Bachelor
The Bachelor of Music at SAE is a comprehensive program offering technical skills in songwriting, composition, music production, and industry knowledge. Students can specialize in areas like songwriting, electronic music, music industry, and creative musicianship, with opportunities for real-world projects and industry placements.
The most comprehensive of SAE's music courses, our Bachelor of Music will see you develop in-demand technical skills in songwriting, composition, music business and industry, stagecraft, recording techniques, electronic music production and studio music production.
Building on the core skills of a working industry professional, you'll choose from a pool of electives and tailor your degree to your specific interests. We offer units that specialise in:
No matter which area of music you choose to focus on, you'll tackle real-world project briefs with SAE students from other disciplines and create a portfolio of work fit to impress your future employers.
Plus, our bachelor degree in music features Work Integrated Learning (student placement), ensuring you graduate with practical industry experience under your belt.
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The Bachelor of Music is broken up into three distinct stages, each designed to develop different skills. Building on the core skills of a working music professional, the Bachelor of Music at SAE allows you to choose from a pool of electives throughout your study, investigating focused areas of contemporary music including electronic music, songwriting & music production, music industry and creative musicianship. The Bachelor's degree allows you to further develop your specialisation skills and prepares you for entering into the industry through your major project and portfolio and work placement.
In Stage I, students will undertake a number of foundational modules which will give students the essential technical skills and knowledge not only relevant to the chosen discipline area but also a second area of interest. Alongside this, students develop an understanding of the creative process, project design and management, core communication practices in academic and industry contexts, ownership, distribution, and copyright in the creative industries. Students will also undertake deliberate practice and weekly rituals including reflective journaling that will assist students in identifying the skills, knowledge, and behaviours required to develop their creative media practice throughout their studies.
In Stage II we show students how their work contributes to and interacts with broader culture and media practice through common modules and studio modules. This knowledge will enable students to work with a variety of other disciplines and artists and expand their potential on the global stage. Within Stage II, students will work closely with facilitators to identify key learning outcomes needed to complete modules. Deliberate and reflective practice assist students through their studio modules, playing an active reflection role throughout the learning journey. Student projects within Stage II are reflective of real-world scenarios, containing real-world dilemmas - societal issues that require solutions; authentic audiences -simulating professional practice and constraints- understanding how a range of constraints can impact projects within professional practice. Students complete a number of real-world projects with students in their chosen major discipline, the Creative Industries student group, and wider disciplines at SAE. At the end of each studio module, facilitators will arrange exhibitions either internal or public-facing for students to showcase work. Stage II includes options for students to take 2 discipline specific studio units, or 1 discipline studio unit and a Creative Industries studio, focused on industry led interdisciplinary practice.
Stage III of the Bachelor of Music is designed to prepare students for entry-level professional industry roles and to undertake postgraduate studies. Stage III develops a student's capacity to work with the collaborative and geographically diverse world of creative media practice. To prepare students for this, SAE project supervisors and facilitators work with Stage III students to develop sophisticated, collaborative creative media projects which meet the professional standards of the industry. These final projects are done in collaboration with all other SAE disciplines, either on campus or remotely, enabling students to pursue their most ambitious and creative portfolio pieces yet. To support this, students in Stage III learn advanced interdisciplinary project creation skills, and experience remote, collaborative practice with their peers across the SAE campus network. They broaden their skills and knowledge through studying creative media marketing and business principles, storytelling, engage in a focused mentorship and finally, gain industry feedback on their transferable skills through the finalisation of SAE's creative industries Work Integrated Learning Program.
SAE may recognise your prior learning and may grant credit towards satisfying the requirements for a higher-level program. This is applied where previous learning is considered equivalent to the content and learning outcomes prescribed for units within the program. For full details, please refer to SAE's policy on recognition of prior learning and credit transfers.
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