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Bachelor of Music (Music Education)

Honours enrolment pattern

This page was first published on 14 November 2024 and was last amended on 7 August 2025.
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Minimum levels of achievement

Area of study Credit points Minimum levels of achievement to qualify for the award of pass degree
Principal Study 24 Principal Study Performance (Music Ed) 1-4
Music Education 69 Prescribed MUED units set out in the Standard Enrolment Pattern
LANTITE 0 EDLN2000 NESA required undergraduate unit
Music Skills 18 Harmony and Analysis 1-4; Aural Perception 1-4 (or Fundamentals of Music units for CMP, Non-western, Drum Set students)
Analytical, Historical and Cultural Studies (AHCS)
24 This is Music;
Classical Music: A Cultural History
Australian Musical Worlds (or New Music, New Thinking for composition students);
Music in the Classical and Romantic Eras (or Instrumentation and Orchestration for composition students or Sounds, Screens, Speakers for CMP students)
Performance and Ensemble 9 Performance or Ensemble units
Honours 48 Music Education Honours A;
Music Education Honours B;
Music Education Honours C;
Professional Experience 3

Enrolment pattern

Semester 1 CP Semester 2 CP Semester 3 CP Semester 4 CP
PERF1211
Principal Study Performance (Music Ed) 1
6 PERF1212
Principal Study Performance (Music Ed) 2
6 PERF2213
Principal Study Performance (Music Ed) 3
6 PERF2214
Principal Study Performance (Music Ed) 4
6
Aural Perception;
Harmony and Analysis/Fundamentals of Music unit
6 Aural Perception;
Harmony and Analysis/Fundamentals of Music unit
6 Aural Perception; Harmony and Analysis/Fundamentals of Music unit
(or MUSC2695 Popular Music Theory for CMP students)
6 MUSC1506
Classical Music: A Cultural History
6
MCGY1030
This is Music
6 MCGY1031
Australian Musical Worlds
(or CMPN1612 New Music, New Thinking for composition students)
6 MCGY2612
Music in the Classical and Romantic Eras
(or CMPN1611 Instrumentation and Orchestration for composition students or MUSC1507 Sounds, Screens, Speakers for CMP students)
6 MUED4002
Technology in Music Education
3
Performance/Ensemble unit
(or CMPN1014 Sound and Video
Recording Fundamentals for composition
and CMP students)
3 MUED1008
Fundamentals of Teaching
3 MUED1009
Psychology of Learning and Instruction
3 MUED2605
Children, Music and Educational Settings
6
MUED1010
Key Ideas in Music Education
3 MUED1005
Key Approaches in Music Education
3 MUED1007
Australian Indigenous Music Education
3 MUED2302
Classroom Management
3
            EDLN2000
LANTITE
0
               
  24   24   24   24
Semester 5 CP Semester 6 CP Semester 7 CP Semester 8 CP
MUED3629
Honours Research in Music Education 1
6 MUED3630
Honours Research in Music Education 2
6 MUED4612
Music Education Honours A
12 MUED4614
Music Education Honours C
12
MUED2606
Adolescent Development and Behaviour
6 MUED3606
Professional Experience 2
6 MUED4613
Music Education Honours B
12 MUED4633
Professional Experience 3
12
MUED4006
Popular Music Studies
3 MUED3604
Ensemble Pedagogy
6        
MUED3605
Teaching Junior Secondary Music
6 Performance/Ensemble
(or Composition Studies unit for composition students
6        
MUED3031
Teaching Jazz in Secondary School
3            
  27   21   24   24

Post-publication amendments

Date Original publication Post-publication amendment
7/08/2025 MCGY000 published in Semester 1 of Enrolment Planner MCGY000 removed from Semester 1 of Enrolment Planner.