Course overview
This course introduces Music students to the practical realities of preparing for a professional career as a musician, and to the day-to-day challenges and rewards of studying music in the intensive environment of a university. The course will inform students of the wide range of potential music careers and pathways available to suitably trained musicians (including the portfolio career), and to the skills required to negotiate their music studies while at university to enable them to transition into the professional music industry. The course will also introduce students to the basic skills, concepts and expectations relevant to music research and scholarship as well as the communications skills necessary to speak and write about music, music performance and music creation. The course will also enable the students to approach their music-making, their music-creation, and their music teaching with an informed sense of cultural and social sensitivity and a mature sense of the collegial and collaborative role of a musician in society. This course prepares students for a life in music.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of potential career directions, settings and expectations within the music industry;
- Develop and articulate short and medium-term career goals, and the strategies to work towards them;
- Demonstrate an understanding of the skills and processes involved in music scholarship as relevant to the understanding, performance and creation of music;
- Exhibit confidence and skill in the written and oral communication of musical ideas;
- Produce a professionally informed artist biography, resumé and associated documents;
- Demonstrate an understanding of the administrative systems that support music-making and music-creation.