Popular music has the power to uplift, stimulate, comfort, motivate, and communicate like no other art form. Its attractiveness lies in its ubiquity, openness and lack of convention. UQ's Popular Music major will help you to understand your own response to music and the society in which you live. The courses will help you express yourself in writing and in music production. The courses offered in the Popular Music Major will help you to understand your own response to music and the society in which you live and they will inspire you to consider and experience the power and wonders of music. This major produces well-qualified and multi-skilled graduates capable of working effectively in today's music industry.