Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music - Indigenous Cultures and Histories

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.

This area of study enables you to understand the past and contemporary experiences of Indigenous peoples in Australia and internationally. You will acquire a general knowledge of different aspects of Indigenous cultures and how these have undergone change and adaptation, and develop skills in constructing critical arguments and analysing topics in terms of their historical and contemporary contexts. Indigenous cultures and histories units will allow you to develop a sound knowledge of key issues in Indigenous societies, including the ongoing relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians and Indigenous relationships to each other and to the land and sea. You will examine points of contestation and how these have shaped the position of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in contemporary society. The Indigenous cultures and histories major is an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary area focusing on studies in anthropology, archaeology and history. It complements many other study areas including geography, history, politics, linguistics, environmental science, sociology, gender studies, art history and theory, anthropology, archaeology and history. Students undertaking courses from other faculties, such as Law, Education, Science or Engineering will also benefit from including Indigenous cultures and histories in their studies.

At the time of enrolment in a course at Monash University, you must be at least 17 years of age.
All Monash undergraduate courses require you to have successfully completed a minimum of an Australian Year 12 qualification (or equivalent) and achieve the required academic entry score. Most Monash faculties generally use your most recent studies for admission however other guidelines may apply where your prior qualification may be considered.
GCE A Level - 9
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme - 28
Advanced Placement -7
IELTS - 6.5 (Reading - 6.0, Listening - 6.0, Writing - 6.0, Speaking- 6.0)
Paper-based TOEFL – 550 (Test of written English - 4.5)
TOEFL iBT -79 (Reading- 13, Listening- 12, Writing: 21, Speaking- 18)