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Contemporary Music Studies

Unit of study table

This page was first published on 13 November 2025 and was last amended on 18 February 2026.
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Unit of studyCredit pointsA: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites
C: Corequisites N: Prohibition

Core

MUSC1611
The Studio for Songwriters 1
6A Students enrolling in this unit of study must have some experience with writing their own original songs in a contemporary music style
P MUSC1401

Electives

CMPN1612
New Music, New Thinking
6Ìý
CMPN2510
Scoring and Arranging for the Screen
6Ìý
JAZZ1021
Jazz History 1
3A Students enrolling in this unit are expected to have strong overall music skills including notation, reading, aural skills, music research and analysis and jazz performance (excluding non-jazz students)
JAZZ1022
Jazz History 2
3P JAZZ1021
JAZZ3631
Music Industry Skills
6Ìý
MUSC1300
Popular Music Ensemble
3P MUSC1402
MUSC1506
Classical Music: A Cultural History
6A The ability to follow a musical score while listening to the music and knowledge of elementary music theory
MUSC1507
Sounds, Screens, Speakers: Music and Media
6Ìý
MUSC1604
Music, Health and Wellbeing
6Ìý
MUSC2614
Composition Workshop
6A The ability to play a musical instrument and/or make music with digital devices.
P 18 credit points of 1000-level units
MUSC2616
Noise/Sound/Music: Engaging Sonic Worlds

6Ìý
MUSC2638
Jazz Riots and Revolutions

6Ìý
MUSC2645
Psychology of Music
6Ìý
MUSC2648
Words and Music : Song Across Cultures
6Ìý
MUSC2653
Introduction to Digital Music Techniques
6Ìý
MUSC2654
Popular Music
6Ìý
MUSC2663
Survey of Film Music
6Ìý
MUSC2666
Global Sound: Drum and Bass, Rhythm and Soul
6Ìý
MUSC2672
Australian Popular Music
6Ìý
MUSC2695
Popular Music Theory
6P MUSC1503 or MUSC1504 or MUSC1501 or MUSC2693 or MCGY1008 or JAZZ1621 or JAZZ1019
MUSC3603
Advanced Digital Music Techniques
6P MUSC2653 or (CMPN1013 and CMPN1014)
MUSC3610
Musical Traditions and Globalization

6Ìý
MUSC3629
Music and Everyday Life
6Ìý
MUSC3630
Popular Music and the Moving Image
6Ìý
MUSC3631
Music in Public: Performance and Power
6Ìý
MUSC3639
Music Journalism
6Ìý
MUSC3640
Rhythms and Sounds of Latin America

6Ìý
MUSC3699
Understanding Music: Modes of Hearing
6Ìý

Post-publication amendments

DateOriginal publicationPost-publication amendment
12/12/2025Prerequisites (P) for MUSC3603 published as:
"P MUSC2653 or CMPN1013 or MUED1002"
Prerequisites (P) for MUSC3603 amended to:
"P MUSC2653 or (CMPN1013 and CMPN1014)"
18/2/2026

Assumed Knowledge (A)Ìýfor MUSC2653 published as:

N MUSC3603

Assumed Knowledge (A)Ìýfor MUSC2653 removed.