ATS2332 - Music - Overseas study program 2 - 2019

This unit introduces students to the study of music in different cultural contexts. Culturally-specific approaches to performance, composition, music technology and ethnomusicology/musicology 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. Courses are offered subject to availability and may be stream-specific.

On completion of this unit, students are able to:

1. Understand key elements of a specific cultural context including unique approaches to a particular stream of music study;
2. Reflect upon their own musical practices and develop insights into newly acquired cultural knowledge about music;
3. Apply concepts they learned to a specific stream of music study.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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

See also Unit timetable information

Composition and music technology

Ethnomusicology and musicology

Music performance