Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music - Indonesian Studies

Monash University

Polish your talent for music theory and practice while exploring the arts humanities and social sciences.You will receive a rigorous, high-quality tertiary music education, specialising in performance, composition or creative music technology. In Arts you can draw flexibly from a rich repertoire of 40 majors and minors. You may like to concentrate on the history, culture or language of the music youre playing, or add to your career flexibility with music through theatre, performance, film or journalism. Arts is built around deeply enriching experiences, and via your elective units, offers you four Signature elements through which to develop your unique graduate profile: Global immersion, Intercultural expertise, Professional experience or Innovation capability. This course leads to two separate degrees: Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music. You will gain all the benefits of each degree course (see Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Music) and be fully equipped to pursue a career in either field separately or to combine the two in your chosen work. As a graduate with a degree in Arts and another in Music you could pursue a career in the arts sector, performance, music instruction or composing, or in interdisciplinary roles, such as production, arts management, policy or coaching.The Indonesian studies major develops in you the linguistic competence to negotiate commonly-encountered interactions in Indonesian, and follows that by equipping you with the skills necessary to perform successfully more complicated linguistic tasks such as translation, interpretation and commentary. You will acquire cultural skills by exploring a diversity of linguistic varieties, media and performance styles, and by developing fluency in the codes of politeness that enable successful communication in Indonesian settings. Varieties of Indonesian are studied as tools for successful communication as well as ways of understanding Indonesian diversity. Throughout the major, you will acquire research skills that prepare you for research connected with Indonesia in a disciplinary field of your choice, or in Indonesian area studies. You will acquire the linguistic and cultural skills that enable you to work in private and public settings where Indonesia expertise is required.

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