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.

Students should be aware that this major does not provide a pathway to an Honours.

Outcomes

Students are able to:

  1. articulate broad historical perspectives on the nature and contexts of music and the relevance of historical and stylistic conventions from various periods
  2. demonstrate transferable skills in research, critical thinking and communication which enable successful tertiary study, and facilitate further study and lifelong learning
  3. critically engage with, and interpret key texts and works from, a range of music sub-disciplines
  4. 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):

Availability Unit code Unit name unit requirements
S1 MUSC1340 Musical Revolutions
Incompatibility
MUSC1310 Communication Skills in Music
S2 MUSC1350 Popular Music in Global Perspective
Incompatibility
MUSC3010 Popular Music and Culture
S1 MUSC1351 Women in Music None

Level 2

Degree-specific major units

Take all units (12 points):

Availability Unit code Unit name unit requirements
S1 MUSC2341 Music and Practices of Listening
Incompatibility
MUSC2331 Western Art Music 1 (Renaissance and Baroque) MUSC2332 Western Art Music 2 (Classical and Romantic) MUSC3331 Western Art Music 3 (Modernist and Postmodernist)
S2 MUSC2342 Music in Action
Incompatibility
MUSC2331 Western Art Music 1 (Renaissance and Baroque) MUSC2332 Western Art Music 2 (Classical and Romantic) MUSC3331 Western Art Music 3 (Modernist and Postmodernist)

Level 3

Degree-specific major units

Take all units (18 points):

Availability Unit code Unit name unit requirements
S2 MUSC3335 Music in the Sixties
Prerequisites
any level 2 unit (this unit does not require any technical music literacy)
S2 MUSC3336 Music in Film, TV and Video Games
Prerequisites
any level 2 unit (this unit does not require any technical music literacy)
S2 MUSC3341 Music, Society, and Ideas
Prerequisites
any level 2 unit
Incompatibility
MUSC3331 Western Art Music 3 (Modernist and Postmodernist)