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.
Philosophy is the study of fundamental ideas about the world we live in. It questions the nature of our world, asks what would constitute a good life in such a world, and asks what could be done to make it better. You will be introduced to areas central to philosophy including: Metaphysics - the study of what sorts of things exist in the world, and how they are related: for instance, whether there is a mind or soul and if so, how it is related to the body., Epistemology - the study of what constitutes knowledge of the world, and of what methods can be used to obtain it., Ethics and aesthetics - what is the nature of the good and the beautiful, and how may such value judgements be justified., Political philosophy - the principles that underlie the structure of a just society., Philosophy of language - the notions of meaning, truth and linguistic understanding., Philosophy of mind - the relationship between consciousness and physical reality., Logic - the theory of reasoning. Logicians study what makes for a good argument or inference and try to identify underlying structural features of argumentation. The philosophy major includes a wide range of electives, covering all of the above areas. Philosophy provides skills in reasoning and argument that are applicable in a wide variety of professions, as well as the opportunity to engage in a reflective appraisal of our place in the universe.
