Availabilities:
Not offered in 2018
Unit aim
Interrogates the portfolio career model for contemporary musicians. Students examine case studies of career pathways, theoretical underpinnings and provides an opportunity for students to develop strategies for the transition into their preferred career area. This is an advanced level core capstone unit for students completing the Bachelor of Music degree.
Unit content
- Portfolio careers, lifelong learning
- Music industry roles
- Music education pathways
- Business planning
- marketing and promotion
- Funding sources
- Building a portfolio
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
Learning outcomes and graduate attributes
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Identify and analyse current career pathways for musicians and contextualise in relation to broader employment patterns. | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | ||||
| 2 | Design and develop a business proposal related to students' own area of expertise and career aspiration | Intellectual rigour | Lifelong learning | |||||
| 3 | Design, create and evaluate a portfolio presentation relevant to the students' own career trajectory | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | ||||
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
For information regarding Student Contribution Amounts please visit the Student Contribution Amounts.
Commencing 2018 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 1
Fee paying courses
For POSTGRADUATE or UNDERGRADUATE full fee paying courses please check Domestic Postgraduate Fees OR Domestic Undergraduate Fees
International
Please check the international course and fee list to determine the relevant fees.