with MUSI40074 Music and Health and MUSI90188 Music and Health Research.
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Levitin, D.J. The world in six songs: How the musical brain created human nature. London: Dutton Publishers, 2008.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Diploma in Music Course Bachelor of Music Breadth Track Music, Mind and Wellbeing - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Environments
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Science
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 11 April 2024