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Bachelor of Music (Musical Communication)
UndergraduateUSQ-MCM-DEG2025
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Connect and collaborate with the music community
Learn to speak the language of music. You’ll study local and global music culture and practices. Explore a variety of genres and terminology to engage in music communication. Connect deeply with your audience. Become a music educator and ambassador.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- 3 years full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 24
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
- CSP available
- Yes
Bachelor of Music (Musical Communication)
About this degree
Upon completion of this program, graduates will be able to:
- Demonstrate proficiency in practical and theoretical musical processes within popular and contemporary genres through an emerging professional identity as a musician.
- Leverage the skills and knowledge of a professional musician to gain employment in a wide range of occupations within the music profession, working both independently and collaboratively in a broad range of musical contexts with other professionals, in industry, and in education or community.
- Communicate effectively with cultural intelligence to a variety of stakeholders across diverse contexts. Use technology to analyse, manipulate, create and disseminate musical artefacts.
- Evaluate and apply methods, concepts, techniques and theories in the creation of musical and hybrid creative arts projects in a broad range of contexts.
- Research and analyse historical, ideological, critical and ethical perspectives in the creative arts, in both traditional and contemporary cultural and social contexts to explore the role music plays in everyday life.
- UniSQ’s Bachelor of Music focuses on developing you, the musician, as a creative and independent musician and communicator. Learn to speak the languages of music within the Musical Communication major. Explore musical cultures, and engage with relevant theoretical concepts - enabling communication both between musicians, and between musicians and audiences. Create a hybrid arts practice by selecting minors, electives and a second major within Creative Arts or from other disciplines to tailor your desired career path.
Recommended study pattern
Year 1
SCA1001 Persuasive Communication: Presenting Yourself and Your Ideas
MUI1010 Guitar Skills
MUI1013 Decoding Music
SCA1002 Introduction to Creative and Critical Thinking
MUI1011 Digital Composition
MUI1006 Musical Contexts: Popular Music
2 x Second Major courses
Year 2
SCA2001 Cultural Responsibilities and Creative Communities
MUI2002 Popular Songwriting
SCA2002 Arts Business: Making and Managing Your Arts Career
MUI2009 Recording and Music Production
4 x Second Major courses
Year 3
MUI3016 Music Project 1
MUI3017 Music Project 2
MUI3014 Investigating Contemporary Music
MUI3015 Leadership Development for Musicians
MUI3013 Musical Craft
MUI3012 Musical Contexts: Critical Perspectives
2 x Second Major coursesAward requirements
Completion of 24 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.Choose your subjects
Majors
- Musical Communication
- Music Practice
Electives
You may select courses from the available minors to make up your electives in this program.
Exit points
Diploma of Creative Arts StudiesOpen Universities Australia is a not-for-profit organisation. You will not pay any fees for using our services.
Indicative first year fee
$8,948
Indicative total fee $26,844
The amounts shown here are indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 subjects per year.
Fees may vary depending on:
- the subjects you choose
- credit from previous work experience
- your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.
To learn more, go to Fees or contact a student advisor.
As Australia’s #1 university for graduate starting salary (Good Universities Guide, 2022), University of Southern Queensland is the right place to make real progress. Regardless of your education history, your age or your aspirations, at UniSQ you’ll be inspired by quality learning experiences matched with top resources and research. Having delivered distance and online learning for over 40+ years, UniSQ supports you to learn at your own pace—exactly how it suits you.
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Entry requirements
- ATAR - 60.00 or equivalent Attend an audition/interview. If you do not hold an ATAR, applicants can successfully undertake an audition/interview and supply a written statement. Note: It is a requirement that Queensland-based students hold a current positive notice indicating that they are deemed suitable for working with children and young people whilst studying the Bachelor of Music. Further information about the Blue Card or Exemption Card suitability process is available from the Blue Card Services. Proof of meeting the English Language Proficiency requirements is also required.
- Completed VET qualifications can be used to derive an ATAR score or Selection Rank which may be used to meet the Entry Requirements for the program. We encourage you to reach out to the UniSQ team to discuss your options further.
- Work and Life experience may be used to derive an ATAR score or Selection Rank which may be used to meet the Entry Requirements for the program. We encourage you to reach out to the UniSQ team to discuss your options further.
All students are required to satisfy the applicable English language requirements. For entry to the Bachelor of Music (Musical Communication) program, applicants are required to meet the Category 2 English Language Proficiency requirements.
- Exemptions/credit will be assessed based on the UniSQ Credit and Exemption Procedure. Claims for credit for previous study should be submitted prior to or at the time of enrolment. Each claim will be assessed on individual merit in line with UniSQ policy.
Career opportunities
Australian job snapshots
Data sourced from Australian Jobs 2023.
Role | Earnings | Employment change |
|---|---|---|
Actors, Dancers and Other Entertainers | $93K to $120K | Down 30.9% |
Artistic Directors, Media Producers & Presenters | $93K to $120K | Down 0.7% |
Music Professionals | $93K to $120K | Up 11.5% |
Musicians | N/A^ | N/A^ |
Private Tutors and Teachers | N/A^ | Up 9% |
Singers | N/A^ | N/A^ |
^ There is no data available