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2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin

Sample Schedule: Music with Concentration in Music Theory/Composition: Emphasis, Composition, BS (124 Semester Hours)


 

FIRST-YEAR

Fall

S.H.

Spring

S.H.

WSC 001 - Composition  

3

WSC 002 - Composition  

3

Foreign Language Course

3

Foreign Language Course

3

MUS 020 - (CP) Chamber Ensemble  and MUS 020L - Chamber Ensemble Lab  

0.5

MUS 020 - (CP) Chamber Ensemble  and MUS 020L - Chamber Ensemble Lab  

0.5

MUS 021 MUS 022 MUS 023 MUS 024 MUS 025 , or MUS 026  

0.5

MUS 021 MUS 022 MUS 023 MUS 024 MUS 025 , or MUS 026  

0.5

MUS 035 - Piano Class  

1

MUS 035A - Piano Class  

1

MUS 048 - (AA) Music Histories, Genres and Cultures  

3

MUS 066 - Beginning Composition  

3

MUS 069 - Music Fundamentals and Species Counterpoint  

2 (3)

MUS 062 - Elementary Eartraining  

2 (3)

MUS 001P-022P - (CP) Private Instruction  

1

MUS 070A - Introduction to Harmony and Analysis  

3

MUS 029 - Concert Attendance  

0

MUS 001P-022P - (CP) Private Instruction  

1

MUS 061A - Elementary Eartraining  

2-3

MUS 029 - Concert Attendance  

0

Total Semester Hours

16-18

Total Semester Hours

17-18



SECOND-YEAR

Fall

S.H.

Spring

S.H.

MUS 020 - (CP) Chamber Ensemble  and MUS 020L - Chamber Ensemble Lab  

0.5

MUS 020 - (CP) Chamber Ensemble  and MUS 020L - Chamber Ensemble Lab   

0.5

MUS 021 MUS 022 MUS 023 MUS 024 MUS 025 , or MUS 026  

0.5

MUS 021 MUS 022 MUS 023 MUS 024 MUS 025 , or MUS 026  

0.5

MUS 071 - Harmony  

4

MUS 064 - Advanced Eartraining  

2

MUS 063 - Advanced Eartraining  

2

MUS 072 - Harmony  

4

MUS History Elective Course

3

MUS 144 - History of Music  

3

MUS 029 - Concert Attendance  

0

MUS 020P - (CP) Composition  

1

Foreign Language Course

3

MUS 029 - Concert Attendance  

0

Behavioral Social Sciences (BH) or History, Philosophy, Religion (HP) Distribution Course  

3

Foreign Language Course

3

MUS 020P - (CP) Composition   

1

Liberal Arts Elective Course

3

Total Semester Hours

17

Total Semester Hours

17


 

THIRD-YEAR 
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Fall

S.H.

Spring

S.H.

MUS 020 - (CP) Chamber Ensemble  and MUS 020L - Chamber Ensemble Lab  

0.5

MUS 020 - (CP) Chamber Ensemble  and MUS 020L - Chamber Ensemble Lab  

0.5

MUS 021 MUS 022 MUS 023 MUS 024 MUS 025 , or MUS 026  

0.5

MUS 021 MUS 022 MUS 023 MUS 024 MUS 025 , or MUS 026  

0.5

MUS Elective Course

1

MUS 065 - Advanced Musicianship  

3

MUS 120B - Intermediate Composition  

2

MUS 145 - History of Music: The 20th-Century  

3

MUS 154 - Form Analysis  

3

MUS 120B - Intermediate Composition  

2

MUS 157 - Fundamentals of Electronic Music Techniques  

3

MUS 158 - Advanced Electronic Music Techniques  

3

MUS 153 - 18th-Century Counterpoint  or MUS 169 - Contemporary Musical Practice  

3

MUS 166 - Orchestration  or MUS 167 - Scoring for Instrumental and Vocal Ensembles  

3

MUS 107A - Instrumental Conducting  

3

MUS 108 - Choral Conducting  

2

MUS 029 - Concert Attendance  

0

MUS 029 - Concert Attendance  

0

Total Semester Hours

16

Total Semester Hours

17


 

FOURTH-YEAR

Fall

S.H.

Spring

S.H.

MUS 020 - (CP) Chamber Ensemble  and MUS 020L - Chamber Ensemble Lab  

0.5

MUS 020 - (CP) Chamber Ensemble  and MUS 020L - Chamber Ensemble Lab  

0.5

MUS 021 MUS 022 MUS 023 MUS 024 MUS 025 , or MUS 026  

0.5

MUS 021 MUS 022 MUS 023 MUS 024 MUS 025 , or MUS 026  

0.5

MUS 120D - Composition  

4

MUS 120D - Composition 

 

4

MUS 153 - 18th-Century Counterpoint  or MUS 169 - Contemporary Musical Practice  

 

3

Literature (LT) or Appreciation and Analysis (AA) or Creative Participation (CP) Distribution Course 

 

3

Liberal Arts Elective Course

3

MUS Elective Course

1

Literature (LT) or Appreciation and Analysis (AA) or Creative Participation (CP) Distribution Course 

 

3

Behavioral Social Sciences (BH) or History, Philosophy, Religion (HP) Distribution Course  

3

Natural Science (NS) Distribution Course 

 

3

MUS 029 - Concert Attendance  

0

MUS 029 - Concert Attendance  

0

Math (MA) Distribution Course  

3

Total Semester Hours

17

Total Semester Hours

15

Program Total

124

 

Updated January 2023