Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music (BA BMus)

Program Code
BABMU

Program Faculty
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Academic Year
2018

These Program Rules should be read in conjunction with the University's policies (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies).

Overview

This is a double degree program consisting of a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music. This qualification enables students to pursue a broad range of interests in music and the arts in a self-designed, integrated academic program spanning 5 years. Consult the separate entries for the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Music degrees to obtain full details. Students in the first year of the program focus on music courses, majoring in Classical Voice, Music Composition, Music Education and Pedagogy, Music Performance - Classical, Music Performance - Jazz, Musicology, Popular Music, or Sonic Arts. The remaining four years combine courses from the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music programs.

The Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music double degree is an AQF Level 7 qualification with a standard full-time duration of 5 years.

Conditions

Condition of Admission
Audition/interview/musicianship test: All applicants must attend and pass an audition / interview and a musicianship test (except Musicology applicants, who will be required to sit the musicianship test only). Applicants may audition for more than one instrument or major.
Deferral: Students who have deferred their program will be required to reaudition/reinterview before enrolment, where a audition/interview was a condition of admission.

Condition of Continuing Enrolment
Interruption of program: Students must apply for permission from the Head of School before taking a Leave of Absence. Any extension of the leave without approval will result in the loss of place in the program but an application may be made to be re-admitted to the program subject to the admission procedures in place at the time.
Re-audition to enrol in performance course after a break: A student who is eligible in any year to enrol in a relevant performance course and who fails to do so, and who wishes to enrol in one of these courses in a subsequent year, will be required to re-audition and to reach a minimum standard for enrolment in the course in question before being authorised to enrol in that course.

Condition of Enrolment
External performances / engagements: The Head of School will determine whether students shall acknowledge the name of the School or its staff in any public performance / engagement in which they participate.

Academic Program Rules for Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music

There shall be a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music.

Qualification Requirements

To qualify for the double degree of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music, the student must complete satisfactorily a program of study consisting of the following requirements with a combined total of not less than 120 units.
 

Core Courses

  • Bachelor of Arts Requirements

    To satisfy the requirements for Bachelor of Arts Requirements students must complete courses to the value of 48 units.

    To qualify for the degree of Bachelor of Arts students must complete the following:

    1. Level I courses not exceeding 12 units
    2. An Arts major to the value of 24 units, or 33 units if doing a major in Psychology.
    3. Elective courses to the value of 24 units, comprising Level II and III elective courses to the value of at least 18 units selected from the Faculty of Arts (excluding courses offered by the Elder Conservatorium of Music). Students may complete an Arts minor to the value of 18 units in lieu of elective courses.
    4. The major and optional minor are to be taken from different disciplines.

    Arts Major

    Courses to the value of at least 24 units from the following:

    Students must satisfy the requirement for a major in accordance with the relevant Academic Program Rules for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

    Elective Courses

    Courses to the value of 24 units from the following:

    Elective courses chosen from those available in the Faculty of Arts in accordance with the relevant Academic Program Rules for the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Note: Students may complete an Arts minor to the value of 18 units in lieu of elective courses.

  • Bachelor of Music Requirements

    To qualify for the degree of Bachelor of Music a student shall satisfactorily complete courses to the total value of 72 units, with at least 18 units at Level III in accord with the Academic Program Rules for the Bachelor of Music. A student shall undertake one of the following specialisations:
    Music Performance - Classical
    Classical Voice
    Music Performance - Jazz
    Music Composition
    Musicology
    Music Education and Pedagogy
    Popular Music
    Sonic Arts

    Core Courses

    Courses to the value of 3 units from the following:

    Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value
    ARTS 1007 The Enquiring Mind 3