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Unit of Study MUSC3008 - The Portfolio Career Musician (2025)

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  • Pre-requisites

    Students enrolling in this unit should have completed units equivalent to 144 credit points (typically 12 units) in MUS code units.

  • Enrolment information

    This is a capstone unit that integrates the knowledge you have developed during your degree. 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

  •  Musician Careers.
     
  •  Professional Capabilities, Networks and Communities of Practice.
     
  •  Case Studies: Freelance musician and music educator.
     
  •  Business mindset and planning.
     
  •  Marketing, promotion and funding.
     
  •  Building a portfolio.

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Coomera
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Lismore
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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.

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

Identify and analyse current career pathways for musicians and contextualise in relation to broader employment patterns.

Design and develop a business proposal related to students' own area of expertise and career aspiration

Design, create and evaluate a portfolio presentation relevant to the students' own career trajectory

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