CART12003 - Music Creation 1

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General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit, you will build upon fundamental music theory and production knowledge and begin to develop skills in the area of songwriting and electronic music composition. You will study a range of musical styles that will inform the development of your own original composition in a chosen genre. You will continue classes in music production and begin to explore advanced audio signal flow and studio practice.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 2
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the unit.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2019

Term 1 - 2019 Profile
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Term 1 - 2020 Profile
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Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 25%
2. Creative work 25%
3. Creative work 25%
4. In-class Test(s) 25%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

Past Exams

Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2020 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 5.00 (on a 5 point Likert scale), based on a 33.33% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Student feedback
Feedback:
 The songwriting components and music production components of this unit could be separated allowing a deeper level of engagement in specialised content.

Recommendation:
 Create a music production major that will allow students the opportunity to more specialise in either music or music production.

Action Taken:
 The BCA is in teach out mode and the new BMUS program will contain a music production minor.
Unit Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Evaluate song writing processes of contemporary popular music styles
  2. Apply song writing processes in the creation of an original song and electronic music composition
  3. Apply appropriate notation to represent your original compositions
  4. Demonstrate an understanding of audio signal flow and multi-microphone techniques in the recording studio.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4
1 - Written Assessment •
2 - Creative work • •
3 - Creative work • •
4 - In-class Test(s) •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4
1 - Communication • •
2 - Problem Solving •
3 - Critical Thinking • • •
4 - Information Literacy •
6 - Information Technology Competence • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10
1 - Written Assessment • • •
2 - Creative work • • •
3 - Creative work • • •
4 - In-class Test(s) • • •