Bachelor of Music and Performing Arts
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Bachelor of Music and Performing Arts
Thrive in a career in Music and Performing Arts A career in music and performing arts offers an exciting future within the evolving creative arts industries. Enhance your skills, discover new opportunities, and fast track your creative career through practical and creative learning. Practitioners in the creative and performing arts…
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Thrive in a career in Music and Performing Arts
A career in music and performing arts offers an exciting future within the evolving creative arts industries. Enhance your skills, discover new opportunities, and fast track your creative career through practical and creative learning.
Practitioners in the creative and performing arts industry need to be collaborative. Practitioners combine a variety of technical skills in creative thinking, design, music, performance, production and writing. This program will enable you to develop your professional skills and networks as you transition into your career.
Study the context of music and the creative and performing arts and their unique value to society at large.
Course overview
The degree offers a wide range of courses in areas suited to your own interests across the School of Creative Industries and the University. Depending on your chosen major/s, examples of what you will study include –
Directing
Music Recording and Production Technique
Scenography
Songwriting and Production
Sound and Lighting
Stagecraft
Students have the option of completing a single or a double major in this program. Students completing a double major can choose either a double major from the Music and Performing Arts major options (Double Major Pathway B); or one of the Music and Performing Arts major and one School of Creative Industries (SOCI) Major (Double Major Pathway C).
Career opportunities
Successfully navigate and build your career in the music and the performing arts industry. With flexible study options, you can tailor your degree by selecting one or two majors in Music Performance, Songwriting and Production, or the Performing Arts.
The music and performing arts degree enables collaboration between performers, writers and producers. Through engaging in live music and stage performance, combined with studio production through creative project-based assessment. You showcase your work in a variety of venues and presentation styles, as well as collaborate on projects with peers across the performing arts, music, creative writing, composition and creative production.
This program prepares you for a career as a:
Professional Musician
Performing Artist
Theatre Maker
Composer
Songwriter
Music Producer
Theatre Maker
Studio Teacher.
It also opens avenues to work in the broader creative industries.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
The University of Newcastle, Australia is a world-class university. Excellence in teaching, research, and the student experience are our focus.
The University of Newcastle is one of the world’s top 200 universities1, known for making a global impact and top 5 in the world for partnering for a more sustainable future2.Â
We embrace technology and best practice to deliver the best possible student experience. Our mission is to help students become life-ready graduates. We do this through practical learning, innovative styles of teaching, internationally recognised study programs and world-class research.Â
We are number one in Australia for industry collaboration3, our partnerships help our more than 39,000 students4 to be more employable and start on higher salaries than the Australian average5.Â
1 QS World University Rankings 2023
2 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2022 Â
3 Innovation Connections IC Report 2014 - 2020Â
4 The University of Newcastle Data Warehouse 2021Â
5 QILT Graduates Outcomes Survey 2018 - 2020Â
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