Faculty of Arts

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Music Studies

Programme Director: Prof David Y S Chung

The Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Music Studies is a four-year full-time self-funded top-up degree programme offered by the HKBU Department of Music in collaboration with the CIE. The proposed programme is designed to offer a broad yet substantive education to students, equipping them with substantial musicianship, theoretical and historical knowledge, performance and teaching experience, and creative approaches to applying their musical skills in society. It also trains those students in areas of conducting, entrepreneurship, music advocacy, and community outreach.

The aims of the programme are:

a)	Delivering broad-based music training in performance and pedagogy with special emphasis on music fundamentals, creativity and leadership, and collaborative experience;
b)	Helping and nurturing students to train themselves to create, realize and express their own artistic concepts, and to project their musical ideas fluently and confidently in a wide variety of contexts;
c)	Guiding and encouraging students develop into articulate advocates of the performing arts and potential leaders in the profession;
d)	Developing students’ awareness of the role of the musician in society, and encouraging their active contribution to and participation in the artistic life of the community.

Requirements

The top-up Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Music Studies is a 66-unit programme comprising Major Core Courses (54 units) and the Major Elective Courses (12 units). As the programme is designed for Associate Degree/Higher Diploma graduates, they will be admitted directly into the third year of study. HKBU Associate Degree graduates in the relevant concentration will be considered to have fulfilled the General Education of 38 units and Free Electives Courses of 24 units.

The number of courses/units the students are required to complete will depend on the number of courses/units for which exemption and/or unit transfer will be granted. All unit transfer or course exemption shall be considered on a case-by-case basis upon admission.

The structure of the curriculum is as follows:

I)	Major Courses	66 units
II)	General Education	38 units
III)	Free Electives	24 units
		───────
		128 units

I.	Major Courses			66 units
	Major Core Courses (54 units)
	MUCS	3005	Advanced Musicianship I	3 units
	MUCS	3006	Advanced Musicianship II	3 units
	MUCS	3015	Ensemble I	1 unit
	MUCS	3016	Ensemble II	1 unit
	MUCS	3025	Music Practicum I	4 units
	MUCS	3026	Music Practicum II	4 units
	MUCS	3035	From Bach to Brahms (Music History & Literature)	3 units
	MUCS	3045	Practical Writing & Public Speaking for Musicians	3 units
	MUCS	3055	Mahler, Debussy & the Global Era (Music History & Literature)	3 units
	MUCS	3065	Research Methods for Performers (Sources, Genres & Performance)	3 units
	MUCS	3905	Performance Seminar I	0 unit
	MUCS	3906	Performance Seminar II	0 unit
	MUCS	4005	Analysis: Tonal & Post-tonal Theory	3 units
	MUCS	4008-9	Honours Project	4 units
	MUCS	4015	Ensemble III	1 unit
	MUCS	4016	Ensemble IV	1 unit
	MUCS	4025	Music Practicum III	4 units
	MUCS	4026	Music Practicum IV	4 units
	MUCS	4035	Arts in Context & Music Advocacy	3 units
	MUCS	4045	Creative Project	3 units
	MUCS	4055	Introduction to Music Entrepreneurship & Business	3 units
	MUCS	4905	Performance Seminar III	0 unit
	MUCS	4906	Performance Seminar IV	0 unit

	Major Elective Courses (12 units)
	Four of the following courses:
	MUCS	3105	Internship I	3 units
	MUCS	3106	Internship II	3 units
	MUCS	3115	Collaborative Piano	3 units
	MUCS	3125	Fundamentals of Conducting	3 units
	MUCS	3135	Instrumental Pedagogy	3 units
	MUCS	3145	Music Education—Principles & Practices	3 units
	MUCS	3155	Orchestral Performance & Literature	3 units
	MUCS	3165	Piano Pedagogy Seminar	3 units
	MUCS	3175	Advanced Conducting	3 units
	MUCS	3215	Special Topics in Music	3 units
	MUCS	4105	Internship III	3 units
	MUCS	4106	Internship IV	3 units

II.	General Education			38 units

III.	Free Electives			24 units
				───────
				128 units