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Undergraduate Programs
With the School's excellent facilities and staff who are engaged with current developments in the media and performing arts and arts industries, your study in the School of English Media and Performing Arts will be exciting and challenging. You will have the opportunity to analyse, create, produce and perform, as you study texts, contemporary culture, aesthetics, and the history of music, cinema, dance, media or theatre and performance.
The School boasts professional-level theatres, dance and music studios, a range of rehearsal spaces, a cinema, film production facilities, sound and animation studios, and up-to-date multimedia production laboratories. So a significant component of creative production is available in programs taught in the School.
The School offers the following programs:
Bachelor of Arts
NB: Students who commenced their BA program before 2009 should refer to program 3400.
Specialisations (majors) are offered in:
English: takes a broad interpretation of the field of English studies as well as an interdisciplinary approach, with literary studies linked with music, science, the visual arts, popular culture, theatre, biography, history, philosophy and linguistics.
Media, Culture and Technology: provides students with a progressive understanding of the social, cultural and phenomenological impacts of media and communications technologies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Film Studies: provides students with a sophisticated understanding of the history and contemporary significance of film as a medium and cinema as an institution. The study of film is set in a broader context of screen cultures and audio-visual industries both in Australia and globally.
Theatre and Performance Studies: looks at how the theatrical and performing arts reflect and shape our sense of who we are. It studies theatre and performance history and current trends, allowing students to engage deeply with contemporary theatre and performance culture.
Music: this significant and useful program which gives access to higher degrees in music consists of two possible major sequences; one for students who have a fair degree of musical experience and a second stream open to students with little or no formal musical training.
Bachelor of Music
Enables students to develop their musicianship and their musical skills in general in preparation for professional work in music-related industries. Students can combine music studies with substantial work in a related discipline such as theatre and performance studies, film studies, dance, languages, English, history, or philosophy.
Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Arts
A four-year combined degree which augments the full professional training of the BMus with an extensive range of other options within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. The Arts degree offers a wide range of options for specialist studies in two or three other areas within the Faculty.
Bachelor of Media (Communication and Journalism)
This program comprises a core focus on media theory, institutions and media innovation, opportunities for specialist learning in Communication and Journalism, including significant practical experience in text production and text analysis, as well as a deep contextual and analytical understanding of media.
Bachelor of Media (Screen and Sound)
This program comprises a core focus on media theory, history, institutions and media innovation, practical skills in video and sound production, theoretical skills in contemporary media, with a particular focus on film theory.
Bachelor of Media (Media Production)
This program comprises a core focus on media theory, institutions and media innovation, opportunities for specialist learning in contemporary digital media production, including significant practical experience in established and emerging computer-based media technologies, as well as a deep contextual and analytical understanding of media.
Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education (Dance)
A program centred on dance studies, history and aesthetics combined with studies of education aimed at equipping graduates to teach dance in the NSW education system and more generally.
Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Education
Enables the student to secure a professional teaching qualification recognised in all states and a degree of competence in music which is also a foundation for other musical careers.
Diploma of Music
Students may take this program either concurrently with their bachelor program (with the approval of their program authority) or as a free standing part-time program in any case where an applicant already holds an undergraduate degree (with approval from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences).
You can find more detailed information on each of the programs here, and information about how to apply for any of these degree programs here.
