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Music, BA


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This major is administered by the area of Music  in the School of Performing Arts .

Program Learning Outcomes

The Music Program Learning Outcomes are: 

  1. As a Music student, you will be able to perform at appropriate levels for professional engagement
  2. You will demonstrate the disposition to cultivate a career in music. You will demonstrate an ongoing commitment to your own learning while maintaining high standards of professionalism
  3. You will be able to analyze, create, and interpret music and use this knowledge to enrich your work as a musician
  4. You will be able to classify and contextualize repertoire from diverse eras and traditions
  5. You will be able to employ critical thinking and self-reflection in the thoughtful and strategic planning, instruction, and assessment in music pedagogy. Your teaching will demonstrate a mastery of content knowledge and consider context, standards, essential questions, enduring understandings, and meaningful objectives and assessments


Consists of a minimum of 55 credits.

Music literature and history, 12 credits


Music Business, 2 credits


Applied music, minimum of 12 credits


Note


You must complete the 200 level of study on your major instrument before graduation. You may study at the 300 level with consent of instructor and/or area faculty.

Applied Piano, 2-6 credits


Note


When piano is not your major applied instrument, complete MUS 246  or MUS 160 . This requirement can also be fulfilled via a test-out option.

Large ensemble, 8 semesters minimum


1 credit per semester; required every semester enrolled. (See Note 3 .) Piano majors: 1 cr of MUS 328  (taken in lieu of large ensemble upon course offering).

Music electives, 4 credits


Electives may include any music or music education course not already listed in the required courses above, with the exception of the following:

World Language Courses, 0-8 credits


Complete a two-semester sequence of university entry-level world language courses (101, 102). The requirement may be fulfilled through equivalent coursework or other language acquisition as demonstrated through a test-out policy (including Native American languages and American Sign Language). If your native language is not English and you can document formal high school or university study of your native language, you may use ENGL 101  and ENGL 202 , or ENGL 150  as a means of fulfilling this world language requirement. Please see the Department of World Languages and Literatures  for details.

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