Bachelor of Music with Honours

If you're committed to attaining the level of musical professionalism today's music industry demands, consider extending your studies by undertaking an honours year. A 'capstone' to your formal education, our fully online Bachelor of Music with Honours is an opportunity for music and musicteaching graduates to pursue specialist music research and creative portfolio projects that will unlock many employment and research opportunities. It will extend your artistic and intellectual range, sharpen your research capabilities, augment your analytical abilities, and give you the opportunity to build high-level personal and professional skills. These invaluable attributes will equip you with transferable skills that are highly sought after in today's rapidly changing job market, as well as prepare you for postgraduate study.
Undertaking our fully online music honours program prepares you for success in the music profession by giving you the opportunity to drill deep into your specialist areas. You will work with a supervisor to pursue guided research in musicology, performance studies, popular music studies, or creative music-making principles and techniques such as composition or music production. You will complete your studies by presenting a dissertation or research-informed exegesis and creative portfolio in your area of specialisation.
The Bachelor of Music with Honours course prepares you for postgraduate study and establishes a sound basis for a successful career in the music industry.

Entry is based on a bachelor qualification in music, education (Secondary Music) from UNE, or equivalent, and specific GPA and credit point requirements. English language requirements must also be met. If you are an international applicant who wants to study on campus in Australia: You will need to meet both the Academic and English Language Requirements to gain admission into this course. Meeting academic requirements means we review what you have already studied to see if you have the results needed for admission to your preferred course. You can apply for this course if you meet all of the following entry requirements: You have completed one of the following UNE qualifications, or an equivalent relevant qualification (AQF Level 7 or overseas equivalent): Bachelor of Music Bachelor of Education (Secondary Music) You have achieved a minimum Grade Point Average (GPA) of 5.5 in your relevant qualification. You have achieved a minimum result of Distinction for at least 18 credit points of 300-level units in Music. You have completed a minimum of 48 credit points of study in Music. You intend to study a music topic for which UNE can provide adequate supervision. Students must submit a research proposal of 1000 words, containing a written, cogent, proposal of the topic, which must include a thesis statement, and/or a problem to be solved, and/or a question to be answered, and/or a line of argument to be explored. Students must have the support of a suitably qualified supervisor who is a member of the relevant discipline or approved by the discipline and Head of School (or delegate). Please note: Admission to this course is determined by the Head of School (or delegate) on the recommendation of the discipline convenor. If you are admitted on this basis, you will be eligible for admission under standard entry. An International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Academic overall score of at least 6.0 with no sub-band less than 5.5*; or Equivalent Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score of at least 213 in the computer-based test or at least 79 in the internet-based test with no less than 22 in the written component.