Bachelor of Arts in Music, Business & Recording

Entrance Requirements

New music majors and minors are required to complete an entrance audition for admittance to the Department of Music.

Placement Examinations

  • Transfer and new students in music must take placement examinations as appropriate in applied music and music theory.
  • Students who have not been enrolled in applied music or music theory for two or more years must reaudition for admittance into the Department of Music and take a theory placement exam.

1. Specific Courses Required for this degree

Completion of the following required courses in Music:

  • MUS 000: Recital Attendance (7 semesters)
  • MUS 106/FYS 101: Careers in the Music Industry (3 hours)
  • MUS 103 Introduction to Music Technology (1 hour)
  • MUS 104 Music Theory I (3 hours)
  • MUS 108 Aural Skills I (1 hour)
  • MUS 140: Applied Music (2 hours) (2 semesters)
  • MUS 141: Applied Music II (2 hours) (2 semesters)
  • MUS 204 Music Theory II (3 hours)
  • MUS 208 Aural Skills II (1 hour)
  • MUS 245/451: Concert Band
    • OR 
  • MUS 250/450 Orchestra (7 sems. of one Ensemble)
    • OR 
  • MUS 247/447: Concert Choir
    • and/or
  • MUS 257/457: Chamber Choir (7 sems. of any choir combination)
  • MUS 304: Advanced Music Theory (3 hours)
  • MUS 308: Advanced Aural Skills (1 hour)
  • MUS 320: Advanced Piano Class (1 hour)
  • MUS 327: Music History II (3 hours)
  • MUS 340: Applied Music (2 hours)
  • MUS 360: Conducting Techniques (2 hours)
  • MUS 375: Music Recording Techniques (3 hours)
  • MUS 376: Topics in Music Business (3 hours)
  • MUS 377: Music Business Internship (3 hours)
  • MUS 378: Music Recording Seminar (2 hours)
  • MUS 476: Music Business Capstone (2 hours)

Applied area options:

Single applied area

  • MUS 140, 141: Applied Music (2 credits, 2 credits)
  • MUS 240, 241: Applied Music (2 credits, 2 credits)
  • MUS 340: Applied Music (2 credits)

Multiple applied area (two – three applied areas possible)

  • MUS 140, 141: Applied Music (Area 1) (2 credits, 2 credits)
  • MUS 140, 141: Applied Music (Area 2) (2 credits, 2 credits)
  • MUS 140: Applied Music (Area 3) (2 credits)

 

  • MUS 140, 141, 240: Applied Music (Area 1) (2 credits, 2 credits, 2 credits)
  • MUS 140 ,141: Applied Music (Area 2) (2 credits, 2 credits)

Two of the following courses (MUS 380 and MUS 381 are 1 credit courses and therefore must both be taken in order to count as one course):

  • MUS 326: Music History I (3 hours)
  • MUS 333: Form & Analysis (2 hours)
  • MUS 380: Commercial Music Composition and Production I (1 hour) AND
  • MUS 381: Commercial Music Composition and Production II (1 hours)
  • AR 202: In Design (3 hours)
  • AR 206: Studio One (3 hours)
  • AR 208: Drawing (3 hours)
  • AR 220: Painting (3 hours)
  • AR 281: Digital Photography (3 hours)
  • COMM 275: News Writing and Criticism (3 hours)
  • COMM 280: Visual Rhetoric (3 hours)
  • COMM 360: Media Management (3 hours)
  • CSCI 104: Fundamentals of Programming (3 hours)
  • THTR 205: Improvisational Acting (3 hours)
  • THTR 210: Stage Makeup (3 hours)
  • THTR 223: Beginning Acting (3 hours)
  • THTR 285: Production Management (3 hours)
  • THTR 334: Lighting Design (3 hours)

Completion of the following business courses (21 credits):

  • BUS 103: Introduction to Business (3 hours)
  • BUS 207: Principles of Accounting I (3 hours)
  • BUS 211: Business Law (3 hours)
  • BUS 304: Principles of Marketing (3 hours)
  • BUS 361: Principles of Management (3 to 4 hours)
  • BUS 365: Small Bus Management/Entrepreneur (3 hours)
  • ECON 255: Macroeconomics Principles (3 hours)

Optional class

  • BUS 265: Business Communications (3 hours)
  • and/or BUS 362: Human Resource Management (3 hours)
  • and/or BUS 401: Organizational Behavior (3 hours)

When to take these courses

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