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Diploma of Music

Digital Music Composition

Enrolment pattern

This page was first published on 13 November 2025 and was last amended on 26 November 2025.
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Minimum levels of achievement

Course resolutions​ Area of study Credit points
Minimum levels of achievement to qualify for the award of pass degree
Principal Study Area Principal Study 24
  • Digital Music Composition 1-4.
Additional Core

Composition Studies

24
  • Electroacoustic Music
  • Creative Music Technology
  • Sound and Video Recording Fundamentals
  • Computer Music Fundamentals
  • Interactive Media and Sound Installations.
Core Music Skills 18 Either:
  1. 12cp Fundamentals of Music units; or
  2. 12 cp Harmony & Analysis 1-2 and Aural Perception 1-2; and
    6cp chosen Music Skills unit (recommend Popular Music Theory).
Analytical, Historical and Cultural Studies (AHCS) 12
  • Australian Indigenous Music
  • This is Music
  • Sounds, Screens, Speakers: Music and Media
Electives Electives 18 Table A (Music) and/or Table S.

Enrolment pattern

Semester 1 CP
Semester 2
CP
Semester 3
CP
Semester 4
CP
CMPN1231
Digital Music Composition 1
6
CMPN1232
Digital Music Composition 2
6
CMPN2223
Digital Music Composition 3
6
CMPN2234
Digital Music Composition 4
6
Music Skills
6
Music Skills 6
Music Skills unit
(recommend MUSC2695 Popular Music Theory)
6
CMPN2632
Computer Music Fundamentals
6
CMPN2631
Electroacoustic Music
6 CMPN1013
Creative Music Technology;
CMPN1014
Sound and Video Recording Fundamentals
6
MUSC1507
Sounds, Screens, Speakers: Music and Media
6
CMPN3634
Interactive Media and Sound Installations
6
MCGY1030
This is Music
6 Elective 6
Elective 6
Elective 6
MCGY0000
Australian Indigenous Music
0  
  24   24   24   24

 

Post-publication amendments

Date Original publication Post-publication amendment
26/11/2025 Minimum levels of achievement section contained outdated content. Minimum levels of achievement section updated with new current content.
26/11/2025 Enrolment pattern section contained outdated content. nrolment pattern section updated with new current content.