Music and Performing Arts Waikato Institute of Technology

Overview

Music and performing arts students work alongside each other to learn technical, theoretical and professional skills while developing their expertise in their chosen endorsements. Through additional elective modules and large-scale projects, students have the opportunity to specialise in their chosen field as they move through the degree.

This Music and Performing Arts program at Waikato Institute of Technology has two pathways:

• Music (audio production, composition/songwriting, performance)

• Performing Arts (theatre)

What you will learn

In the first year of the Bachelor of Music and Performing Arts, students will take three core modules:

• Music and Performing Arts Craft: Develop specialised skills
• Critical Methods: Understand the arts and the cultural world
• Professional Practice: Learn the ways of industry

To complement these modules, students will add two electives of their choice so they can broaden their creative toolkit—these electives include introductory papers on songwriting, performance, sound fundamentals, storytelling, moving image, design, photography, and more. 

These courses will give students a secure grounding in their discipline's technical, theoretical, and professional skills while also exposing them to broader ideas about the arts and the cultural world around them.

Career/further opportunities

• Live sound engineer
• Studio sound engineer
• Mixing engineer
• Mastering engineer
• Songwriter
• Composer
• Private instrument teacher
• Actor
• Lighting designer
• Stagehand
• Theatre technician
• Event co-ordinator
• Events management