Bachelor of Education (Honours) and Bachelor of Music

The Bachelor of Education (Honours) double degree course will prepare you for a career as a skilled, critical and effective teacher and educator in the primary or secondary sector. Participants build a strong base for decision making in relation to their practice and establish themselves as future educational leaders in a global workforce. You will build a high level of expertise in one of two specialisations:

• Primary education
• Secondary education

The course will prepare you for teaching in an increasingly diverse, complex and changing world. You will engage with contemporary ideas and practices and learn how to foster the learning of children and young people with varied needs. This will enable you to develop your students’ creative, intellectual, physical, personal and social capabilities.

While learning to navigate the complex nature of teaching, you will develop the specific professional knowledge and teaching skills needed to engage students of various ages and developmental stages with particular school subjects. Depending upon your specialisation, you will develop the skills and knowledge needed to teach in learning areas such as the arts and music, English, mathematics, humanities, physical education, health and wellbeing, science, and digital technologies. Professional experience offered throughout the course in urban, rural, remote or international locations and education settings, will build your knowledge of teaching and learning. As a result, you will become a thoughtful, effective and inclusive educator, able to design learning experiences that ensure that your future students have the right balance of challenge and support.

The Bachelor of Education (Honours) prepares you for the global workforce. You will have a strong foundation for decision making about your practice and you will be in a position to establish yourself as an educational leader of the future.

The course is available for either primary or secondary school teaching. Secondary education students will prepare as specialist music teachers, while primary education students will be prepared to teach across the school curriculum with specialist expertise in either, English and literacy, or mathematics and numeracy, and will also have invaluable specialist expertise in music.

In this double degree course, you will advance your music skills, engage with the historical, creative, technical and cultural aspects of music, broaden your perspectives on music in the world, and lay the foundations for a highly rewarding career sharing all of this with children and young people as they in turn engage with music.

In music you will develop broad knowledge and will also specialise in one of composition and music technology, music performance, and popular music. You will have a high quality music education, coached to capitalise on your creative potential and to excel, and you will learn how to provide the same for your future students. Your education studies will provide knowledge of how children and young people learn and are taught both generally and in music, and also the skills needed to develop and implement effective learning experiences in music.