Monash University Handbook 2011 Undergraduate - Course

This combined course provides students with an opportunity to develop their primary music study and academic skills in music, while expanding their analytical and critical knowledge of other performing arts disciplines. The program will be particularly appropriate to students who wish to pursue creative enterprises that cross existing boundaries, genres and disciplines, such as musical theatre and multimedia performance. Students will undertake the discipline-based component of the Bachelor of Performing Arts in drama and theatre studies. They will be encouraged to open their horizons of understanding and imagination to the many new materials, ideas and values with which they will be confronted.

Students will gain experience in specific musical training and instruction as appropriate, with the added benefit of a broader practical and academic experience in the performing arts.

Refer to the Bachelor of Music objectives at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/courses/0821.html and Bachelor of Performing Arts objectives at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/courses/1144.html.

This course consists of 96 points in the music component and 96 points in the performing arts component.

Music component

(a.) a primary music major (48 points)

(b.) a second music major (48 points)

Performing arts component

(a.) a theatre major (48 points)

(b.) a performance major (48 point).

Areas of Study

Arts studies

• music
• performance
• theatre

Students may graduate with the Bachelor of Music at the end of three years of study by transferring into the single Bachelor of Music degree provided they have met the requirements of the Bachelor of Music. Students may exit from the double degree program and graduate with the Bachelor of Performing Arts provided they have met the requirements of the Bachelor of Performing Arts.

Bachelor of Music

Bachelor of Performing Arts