MUSI20206: The Business of Music

10 x online quizzes (4% each, 40% total)
Final Essay (60%)

Content / Lectures
The course covered a wide range of topics, from the basics of copyright law through to entrepreneurism. The content could get a little dry and boring, but Andrew tried to make it interesting by adding in quotes and examples from the real world. Barely any of the lectures went for the full 2 hours, and they could easily be done from home.

Quizzes
The quizzes were a very straightforward component of the course. Each quiz was comprised of 4 questions, all of which were usually taken directly from the lecture slides (and occasionally from something the lecturer had said). For me, each quiz took less than 5 minutes, which I found was plenty of time (especially given the tests were untimed so you could really take as long as you wanted). It is very easy to score highly on these quizzes, assuming you do the lecture and can get a basic understanding of the material.

Final Assessment
The final assessment was a 2000 word essay. You could pick any topic, as long as it was somehow related to relationships within the music industry and some aspect of the course. I personally found this a little challenging, as there was such a broad scope of things you could talk about (and so knowing if you were on the right track got a bit tricky). I did quite a bit of research to help find the connections to both my topic and the course, which I found helped as my essay started to come together.

Overall ViewThis subject was enjoyable, and could almost be treated as an online subject as you didn't need to attend the lectures and all of the in-semester assessment was done through the LMS. The only reasons I didn't rate it higher was the slightly boring nature of some of the lectures, combined with a very broad end of semester assessment task! I did it as a breadth subject, and would recommend it as a breadth for people interested in gaining some understanding of how the music industry operates.

Yes, with screen capture.

Andrew Watt

No, don't need them though.

3.5 Out of 5

No recommended texts

1 x 2 hour 'seminar' per week (basically a lecture)

2017, Semester 2

TBA