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 you're 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 ArtsBachelor 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 history major empowers you to make sense of our complex and contradictory world through knowledge about the past. Through training in critical thinking, research, and writing, you will learn to recognise, understand, and confront the political, cultural, and economic structures that define societies. The major is structured to develop in you a range of skills and knowledge. You will learn critical reading, research, and writing skills at every level of the major, but each year puts one aspect of the historian’s toolkit front and centre. Two gateway units provide an engaging, wide-ranging introduction to the past across a broad chronological sweep. In semester 1, you are exposed to the study of the modern era, and in semester 2, they dive deeper into the pre-modern past. In first year, we focus on learning source analysis—how to ask questions of historical evidence, understanding the limits of the evidence, and the circumstances that created it. Second-year cornerstones cover core thematic concerns of historical inquiry across the pre-modernmodern divide. In second year, we build on these skills by delving more deeply into historiographical concerns, i.e., how historians have written about the past. Majors will gain a deeper appreciation of historical methodology through inquiry into debates among historians. With the capstone, you have the opportunity to pursue a major research project of your own design. Our emphasis is on the craft of writing, while developing advanced skills in source analysis and historiography.
