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2022-2023 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Bachelor of Arts in Music, Business & Recording

Location(s): Face-to-face

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.

Specific courses required for this degree:

Completion of the Following Required Courses in Music:

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

Applied Area Options:

Single Applied Area

MUS 140 - Applied Music 2 Credit(s)
MUS 141 - Applied Music 2 Credit(s)
MUS 240 - Applied Music 2 Credit(s)
MUS 241 - Applied Music 2 Credit(s)
MUS 340 - Applied Music 2 Credit(s)

Multiple Applied Area (Two - Three Applied Areas Possible)

MUS 140 - Applied Music 2 Credit(s)
MUS 141 - Applied Music 2 Credit(s)
MUS 140 - Applied Music 2 Credit(s)
MUS 141 - Applied Music 2 Credit(s)
MUS 140 - Applied Music 2 Credit(s)
MUS 140 - Applied Music 2 Credit(s)
MUS 141 - Applied Music 2 Credit(s)
MUS 240 - Applied Music 2 Credit(s)
MUS 140 - Applied Music 2 Credit(s)
MUS 141 - Applied Music 2 Credit(s)

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

Completion of the Following Business Courses (21 Credits):

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

Optional Class

BUS 265 - Business Communications 3 Credit(s) AND/OR
BUS 362 - Human Resource Management 3 Credit(s) AND/OR
BUS 401 - Organizational Behavior 3 Credit(s)