Honours Overview

Description

Honours in Music provides an opportunity for you to undertake dedicated, advanced work in the areas of music performance, composition, creative music technologies, and/or musicology (including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, psychology of music, music sociology, and music education).

You will acquire comprehensive research, technical, analytical, and critical skills as you develop your area(s) of specialisation. Honours in music opens the door to postgraduate study options at national and international centres of music excellence, while at the same time providing you with enhanced employment opportunities in areas such as music performance, music teaching, composing, arranging, producing, arts management, journalism, librarianship, and community music.

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) undertake dedicated, advanced work in the areas of music performance, composition or musicology (historical musicology, ethnomusicology, psychology of music, music sociology and music education); (2) develop in-depth knowledge of a chosen specialist area; and (3) acquisition of comprehensive research, technical, analytical and critical skills that culminate in a public recital, a composition portfolio or a dissertation.

Entry requirements

1. (a) the equivalent of a UWA weighted average mark of at least 65 per cent in the Level 3 units of the Music (double major) or Music Specialist Studies and Music Studies majors; and

(b) the equivalent of a UWA weighted average mark of at least 65 per cent in the level 3 Music non-practical units; and

(c) a mark of at least 70% for the key assessment item for the level 3 final principal studies unit in the intended area(s) of specialisation for honours, completed within 6 months of commencing honours; or

2. equivalent as assessed by the honours coordinator.

Intake periods

Beginning of year and mid-year (mid-year intake for part-time study only)

Courses

Honours in Music can be taken as a specialisation in the following degrees:

No study plans found for this course. See study plans for more information.

Units

Key to availability of units:
S1
Semester 1
S2
Semester 2
Take all units (48 points):
AvailabilityUnit codeUnit nameUnit requirements
S1 MUSC4101 Contemporary Debates in MusicNone
S1, S2 MUSC4103 Introduction to Music Research
Prerequisites
Approval of the Unit Coordinator
and MUSC3341 Music, Society, and Ideas
or one level 3 Unit(s)
Music History,
or Research,
or Musicology,
or Electronic Music
Co-requisites
BH009 Bachelor of Music (Honours) BH001 Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
S1, S2 MUSC4104 Music Research Project
Prerequisites
Successful completion of
Unit(s) MUSC4103 Introduction to Music Research
S2 MUSC4105 Music Aesthetics and CriticismNone
S1, S2 MUSC4140 Music Honours Research 1
Prerequisites
for Music Honours Research (musicology): an average mark of at least 70 per cent in the Level 3 units of the Music Studies major, or equivalent.
for Music Honours Research (composition
or performance): a mark of at least 70 per cent for the portfolio/recital/examination component of MUSC3542 Principal Studies 6, or equivalent.
for Music Honours Research (electronic music and sound design).
a mark of at least 70 per cent for the creative research project component of MUSC3572 Sound Art: Major Project, or equivalent.
S1, S2 MUSC4141 Music Honours Research 2
Prerequisites
MUSC4140 Music Honours Research 1