The Musicology minor gives students the opportunity to develop an understanding of the cultural, historical, theoretical, and analytical situation of music across a variety of cultures and historical periods. Students complete two compulsory first-year courses which introduce the notion of inquiry-based musical scholarship, both of the traditional academic kind, and also purely musical modes of inquiry such as interpretation, improvisation, transcription and analysis. Thereafter, a wide range of academic music courses are available to students for them to complete the required 12 units of later-year music study.

Learning Outcomes

Students completing the Musicology minor will have the knowledge and skills to:

1. Demonstrate skills and knowledge of the languages, forms, materials, and techniques of a range of musics;
2. Develop and evaluate musical, cultural, and artistic ideas, concepts and processes by thinking creatively, critically and reflectively, and through engaging with genuine scholarship and research;
3. Interpret, communicate and present ideas, problems and arguments to do with music and the arts in modes suited to a range of audiences, informed by inquiry and scholarship;
4. Recognise and reflect on social, cultural and ethical issues, and apply local and, international perspectives to practice in music.