CUA50820 Diploma of Music
Let your talent for music and performance take centre stage!
The music industry is electric and expanding rapidly, with WA artists making waves and turning heads on the national and international stage! Participants will extend their industry knowledge, learn how to negotiate contracts, manage copyright arrangements, and build on their performance techniques and repertoire.
Overview
Campus Broome
When Available all year
Study Mode On Campus
The Diploma of Music is your backstage pass to earning your moment in the spotlight!
Level up your skills to break into the wider music scene, gain state and national exposure, and turn up the volume on your career.
Throughout this course, students will:
- Extend their skills as a musician, both in group and solo settings
- Apply music knowledge and artistic judgement to their work and career
- Manage copyright
- Build their studio and live engineering skills
- Negotiate contracts
- Build sound engineering skills in live and studio settings
- Incorporate music technology into their compositions
- Produce sound recordings
- Build and extend their career in the music industry
Students will gain skills in:
- Develop performance programs
- Performance leadership
- Expertise in creative fields
- Copyright arrangements
- Instrumental skills with an expanded repertoire
- Songwriting
- Produce sounds recording
- Mix audio and recorded music
- Live audio
- Promotion of creative acts
- Managing artists and their careers
- Self-care in the music industry
- you have some in-depth experience working in an area of specialisation within the music industry. This may include, but is not limited to, musicians, songwriters, sound engineers and artist managers.
- you may have been working in the Music Industry for an extended period of time but are interested in building and maintaining currency and expertise
Select your preferred campus and apply
Available all year, 2025
Details
Units and fees
Core
| National ID Unit title | General fee | Resource fee |
|---|---|---|
| CUACMP511 Manage copyright arrangements | $289.50 | $0.00 |
| CUAIND412 Provide freelance services | $173.70 | $8.45 |
| CUAIND512 Enhance professional practice using creative arts industry knowledge | $318.45 | $4.70 |
| CUAMWB401 Develop and implement own self-care plan in the creative industries | $260.55 | $8.45 |
Elective
| National ID Unit title | General fee | Resource fee |
|---|---|---|
|
|
$173.70 | $8.45 |
|
|
$347.40 | $20.70 |
|
|
$196.86 | $8.45 |
|
|
$202.65 | $8.45 |
|
|
$463.20 | $75.20 |
|
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$364.77 | $8.45 |
|
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$463.20 | $0.00 |
|
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$196.86 | $0.00 |
|
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$260.55 | $8.45 |
|
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$289.50 | $66.10 |
|
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$532.68 | $91.65 |
Option
| National ID Unit title | General fee | Resource fee |
|---|---|---|
|
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$364.77 | $0.00 |
Our estimated fees are based on:
- Full time study in 2025.
- All units required to gain this qualification. If you're a student that has successfully completed a lower-level qualification that is a prerequisite for this course, you'll only pay for the units that you need to enrol in to complete this course.
- For more information regarding eligibility and fees, please visit the DTWD website.
These fees are estimates only and depend on your eligibility for government funding, concession rates, the units you have already completed or seek to be recognised under Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). Additional resource, material and/or equipment costs may apply. Visit our Fees and Charges page for more information, including on consumer rights.