Bachelor of Music

Rules Variation Summary for 2025

Summary of Changes for 2025

Implications for current Bachelor of Music students

Program of Study

  • Core units have been amended to 36cps
  • Music Studies major must be completed
  • One or two minors can be completed
  • Elective units are 12 to 36cps depending on how many minors are chosen
  • No unit code changes

Minors to choose from are:

  • Musicology
  • Music Practice
  • Instrumental/vocal Studies
  • Digital Music, Media and Composition
Nil

Rules Variation Summary for 2024

Summary of Changes for 2024

Implications for current Bachelor of Music students

Admission rules have been updatedNil

Rules Variation Summary for 2023

Summary of Changes for 2023

Implications for current Bachelor of Music students

Program of study:

New Major - Performance

Note new major

Rules Variation Summary for 2022

Summary of Changes for 2022

Implications for current Bachelor of Music students

Program of Study

  • Core units have been amended from 30 to 24cps
  • Elective units have increased the maximum from 42cp to 48cp
  • MUSI101 has been removed
  • OORA100 has been removed
  • MUSI140 has been added
  • MUSI201 has been removed
  • MUSI301 has been removed
  • MUSI310 has been removed

Three majors have been introduced:

  • Musicology
  • Composition and Production
  • Performance

Unit title changes:

  • MUSI110 changed to Music Theory and Analysis 1
  • MUSI121 changed to Music performance: Processes, Creativity and Audiences
  • MUSI208 changed to Composition Structure and Instrumentation;
  • MUSI210 changed to Music Theory and Analysis 2
  • MUSI321 changed to Music Performance: Production, Media and Innovation
  • MUSI338 changed to Music in the Modern Age and Beyond
  • MUSI340 changed to Music Major Project (moving from 6cps to 12cps - capstone unit)
  • MUSI341 changed to Medieval and Early Modern Music
  • MUSI343 changed to Music in the Age of Empires and Nations
  • MUSI361 changed to Creative Music production

Unit code changes:

  • MUSI341 to MUSI236
  • MUSI343 to MUSI237

Note unit/unit code and unit title changes.

Rules Variation Summary for 2021

Summary of Changes for 2021

Implications for current Bachelor of Music students

Program of Study

  • Core units have been amended from 54cps to 30cps
  • MUSI129 has been deleted
  • MUSI229 has have been deleted
  • MUSI140 retitled Fundamentals of Creative Music Practice
  • MUSI160 retitled Digital Music and Media Fundamentals
  • MUSI240 retitled Collaborative Creative Music Practice
  • MUSI340 retitled Creative Music Practice Project

Group A

  • Group A has been amended from 6-12cps to 12-24cps
  • MUSI201 has been added
  • MUSI210 has been added

Group C

  • Group C has an amended to credit points from 36 to 48cps.

Group D:

  • MUSI236 Western Music History: Beginnings to Baroque recoded MUSI341
  • MUSIC237 Western History: 18th and 19th Centuries. Recoded MUSI343
  • MUSI131 has been added
  • MUSI319 has been added
  • WRIT101 has been added

Note unit/unit code and unit title changes.

Rules Variation Summary for 2020

Summary of Changes for 2020

Implications for current Bachelor of Music students

Exit Pathways

An Exit Pathway of the Diploma in Music has been added.

Program of Study

Group C Listed Units:

  • MUSI337  deleted

Credit points have been adjusted:

  • Group C Listed Units changed from   36-72 cps to 36-66 cps
  • Elective Units changed from 0-36   cps to 0-42 cps

Note unit changes.

Continuing students may complete under their current rules, or apply to transfer to 2020 rules.

Rules Variation Summary for 2019

Summary of Changes for 2019

Implications for current Bachelor of Music students

Program of Study:

Group C Listed units:

  • Title correction to Western Music History: 20th and   21st Centuries

Group D Listed units:

  • MUSI229 Instrumental/Vocal Studies 4 has been added.

Note unit and unit title changes.

Current students may include MUSI229 under Group D if they wish (and they are eligible to enrol in the unit) or transfer to the latest rules.

Rules Variation Summary for 2018

Summary of Changes for 2018

Implications for current Bachelor of Music students

Program of Study

Group C Listed Units:

  • MUSI330 has been withdrawn
  • MUSI334, MUSSI335 and MUSI336 have been withdrawn and replaced by MUSI337
  • MUSI339 and MUSI366 have been added

Group D Listed Units: credit points have changed from 0-24cps to 0-36cps

  • ENC303 code and title changed to WRIT303 Research in Writing

Note unit, code and title changes

Students who have completed units which are no longer offered will be credited towards their course.

Continuing students may complete any added units within their program of study, subject to overall course rules.

Rules Variation Summary for 2017

Summary of Changes for 2017

Implications for current Bachelor of Music students

Core Units:

  • Credit points changed from 60 cps to 54 cps
  • MUSI130 has been added
  • MUSI301 and MUSI310 have been withdrawn, and moved to Listed Units
  • MUSI237 title changed to Western Music History: 18th and 19th Centuries

Group A Listed Units:

  • Credit points change from 12-24 cps to 6-12 cps
  • MUSI130 and MUSI135 have been withdrawn

Group B Listed Units:

  • Credit points change from 12-30 cps to 12-36 cps
  • MUSI235 has been added

Group C Listed Units:

  • Credit points changed from 24-60 cps to 36-72 cps
  • MUSI301, MUSI310 and MUSI390 have been added

Group D Listed Units:

  • MM110 titile changed to Fundamentals of Marketing
  • MUSI119 and MUSI129 have been added, and must be undertaken in partnership with an approved host institution that has an established agreement with UNE
  • THEA110 title changed to Ideas of Theatre I
  • THEA202 and THEA302 have been withdrawn

Note credit point changes

Note unit and unit title changes

Students who have completed units which are no longer offered will be credited towards their course.

Continuing students may complete under their current rules, or apply to transfer to 2017 rules.

Rules Variation Summary for 2016

Summary of Changes for 2016

Implications for current Bachelor of Music students

Listed Units:

  • Group B – And complete 12-24 cps changed to 12-30 cps
  • MUSI253 has been added

Note unit change

Note credit point change Group B

These course rule changes only apply to students who commence or transfer to 2016 course rules

Rules Variation Summary for 2015 

Summary of Changes for 2015

Implications for current Bachelor of Music students

Core Units:

  • Credit points changed from 36 cps to 60 cps
  • MUSI101 title changed to Aural Skills 1
  • MUSI205, 206, 207 and 209 have been withdrawn
  • MUSI208 moved to Listed Units Group B
  • MUSI110, 160, 201, 210, 236, 237, 310 and OORA100 have been added
  • MUSI301 moved from Listed Units to Core Units and title changed to Aural Skills 3

Listed Units:

  • Changed from two parts - 'Complete 60-84 credit points from the following units:' and 'Complete 0-24 cps from the following units:'
  • To – Group A: Complete 12-24 credit points from the following units: MUSI 121, 130, 135, 140
  • Group B: Complete 12-24 credit points from the following units:
    MUSI 208, 221, 240, 260
  • Group C: Complete 24-60 credit points from the following units:
    MUSI 321, 330, 334, 335, 336, 338, 340, 353, 361, 364
  • Group D: Complete 0-24 credit points from the following units: ARTS301, 302; ENCO303; MM110; THEA110, 202, 302
    • ENCO303 title changed to Research and Writing Across Disciplines
  • MUSI 331, 332, 333, 349, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 360 have been withdrawn

Elective Units:

  • Credit points changed from 24 cps to 0-36 cps

Students should refer to the email sent in October by the Course Coordinator outlining what each student need to complete in order to satisfy the course requirements.

Note unit and/or title changes

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course

All currently enrolled students will be encouraged to transfer to the 2015 course rules and will be offered individual academic advice by the course coordinator.

These course rule changes only apply to students who commence or transfer to 2015 course rules

Rules Variation Summary for 2014

Summary of Changes for 2014

Implications for current Bachelor of Music students

  • There are no changes for 2014

Nil

Rules Variation Summary for 2013

Summary of Changes for 2013

Implications for current Bachelor of Music students

Listed Units:

  • MUSI301 and MUSI360 have been added
  • MUSI358 has been withdrawn
  • ECT303 code changed to ENCO303 Research in Writing

Note unit and/or title changes

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course

Rules Variation Summary for 2012

Summary of Changes for 2012

Implications for current Bachelor of Music students

The course has been completely restructured. Core Units have been reduced. Listed Units have been added and Elective Units have remained unchanged.

Core Units:

  • Credit points changed from 120 cps to 36 cps
  • Complete the following units –
  • MUSI101, MUSI205, MUSI206, MUSI207, MUSI208 and MUSI209

Listed Units:

  • Complete 60-84 cps from the following units –
  • ARTS301, ARTS302, MUSI330, MUSI331, MUSI332, MUSI333, MUSI349, MUSI351, MUSI352, MUSI353, MUSI354, MUSI355, MUSI356, MUSI357
  • MUSI332 title changed to The Past is a Foreign Culture: European Music and the Enlightenment
  • And complete 0-24 cps from the following units –
  • ECT303, MM110, MUSI358, THEA110 and THEA302

Note unit and/or title changes

These course rule changes only apply to students who commence or transfer to 2012 course rules

Rules Variation Summary for 2011

Summary of Changes for 2011

Implications for current Bachelor of Music students

  • MUSI109 code changed to MUSI209
  • MUSI205 title changed to Foundation Studies in Musical Performance
  • MUSI207 title changed to Foundations in Music Craft
  • MUSI208 title changed to Foundations in Music Composition
  • MUSI349 title changed to Notation and Musical Performance
  • MUSI351 title changed to Improvisation and Musical Performance
  • MUSI352 title changed to History, Culture and Musical Performance
  • MUSI353 title changed to Ensemble Performance in Music
  • MUSI354 title changed to Composition/Craft: Australian Music
  • MUSI355 title changed to Composition/Craft: Technology and Music
  • MUSI356 title changed to Composition/Craft: Music, Numbers and Patterns
  • MUSI357 title changed to Composition/Craft: Music Loops and Sound Producers
  • MUSI358 title changed to Song and the Voice

Note unit code and title changes

Rules Variation Summary for 2010

Summary of Changes for 2010

Implications for current Bachelor of Music students

  • MUSI105 is now MUSI205 Foundation Studies in Music Performance I
  • MUSI106 is now MUSI206 Foundation Studies in Music Performance II
  • MUSI107 is now MUSI207 Foundations in Music Creativity I
  • MUSI108 is now MUSI208 Foundations in Music Creativity II

Note unit code and/or title changes

Currently enrolled students who have not already completed MUSI105 or MUSI106 will undertake MUSI205 or MUSI206 respectively