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Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Composition)

Enrolment pattern

This page was first published on 14 November 2024 and was last amended on 4 August 2025.
View details of the changes below.

Minimum levels of achievement

Resolutions Area of study Credit points
Minimum levels of achievement to qualify for the award of pass degree
Specialisation Principal Study 48
Composition 1-8
Composition Studies 48 39 cps CMPN units as shown in
enrolment pattern below;
3 cps Composer Performer Workshop 1;
6 cps Composition Studies unit
Performance and Ensemble 6 Performance and Ensemble units
Core Music Skills 18 Harmony and Analysis: Aural Perception units
Analytical, Historical and Cultural Studies (AHCS) 18 0 cps Australian Indigenous Music;
6 cps This is Music;
12 cps AHCS Foundation or Elective units
Open Learning Environment Table O (OLE) 6
Open Learning Environment units
Major Table S (Major) 48 A major from Table S
4000-Level and electives 4000-level units and electives 48
12 cps of Music Specialist Creative Project 1-2;
12 cps of 4000-level units from Table A (Music) or Table S;
24 cps of electives from Table A (Music) and/or Table S and/or Table O.

Enrolment pattern

Semester 1 CP
Semester 2
CP
Semester 3
CP
Semester 4
CP
CMPN1601
Composition 1
6 CMPN1602
Composition 2
6 CMPN2603
Composition 3
6 CMPN2604
Composition 4
6

Harmony and Analysis units;

Aural Perception units

6

Harmony and Analysis units;

Aural Perception units

6

Harmony and Analysis units;

Aural Perception units

6 OLE units 6
CMPN1611
Instrumentation and Orchestration
6 CMPN1612
New Music, New Thinking
6 CMPN2631
Electroacoustic Music
6 CMPN2632
Computer Music Fundamentals
6
MCGY1030
This is Music
6 CMPN1013
Creative Music Technology or
CMPN1014
Sound Recording Fundamentals
3 1000-level Table S major 6 1000-level Table S major 6
MCGY0000
Australian Indigenous Music
0 Performance/Ensemble 3        
  24   24   24   24
Semester 5 CP Semester 6 CP Semester 7 CP Semester 8 CP
CMPN3605
Composition 5
6 CMPN3606
Composition 6
6 CMPN4607
Composition 7
6 CMPN4608
Composition 8
6
CMPN2613
Comp Techniques: Number and Process
6 CMPN2614
Comp Techniques: Tonality and Process

6

Composer Performer Workshop 1 3 AHCS unit 6
Performance/Ensemble 3
AHCS Foundation unit 6 Composition Studies unit 6 3000-level Table S major 6 3000-level Table S major 6
2000-level Table S major 6 2000-level Table S major 6 3000-level Table S major 6 3000-level Table S major 6
  24   24   24   24
Semester 9 CP Semester 10 CP
SCMP4601
Music Specialist Creative Project 1
6 SCMP4602
Music Specialist Creative Project 2
6
4000-level Advanced Coursework 
6 4000-level Advanced Coursework 6
Electives 12 Electives 12
       
  24   24

Post-publication amendments

Date Original publication Post-publication amendment
4/08/2025 Industry and Community Project units published in the 4000-level unit collection. Industry and Community Project units removed from the 4000-level unit collection.