Degrees
Certificate in Music Technology
Bachelor of Music
This degree provides pre-professional training for those students who expect to engage in a career in performance, composition, or musicology (including ethnomusicology). Studies in this degree emphasize the development of performance and/or composition skills, musicianship and associated studies in music, with an expectation of academic excellence as well. Areas of concentration include: composition, musicology, jazz studies, and performance. The jazz studies area includes jazz guitar, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, jazz bass, and drum set. Performance areas include voice, voice with an emphasis in music theatre, piano, organ, harp, violin, viola, cello, double bass, classical guitar, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone, trumpet, horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba, percussion. Students studying trumpet, trombone, or saxophone may also pursue jazz studies as a secondary emphasis.
A typical BM degree includes:
| Number of Credits | Area of Study |
| 40 | Major (performance and ensembles) |
| 40 | Support courses in music (theory, history, etc.) |
| 30 | Non-music courses, depending on major performance medium |
| 10 | Electives |
| 120 | MAXIMUM REQUIRED |
Bachelor of Music Education
This degree program is designed to prepare students for careers in music education and leads to a K-12 teaching license. Because of the varying demands and opportunities in teaching, students will have experience working with choral and instrumental ensembles and teaching general music. The course of study for music education majors includes music theory and aural skills, music history, conducting, liberal arts, education, and music education coursework. Music education majors study with applied faculty on their major instrument and have opportunities to perform in solo recitals and with a variety of ensembles. Students begin to observe and work with music teachers during their sophomore year. During the junior year, students participate in methods courses that investigate appropriate teaching strategies and materials. The culminating experience of the degree program is the student teaching semester. Students work in partnership with public school teachers as they assume the role and responsibilities of a full-time music educator. Degree tracks include choral music, instrumental music, choral-general music or instrumental-general music.
| Number of Credits | Area of Study |
| 61-62 | Major area of music (performance, ensembles, theory, history) |
| 23-24 | Support courses in music (theory, history, etc.) |
| 24 | Liberal arts courses |
| 17 | Education courses |
| 126 | TOTAL |
Bachelor of Arts in Music
The BA in Music offers students the opportunity to gain a broad liberal arts education with a concentration in music studies. Students in this program may focus on voice, piano, organ, violin, viola, cello, double bass, harp, trumpet, horn, trombone, tuba, euphonium, clarinet, saxophone, flute, oboe, bassoon, and musicology & world musics. This degree plan is popular among those students who wish to double major with a field outside of the College of Music. Most double majors take more than four years to complete. Some students completing the BA in Music have acquired the requisite skills and knowledge to continue on to graduate studies in music. However, many students who select the BA as a degree often pursue careers in some other field.
| Number of Credits | Area of Study |
| 68 | Liberal arts courses |
| 44 | Music courses |
| 8 | Electives |
| 120 | TOTAL |
Undergraduate Certificate Programs
The college offers full-time music students the option of earning one of two special certificates in conjunction with their degrees. Participating students elect the certificate’s curriculum in addition to the normal requirements of the degree program.
Certificate in Jazz Studies
The Jazz Program offers a Certificate in Jazz Studies for undergraduate music majors. The certificate program consists of an intense 18-hour curriculum in both the academic and performance areas, concluding with a jazz recital. Courses include jazz theory and aural foundations, improvisation, history of jazz, scoring and arranging, jazz piano, jazz combo, jazz ensemble and jazz techniques for the music educator. Please visit the Jazz Program web site for more information.
Certificate in Music Technology
The College of Music offers a Certificate in Music Technology for undergraduate students who wish to augment their degree with comprehensive studies in music technology. The curriculum consists of 18 credit hours drawn from the College of Music’s music technology courses, concluding with an independent project in computer music composition, performance, or research under faculty supervision. Students not majoring in music may also pursue a Certificate in Music Technology.
