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Postgraduate and Honours Study

Postgraduate and Honours Study

Which Degree Should You Take?

UNE Music offers the following awards at Honours and Higher Research Degree levels:

Honours

  • B.A. (Hons) in Composition, Ethnomusicology or Musicology. In two parts - course work and thesis/composition.
  • B.Mus (Hons) in Composition, Community Music, Ethnomusicology, Musicology or Performance. In two parts - course work and "thesis". For this degree the "thesis" will consist of major and minor components.

Higher Research Degrees

  • Ph.D. in either Ethnomusicology or Musicology and by thesis only.

Honours Degrees

BA (Hons)

BMus (Hons)

PhD

Supervision from Academic Staff

All academic staff of Music are active researchers in their particular areas of interest/expertise. Each staff member has certain areas of primary research expertise, and it is within these areas that most postgraduate activity is encouraged/concentrated. The primary research areas of staff are:

Musicology: 18th and 19th Century Western Art Music, Music and Visual Culture Dr Alan Davison
Ethnomusicology / Japanese Music Associate Professor Hugh de Ferranti
Composition / Improvisation / Performance / Intercultural Music Dr Jenny Game-Lopata