Minor in Music

Program Requirements

A minor in music is available to any student whose major field or area of emphasis is outside the School of Music. A music minor consists of 20 credit hours as indicated:

Course Title Hours
MUSC 127Musicianship 12
MUSC 128Musicianship 22
MUSC 129Aural Skills 12
MUSC 130Aural Skills 22
MUSC 113Introduction to Music Studies and Professional Skills3
Select 9 additional credit hours from the following9
Jazz Improvisation
The Cultural Study of Music
Popular Music of the Americas
Post-Tonal Music
Jazz Music Theory
Introduction to Music Composition
Jazz Arranging
Survey of the Western Musical Canon
History of Jazz
Form and Analysis
Orchestration
Choral Arranging
Performance and Analysis
Topics in Analysis: Music in Media
Topics in Analysis: Popular Music Analysis
Topics in Musicology: Aesthetics
Topics in Musicology: Ethnography
Topics in Musicology: Gender
Topics in Musicology: Popular Musics
Applied music (4 credit hour maximum)
Music ensembles (4 credit hour maximum)
Total Credit Hours20