General Degree Requirements

1. Full-time music majors and minors must register for MUS 269 Recital/Concert Attendance each semester of residence.
2. Full-time music majors and minors must participate in an assigned ensemble in their primary performance area each semester. (Ensembles may be taken for 0 credit if the student’s total semester load is 18 credits or more.) Music scholarship recipients have additional ensemble participation requirements.

Definition of Ensemble Sizes by Course Number and Title

1. All music degree candidates must pass a comprehensive exit exam in music history and theory.
2. Bachelor of Music degree candidates must pass the piano proficiency examination.
3. Music majors take MUS 191 World Music in the humanities/fine arts component.
4. Bachelor of Music candidates in voice performance are required to take courses in two different foreign languages selected from German, Italian or French.
5. Bachelor of Music in Performance candidates must take all 4 applied credits of their minor instrument or voice in one area of concentration.