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Unit of Study MUS73001 - The Portfolio Career Musician (2020)

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  • Enrolment information

    This is a capstone unit that integrates the knowledge you have developed during your degree. Students enrolling in this unit should have completed units equivalent to 144 credit points (typically 12 units) in MUS code units. The focus of the assessment is to prepare you for a career in music.

Unit description

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 Contemporary Music degree.  

Unit content

  • Portfolio careers, lifelong learning
  • Music industry roles
  • Music education pathways
  • Business planning
  • marketing and promotion
  • Funding sources
  • Building a portfolio

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Coomera
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Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

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.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 Identify and analyse current career pathways for musicians and contextualise in relation to broader employment patterns.
2 Design and develop a business proposal related to students' own area of expertise and career aspiration
3 Design, create and evaluate a portfolio presentation relevant to the students' own career trajectory

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Identify and analyse current career pathways for musicians and contextualise in relation to broader employment patterns.
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
  2. Design and develop a business proposal related to students' own area of expertise and career aspiration
    • GA1:
    • GA5:
  3. Design, create and evaluate a portfolio presentation relevant to the students' own career trajectory
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:

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