Undergraduate
Majors
- BS in Music
- Performance Concentration
This concentration provides a solid foundation for a career in the art of music. The program of study focuses on a core of substantial training and experience in the chosen performance medium. - Music Business Concentration
This concentration prepares student musicians for careers in publishing, recording, sales, management, manufacturing, distribution, marketing, and the many other fields that make up the music business. - Theory/Composition Concentration
This concentration prepares student musicians for advanced study leading to careers in music theory, composition, or other allied areas of music. - Jazz & Commercial Music Concentration
This concentration provides a musical environment that helps prepare students for a performing career in today’s diverse world of professional music. It builds knowledge of composition, arranging, improvisation, technology, history, and business. - Music History and Literature Concentration
Courses in historical musical topics, with emphasis on bibliography and research techniques, provide a foundation for graduate study leading to careers in musicology, musical criticism, and music librarianship.
- Performance Concentration
- BSEd in Music Education
This degree prepares students for exciting careers as music educators in public, private, or parochial schools in pre-K through grade 12. - BA in Music
This degree offers a broad-based program, with fewer major hours and more liberal arts elective hours. - BA in Music Business
This program teaches music business foundations and concepts in order to manage the legal, financial, and creative issues faced by music business professionals in the global music marketplace. Unlike the BS in Music Business, no audition is required for entrance into the BA program.
Minors
Degree Requirements
View the "Four-Year Plans" below, which are also available from your advisor and the Music Office (Room 101 Shapiro Family Hall):
- Music (BA)
- Music Business I (BA-general)
- Music Business II (BA-marketing or entrepreneurship)
- Music Education (BS Ed)
- Music with a conc. in Jazz and Commercial Music (BS)
- Music with a conc. in History/Literature (BS)
- Music with a conc. in Music Business (BS)
- Music with a conc. in Performance (BS)
- Music with a conc. in Theory/Composition (BS)
- Music with a conc. in Composition/Theory (BS)