Bachelor of Music /Bachelor of Commerce BMus/BCom

Course code: 1185

The following should be read in conjunction with the statement on the Bachelor of Commerce and the Bachelor of Music in the Faculty of Music handbook.

The double degree course of Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Commerce requires a minimum of four years full-time study, or five years for degree with honours, or the equivalent in part-time study. Entry to this combined degree is based on the entry requirements for the Bachelor of Music and the Bachelor of Commerce degrees. To qualify for the award, students must complete subjects to the value of a minimum of 188 credit points over the length of the course, of which 96 points should come from subjects offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics and ninety-two points from subjects offered by the Faculty of Arts in the Bachelor of Music degree.

The course structure is shown in chart 13 in the section `Charts of degree structures'.

Students must normally complete the compulsory first-year subjects ECM1020 and ECM1031/2 (Business and Economic Statistics), AAF1021/2 and AAF1031/2 (Accounting), and ECO1000 and ECO1010 (Economics) in the first year of the course. Each subject is worth six points. These could be combined with the first-year subject sequence from music to complete the first-year program. The exception to this arrangement however is for those students wishing to undertake a management studies specialisation in their degree. In this case, students may delay the completion of one of the first-year compulsory sequences to a later year, in order to complete the subjects MGC1020 and MGC1030 in the first year. Management studies would then become the category A specialisation for such students. In subsequent years students choose a major sequence in at least one of the discipline areas of accounting and finance, economics, econometrics or management. This requires at least three subjects in the discipline at each of the second and third-year levels.

Students wishing to complete a specialisation in accounting and finance, and who wish to become eligible for membership of the professional accounting bodies in Australia, must complete the following subjects: AAF1021/2, AAF1031/2, AAF2110, AAF2120, AAF2130, AAF2140, AAF3110, AAF3120, AAF3130 or AAF3140, AAF3150 or AAF3160.

Students choose ninety-two points in music from the following:

MUS1100/1110 Exploring western music I and II (6 points)*
MUS1140/1150 Ensemble and choral music workshop (6 points)
MUS1070/1080 Orchestral performance and repertoire I and II (6 points)
MUS1980/1990 Solo and duo performance and literature (6 points)*
MUS1040 Music and popular culture in the twentieth century (6 points)
MUS2110/2120 Analytical and compositional techniques (4 points each)*
MUS2070/2080 Ensemble and choral music workshop (4 points each)
MUS2210 Vocal music (4 points)
MUS2510/250 Orchestral performance and repertoire III and IV (4 points each)
MUS2880 Music of China, Japan and Korea (4 points)
MUS2980/2990 Solo and duo performance and literature I and II (4 points each)*
MUS3230 Choral music (8 points)
MUS3310 Twentieth century compositional techniques (8 points)
MUS3390 Music aesthetics, criticism, sociology and psychology (4 points)
MUS3480 Performance studies: Indonesia Gamelan (4 points)
MUS3580 Contemporary music (8 points)
MUS3660 Music composition workshop (4 points)
MUS3910 Music of Sub-saharan Africa (8 points)
MUS3970 Music pedagogy (8 points)
MUS3980/3990 Solo and duo performance and literature (6 points each)*

^* Compulsory.

Before enrolling for the double degree, students should collect from the faculty office of either faculty an information sheet setting out a number of course structure options available for the combined degree.

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