Major Overview
- Description
This major develops your skills and expertise in thinking critically about music across a broad range of styles and contexts, encompassing its histories, social and political meanings, and performance and listening practices. The major attracts students from across the University, at all levels. As a result you will have the experience of studying alongside students from diverse backgrounds, creating a dynamic and engaging learning environment.
- Outcomes
Students are able to:
- articulate broad historical perspectives on the nature and contexts of music and the relevance of historical and stylistic conventions from various periods
- demonstrate transferable skills in research, critical thinking and communication which enable successful tertiary study, and facilitate further study and lifelong learning
- critically engage with, and interpret key texts and works from, a range of music sub-disciplines
- demonstrate a socio-cultural and historically sensitive perspective of various forms of music and music cultures.
- Broadening guidelines
All students studying towards a Bachelor's Degree at UWA are required to Broaden their studies by completing a minimum of four units (24 points) of study outside their degree specific major. Broadening is your opportunity to explore other areas of interest, investigate new disciplines and knowledge paradigms and to shape your degree to suit your own aspirations and interests. Many students are able to undertake more than this minimum amount of broadening study and encouraged to do so and to pursue as many areas of interest as practical during your course of study.
- Incompatibilities
MJD-MUSDM Music
MJD-MUSST Music Studies
MJD-MEMSD Music: Electronic Music and Sound Design
MJD-MSTGM Music General Studies
- Courses
Music and Society can be taken as a degree-specific major in the following degree courses:
No study plans found for this major. See study plans for more information.
Units
Key to availability of units:
- S1
- Semester 1
- S2
- Semester 2
Level 1
Degree-specific major units
Take all units (18 points):
Level 2
Degree-specific major units
Take all units (12 points):
Level 3
Degree-specific major units
Take all units (18 points):
| Availability | Unit code | Unit name | unit requirements |
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| S2 | MUSC3335 | Music in the Sixties |
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| S2 | MUSC3336 | Music in Film, TV and Video Games |
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| S2 | MUSC3341 | Music, Society, and Ideas |
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