Contemporary Music Studies
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Unit of study table
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition |
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Core |
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| MUSC1611 The Studio for Songwriters 1 |
6 | A Students enrolling in this unit of study must have some experience with writing their own original songs in a contemporary music style P MUSC1401 |
Electives |
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| CMPN1612 New Music, New Thinking |
6 | |
| CMPN2510 Scoring and Arranging for the Screen |
6 | |
| JAZZ1021 Jazz History 1 |
3 | A Students enrolling in this unit are expected to have strong overall music skills including notation, reading, aural skills, music research and analysis and jazz performance (excluding non-jazz students) |
| JAZZ1022 Jazz History 2 |
3 | P JAZZ1021 |
| JAZZ3631 Music Industry Skills |
6 | |
| MUSC1300 Popular Music Ensemble |
3 | P MUSC1402 |
| MUSC1506 Classical Music: A Cultural History |
6 | A The ability to follow a musical score while listening to the music and knowledge of elementary music theory |
| MUSC1507 Sounds, Screens, Speakers: Music and Media |
6 | |
| MUSC1604 Music, Health and Wellbeing |
6 | |
| MUSC2614 Composition Workshop |
6 | A The ability to play a musical instrument and/or make music with digital devices. P 18 credit points of 1000-level units |
| MUSC2616 Noise/Sound/Music: Engaging Sonic Worlds |
6 | |
| MUSC2638 Jazz Riots and Revolutions |
6 | |
| MUSC2645 Psychology of Music |
6 | |
| MUSC2648 Words and Music : Song Across Cultures |
6 | |
| MUSC2653 Introduction to Digital Music Techniques |
6 | N MUSC3603 |
| MUSC2654 Popular Music |
6 | |
| MUSC2663 Survey of Film Music |
6 | |
| MUSC2666 Global Sound: Drum and Bass, Rhythm and Soul |
6 | |
| MUSC2672 Australian Popular Music |
6 | |
| MUSC2695 Popular Music Theory |
6 | P MUSC1503 or MUSC1504 or MUSC1501 or MUSC2693 or MCGY1008 or JAZZ1621 or JAZZ1019 |
| MUSC3603 Advanced Digital Music Techniques |
6 | P MUSC2653 or (CMPN1013 and CMPN1014) |
| MUSC3610 Musical Traditions and Globalization |
6 | |
| MUSC3629 Music and Everyday Life |
6 | |
| MUSC3630 Popular Music and the Moving Image |
6 | |
| MUSC3631 Music in Public: Performance and Power |
6 | |
| MUSC3639 Music Journalism |
6 | |
| MUSC3640 Rhythms and Sounds of Latin America |
6 | |
| MUSC3699 Understanding Music: Modes of Hearing |
6 | |
