The B.A. (Music) degree offers a wide choice of modules, enabling students to prepare for a variety of careers. These include teaching at schools, music centres or privately; performing as a soloist at intermediate level, in an orchestra or ensemble, as a session musician; and acting as a choral director and music advisor.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 3 year full time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subject:
- Historical music studies
- Systematic music studies
- Applied music studies
Second year subjects:
- Applied music studies
- Historical music studies
- Systematic music studies
- Music education and practice
- Jazz theory, improvisation and arrangement
- Music technology
- Composition and orchestration
- Instrumental subject teaching
- Choral directing
Third year subjects:
- Applied music studies
- Historical music studies
- Systematic music studies
- Music education and practice
- Jazz theory, improvisation and arrangement
- Music technology
- Composition and orchestration
- Instrumental subject teaching
- Choral directing
- Music management
- Practical teaching
Careers: choral director, composer, music educator, conductor, musician.
Source: www.ufs.ac.za