Undergraduate - UnitATS3061 - Music in Australian society

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music
Offered	Clayton Second semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Joel Crotty

Synopsis

Topics include the critical study of Australian music history writing, selected composers and their works, and how music is placed within multiculturalism.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students should have acquired a general knowledge of the place of music in Australian culture, past and present and an understanding of historical and cultural theories with which critically to evaluate music within various contexts.