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Business Management

Business Management

Course Summary

Are you an aspiring entrepreneur/business owner/leader? Studying business management is a good opportunity for you to learn the knowledge and skills to help you pursue this aspiration. Students will follow an idea for a business concept, to planning and establishing a business, through to the day-to-day management of a business. Using contemporary business case studies students will compare a range of management theories with management in practice. Students will have the opportunity to propose and evaluate alternative strategies for establishing and maintaining a business.

VCE: Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3 & 4 sequence available

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Investigate the planning stage of setting up a business
  • Learn how to establish a business
  • Examine how large businesses operate
  • Learn what makes a good manager and management styles
  • Explore change management strategies and how to ensure transformation and continued success of a business

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Key Concepts in Business Management Textbook

Approximate Costs

Unit 1 & 2

Unit 3 & 4

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VCE VET Music (Sound Production)

VCE VET Music (Sound Production)

Course Summary

This course will teach you a range of practical skills and knowledge to record, mix, perform and edit sound sources. It covers areas such as soundtrack recording, digital editing and mixing, audio equipment operations and management.

Student will gain an entry level understanding of the music industry which could be involved in music performance, sound production, music creation and composition, music business.

The job roles that relate to this qualification may include assistant sound technician, assistant music manager, musician, sound assistant and road crew.

Upon successful completion of all course requirements, the RTO will issue a Certificate. Whereby a student has attained only some units, the RTO will issue a Statement of attainment for those units.

ATAR Contribution: Unit students do not receive a Study Score contribution for this subject

VET: CUA20620 Certificate II in Music (Sound Production)

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Develop basic audio skills and knowledge
  • Perform basic sound editing                           
  • Assist with sound recordings
  • Incorporate technology into music making
  • Develop skills to play or sing music
  • Incorporate music technology into performances
Find out more VET Music Industry
https://youtu.be/iRboB2pbFXU?t=107

This program is run as part of an Auspicing arrangement with College of Sound and Music Production, a Registered Training Organisation.  TIOD: 41549

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Unit 1 & 2

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Unit 3 & 4

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Drama

Drama

Course Summary

Do you enjoy improvising and performing? Looking at a career as a performer? In VCE Drama you will focus on creating, presenting and analysing self-devised solo and ensemble performances. You will explore real or imagined characters based on stimulus material that reflects personal, cultural and/or community experiences and stories. You will analysis your own performance work and professional performances.  You will explore a range of performance styles relevant to practices of story-telling, contemporary drama practice and the work of a variety of drama practitioners.

VCE: Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3 & 4 sequence available

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Create and present a devised performance
  • Document your performance development
  • Analyse your performance
  • Analyse a professional production

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Unit 1 & 2

Unit 3 & 4

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Music Inquiry (Unit 3 & 4)

Music Inquiry (Unit 3 & 4)

Course Summary

This study offers pathways for students whose main interest is a combination of performing, composing/arranging and investigating music through music making, analysing and responding in relation to their particular interests. Music making is a collective and integrated experience. It involves composing, arranging, interpreting, reimaging, improvising, recreating, performing and critiquing music in an informed manner. Students develop aural skills by responding to music from a range of sources across time and place. They analyse music works and/or styles and develop an understanding of how the treatment of music elements, concepts and compositional devices in one work and/or style can be identified and explained in the works of others.

VCE: Unit 3 & 4 sequence available

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Perform a work in the style of a selected work/creator and explain how the performance relates to the selected music style and/or creator
  • Create and/or arrange music and demonstrate the connection to the selected music style and/or creator
  • Analyse and describe the treatment of music elements, concepts and compositional devices in two works
  • Listen and respond to selected music excerpts from a range of styles
  • Externally-assessed Task (EAT) – Submit a folio that contains documentation, video recording of a performance and an audio and/or video recording of a composition/arrangement
  • End of year written examination
Music Unit 1 and 2
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Music Contemporary Performance (Units 3 & 4)

Music Contemporary Performance Units (3 & 4)

Course Summary

Students prepare a program for assessment in a live performance. They may be assessed as primarily a member of a group or as a solo performer. All performances must include at least one ensemble work with another live musician and an original work created by an Australian artist since 1990. All performances must include a personally reimagined version of an existing work. Original works may also be included in the program. Students identify technical, expressive and stylistic challenges relevant to works they are preparing for performance. They listen and respond to a wide range of music by a variety of performers in contemporary styles. They also study music language concepts such as sales, harmony and rhythmic materials that relate to contemporary music. Styles including (but not limited to) rock, pop, jazz, EDM, country, funk and R&B.

VCE: Unit 3 & 4 sequence available

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Perform a selection of works being prepared for the performance examination, demonstrating an understanding of music style, authentic performance conventions and a range of techniques
  • Demonstrate and discuss performance development techniques and reimagining approaches relevant to the performances of selected works
  • Discuss a performer’s interpretation and manipulation of music elements and concepts in works
  • Identify, recreate and notate music language concepts
  • End of year performance examination-End of year written examination
Music Unit 1 & 2

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