Undertaking a major study in Music offers you the exciting opportunity to specialise in your own musical interests. You will develop skills, concepts, and methodologies in music theory, composition, general musicianship, music history, arranging, orchestrating, improvising, conducting, and music performance. Developing competencies to meet the needs of a diverse range of learners, through theoretical study in combination with practical classroom experience, this study area prepare you to become creative and inspiring teachers for the next generation of young musicians. The final two units of this major are designed to engage students in content connected to the principles and practices of professionalism, entrepreneurship, innovation and design characteristics related to the specialist area.
For a major study students must complete 96 credit points of study.
A full course is made up of several smaller topics or subjects. These are referred to as 'units'.
Most courses have compulsory 'core' units, as well as optional units.
'Credit points' are the value that each unit contributes towards your course.
Most units at VU are worth 12 credit points. You will need to complete the required course credit points to graduate.
This unit set is studied as part of the following course(s):