Bachelor
A career in music and performing arts offers an exciting future within the rapidly evolving creative arts industries. Enhance your skills, discover new opportunities, and fast track your creative career through practical and creative learning.
Practitioners in the creative and performing arts industry need to be highly collaborative, combining a variety of technical skills in creative thinking, design, music, performance, production and writing. At the University of Newcastle, you'll learn from leading industry specialists and practitioners to develop your professional skills and networks as you transition into your career.
Study the context of music and the creative and performing arts and their unique value to society at large. Our Bachelor of Music and Performing Arts degree prepares graduates to become performance artists, songwriters, composers, directors, producers, Scenographers, theatre experience makers and teachers, enabling them to take on diverse professional roles across the creative industries.
Your studies in our Music and Performing Arts degree will enable you to successfully navigate and build your career in the music and the performing arts industry. With flexible study options, you can tailor your degree by selecting one or two majors in Music Performance, Songwriting and Production, or the Performing Arts.
The University of Newcastle's music and performing arts degree enables collaboration between performers, writers and producers. It also encourages engagement in live music and stage performance combined with studio production through creative project-based assessment. You will have opportunities to showcase your work in a variety of venues and presentation styles, as well as collaborate on projects with peers across the performing arts, music, creative writing, composition and creative production.
The degree offers a wide range of courses in areas suited to your own interests across the School of Creative Industries and the University. Depending on your chosen major/s, examples of what you will study include -
Students have the option of completing a single or a double major in this program. Students completing a double major can choose either a double major from the Music and Performing Arts major options (Double Major Pathway B); or one of the Music and Performing Arts major and one School of Creative Industries (SOCI) Major (Double Major Pathway C) from the options listed in the handbook.
The most ideal combinations of majors that reflect industry creative practice for Music and Performing Arts Graduates are listed below:
Double Major Pathway B
Studying the Bachelor of Music and Performing Arts at the University of Newcastle prepares you for a career as a professional musician, performing artist, theatre maker, composer, songwriter, music producer, theatre maker, studio teacher as well as opens avenues to work in the broader creative industries.