MUSI470-25W (C) Whole Year 2025

Creative Practice

60 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 16 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 24 August 2025

Description

Students prepare a portfolio of representative creative work. The course is geared towards musicians whose creative practice spans more than one discipline, for example composer-performers, singer-songwriters, songwriter-producers. Students wishing to explore music making in combination with other art forms, for example film or visual art, can also take the course as long as an appropriate supervisory team can be found.

Students prepare a portfolio of representative creative work. The course is geared towards musicians whose creative practice spans more than one discipline, for example composer-performers, singer-songwriters, songwriter-producers. Students wishing to explore music making in combination with other art forms, for example film or visual art, can also take the course as long as an appropriate supervisory team can be found.

Learning Outcomes

  • Preparation of a portfolio of representative creative work (compositions, songs, performances,
    recordings, installation work, or any combination thereof).
  • Knowledge of contemporary trends relevant to the student's creative practice.
  • Ability to articulate an approach to creative practice and provide a context for one's work in
    written or verbal form (e.g. program notes, pre-concert talk, radio interview).

      • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

      Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

      Employable, innovative and enterprising

      Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

      Biculturally competent and confident

      Students will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its relevance to their area of study and/or their degree.

      Engaged with the community

      Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.

      Globally aware

      Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Prerequisites

MUSA398 Capstone Project and permission of the Head of School

Timetable Note

Supervisory meetings: 1 hour / week

Student workload (600 hours) will be allocated to:
• 24 hours attending one-to-one meetings with supervisor(s)
• 36 hours attending composition and / or performance workshops
• 540 hours self-directed study

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Reuben de Lautour

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Portfolio 100% Portfolio


Please check the course LEARN page for further details and updates.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $3,994.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Creative and Digital Arts .

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