What will I learn?
Polish your talent for music theory and practice while exploring the arts humanities and social sciences.You will receive a rigorous, high-quality tertiary music education, specialising in performance, composition or creative music technology. In Arts you can draw flexibly from a rich repertoire of 40 majors and minors. You may like to concentrate on the history, culture or language of the music youre playing, or add to your career flexibility with music through theatre, performance, film or journalism. Arts is built around deeply enriching experiences, and via your elective units, offers you four Signature elements through which to develop your unique graduate profile: Global immersion, Intercultural expertise, Professional experience or Innovation capability. This course leads to two separate degrees: Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music. You will gain all the benefits of each degree course (see Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Music) and be fully equipped to pursue a career in either field separately or to combine the two in your chosen work. As a graduate with a degree in Arts and another in Music you could pursue a career in the arts sector, performance, music instruction or composing, or in interdisciplinary roles, such as production, arts management, policy or coaching.The communications and media studies program focuses on new media and the dynamic changes in media and communication industries. We examine the organisation, processes and effects of traditional and new communications technologies such as print, television, film, electronic and digital media, and the complex relationships between audiences, producers and policy-makers. You will learn to critically analyse the media and learn about the structure of communications industries and the relations between media, culture and power. Communications theory is an integral part of the discipline, coupled with an investigation of the practices, technologies and processes that make up modern media. The program offers an international approach, examining communications in national and international contexts. It prepares you to work across the public and private sectors, and a wide range of communications industries.