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Hone your musical abilities while delving into arts, humanities, and social sciences. This program offers an exceptional higher education in music, with specializations in performance, composition, or creative music technology. The Arts component provides flexible options across 40 diverse majors and minors. You might focus on the historical, cultural, or linguistic aspects of your musical practice, or enhance your career prospects by combining music with theater, film, or journalism. The Arts curriculum features transformative learning experiences and four distinctive Signature elements to shape your graduate identity: Global immersion, Intercultural expertise, Professional experience, or Innovation capability. You'll earn dual degrees: Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music, gaining comprehensive qualifications for careers in either field or their intersection. Potential career paths include arts administration, performance, music education, composition, or interdisciplinary roles in production, arts policy, or coaching.
Film and screen studies examine cinema and television through historical, textual, and critical lenses, encompassing traditional and emerging media formats. The curriculum explores diverse cinematic traditions including Australian, Asian, and European films, Hollywood's evolution, avant-garde cinema, documentaries, Australian television, popular TV genres, digital media, and video production. This major employs multiple analytical frameworks such as formal analysis, semiotics, psychoanalytic theory, institutional studies, reception theory, and cultural studies. You'll investigate how ideology intersects with cultural representation regarding gender, race, and class, while exploring the relationship between traditional screen media and emerging technologies. Consider complementing your film studies with related disciplines like media studies, sociology, history, literature, theater, performance, or language studies.