Building on a Bachelor degree, the one-year full-time Honours qualification strengthens academic ability and equips outstanding graduates to pursue further postgraduate study.
Music Honours embraces the latest practice-led research models to facilitate research for performance students as well as more academic areas.
Students must demonstrate a course average of at least 70% to be considered for an Honours program, and entry is by audition and interview. Honours graduates may go on to the Master of Music and Doctor of Philosophy.
The Course Coordinator for Music Honours is Dr Matthew Styles.
Offering two distinct streams of Dance and Performance Making, the course provides students with an opportunity to focus in depth on a particular research topic of their choice while also receiving further research training at fourth year Honours level. Students can focus on Dance or Performance Making which encompasses devising, directing, writing or design. Students are guided through refining a research topic and undertaking a research project that synthesises practical, theoretical and historical knowledge.
All applicants are required to have successfully completed a Bachelor of Arts (Dance) or Bachelor of Performing Arts or equivalent and are usually required to have a Weighted Average Mark (WAM) of 70% or higher. Each stream varies, however a submission of a written outline of a research proposal is required followed by an interview or audition.
For more information, you can download the Course Flyer or contact Course Coordinator, Dr Renée Newman.
If you would like to know more about WAAPA higher degree courses, please visit the WAAPA Study areas web page.