Undergraduate - UnitATS2332 - Music - Overseas study program 2

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 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	Prato Summer semester A 2015 (Flexible)
Coordinator(s)	Associate Professor Robert Burke

Notes

This is an international study program that requires an application to be enrolled - see the Arts PratoArts Prato (http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/prato/) page for further information.
The unit is offered as a Summer Semester unit - see the Summer Arts ProgramSummer Arts Program (http://www.monash.edu/students/courses/arts/summer-program.html) page for further information.

Synopsis

This unit introduces students to the study of music in different cultural contexts. Culturally-specific approaches to performance, research and composition will be investigated in their environments. The focus of the unit will be a reflective approach to the integration of diverse traditions of music into individual creative and research activity.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, the students:

Will understand key elements of the relevant music culture including unique approaches to performance, research and composition;
Will have the ability to reflect upon their own musical practices and develop these in the context of newly acquired music cultural knowledge;
Will apply concepts they have learned within a performance / composition / musicological context.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Additional requirements
This unit is taught intensively at Prato

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Robert Burke

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Music
Arts enrichment units

Prerequisites

Non-Bachelor of Music students will be required to audition, submit a folio of compositions or sample of written work according to course requirements prior to enrolment.

Prohibitions

ATS3332