Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music - Anthropology

Polish your talent for music theory and practice while exploring the arts humanities and social sciences.You will receive a rigorous, high-quality tertiary music education, specialising in performance, composition or creative music technology. In Arts you can draw flexibly from a rich repertoire of 40 majors and minors. You may like to concentrate on the history, culture or language of the music youre playing, or add to your career flexibility with music through theatre, performance, film or journalism. Arts is built around deeply enriching experiences, and via your elective units, offers you four Signature elements through which to develop your unique graduate profile: Global immersion, Intercultural expertise, Professional experience or Innovation capability. This course leads to two separate degrees: Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music. You will gain all the benefits of each degree course (see Bachelor of ArtsBachelor of Music) and be fully equipped to pursue a career in either field separately or to combine the two in your chosen work. As a graduate with a degree in Arts and another in Music you could pursue a career in the arts sector, performance, music instruction or composing, or in interdisciplinary roles, such as production, arts management, policy or coaching.Anthropology is the comparative study of different ways of life. It seeks an insider perspective on alternative ways of being in the world. To interpret human behaviour, anthropologists ask questions not just about what people do, but also about why they do it, what they mean by it, what motivates them, and what values guide them. In the past, anthropologists were invariably Westerners making observations of societies that visibly differed from their own. This image is no longer adequate for understanding anthropology. It is true that contemporary anthropologists are still interested in studying difference and the generation of difference, but they are playing an increasingly complex and important role in the modern world: wherever human diversity is an issue, anthropologists are called upon to provide their expertise. In fields including peace-building and dispute resolution, health and medicine, resource exploitation, social policy, indigenous issues, corporate management, mediatisation, religious radicalisation, development aid and policy, and curatingmuseum practice, anthropologists are called upon to contribute their specialised knowledge and understanding. You will explore anthropological issues across a range of areas and societies, and will be challenged to reflect on your own cultural world from perspectives that may differ radically from your own. In the process, you will gain skills in research methods distinctive to anthropology, and be given the opportunity to study and apply these methods in Malaysia (optional). You will have the opportunity to develop an understanding of the key concepts and debates in anthropology via detailed examination of topics including drugs and culture; human mobility; international development; human rights; religionmagic and indigenous matters.

All Monash undergraduate courses require you to have successfully completed a minimum of an Australian Year 12 qualification (or equivalent) and achieve the required academic entry score. Most Monash faculties generally use your most recent studies for admission however other guidelines may apply where your prior qualification may be considered.