Bachelor of Music - Performance, Piano/Organ Track

For general degree requirements, see the College of Arts and Letters and the General Degree Requirements pages.

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Area A Essential Skills                                    Required Hours: 9
ENGL 1101 (with a grade of "C" or better)
ENGL 1102 (with a grade of "C" or better)
Select one of the following courses:
MATH 1101/1111/1112/1113/1125/1131

Area B Institutional Options                          Required Hours: 5
COMM 1110
Select two of the following courses:
ITDS 2726/ITDS 2727/ITDS 2735/ITDS 2745/ITDS 2746/ITDS 2748/ITDS 2749/ITDS 2755/ LEAD 1705/LIBR 1105
OR
Select one of the following courses:
EURO 2105/Foreign Language 1001, 1002, 2001, or 2002
Note: the extra hour may be used as an elective.

Area C Humanities/Fine Arts                        Required Hours: 6
Select one of the following humanities courses:
ENGL 2111/ENGL 2112/ITDS 1145*/ITDS 1155/ PHIL 1105
Select one of the following fine arts courses:
ARTH 1100/ITDS 1145*/MUSC 1100/THEA 1100
*ITDS 1145, though listed under both humanities and fine arts, may be taken only once.

Area D Science/Math/Technology               Required Hours: 10
Select one science course with a lab; the other course may be lab or non-lab:
ANTH 1145 (no lab); ASTR 1105/1305 (lab optional); ASTR 1106/1305; BIOL 1215 (lab included); BIOL 1125 (no lab); BIOL 1225 (lab included); CHEM 1151/1151L; CHEM 1152/1152L; CHEM 1211/1211L; CHEM 1212/1212L; ENVS 1105 (no lab); GEOL 1121 (lab included); GEOL 1122/1322; GEOL 2225 (lab included); ITDS 1215 (lab included); PHYS 1111/1311; PHYS 1112/1312; PHYS 1125/1325 (lab optional); PHYS 2211/2311; PHYS 2212/2312
Select one of the following courses or a science course from above:
CPSC 1105/MATH 1112/MATH 1113/MATH 1125/MATH 1131/MATH 1132/MATH 1127/MATH 1165/PHIL 2105

Area E Social Sciences                                 Required Hours: 12
Select one course from the following two courses:
HIST 2111
HIST 2112
Take the following course:
POLS 1101
Select one behavioral science course from the following courses:
ECON 2105/ECON 2106/PHIL 2135/PSYC 1101/SOCI 1101
Select one world cultures course from the following courses:
ANTH 1105/ANTH 2105/ANTH 2136/ENGL 2136/GEOG 1101/HIST 1111/HIST 1112/HIST 2116/ITDS 1146/ITDS 1156

Wellness Requirement                                Required Hours: 3
PELM 1205
Select any one PEDS course.

Area F Courses Related to Major               Required Hours: 18
MUSA 1211 Applied Music-Major Piano/Organ
MUSA 1215 Applied Music-Sec. Piano/Organ
MUSA 1212 Applied Music-Major Piano/Organ
MUSA 1215 Applied Music-Sec. Piano/Organ
MUSA 2211 Applied Music-Major Piano/Organ
MUSA 2212 Applied Music-Major Piano/Organ
MUSC 1215 Music Theory 1
MUSC 1305 Music Fundamentals
MUSC 2201 Music Theory 2
MUSC 2202 Music Theory 3
Take the appropriate course four times:
MUSC 1070 Orchestral Ensemble Activities
MUSC 1080 Wind Ensemble Activities
MUSC 1090 Vocal Ensemble Activities

Area G Program Requirements                  Required Hours: 46
A minimum grade of C is required in each of the following courses:
MUSA 3000 Piano Proficiency
MUSA 3221 Appl Music Major -Piano/Organ
MUSA 3222 Appl Music Major - Piano/Organ
MUSA 3305 Half Recital
MUSA 4231 Appl Music Major - Piano/Organ
MUSA 4232 Appl Music Major - Piano/Organ
MUSA 4305 Full Recital
MUSC 1000 Convocation (six semesters)
MUSC 1315 Music Skills 1
MUSC 2301 Music Skills 2
MUSC 2302 Music Skills 3
MUSC 3115 Counterpoint
MUSC 3116 Form and Analysis
MUSC 3225 Music History to 1750
MUSC 3226 Music History 1750-1900
MUSC 3227 Music History 1900-Present
MUSE 3201 Basic Conducting
MUSP 4305 Accompanying (taken four times)
Select two courses from the following:
MUSC 5221 Organ Literature 1, and
MUSC 5222 Organ Literature 2 , or
MUSC 5228 Piano Lit Through Classicism, and
MUSC 5229 Piano Lit Through Contemp Era
Select one group from the following:
GRP1: MUSE 3211 Organ Pedagogy 1
MUSE 3212 Organ Pedagogy 2
GRP2: MUSE 3231 Piano Pedagogy 1
MUSE 3232 Piano Pedagogy 2
Take one of the following:
FREN 1001 (For students with fewer than two years of high school French)
FREN 1002 (For students with two years of high school French)
Note: Student may substitute two semester hours in music electives if one of the above foreign languages is used for Area B.
Take one of the following:
GERM 1001 (for students with fewer than two years of high school German)
GERM 1002 (for students with two years of high school German)
Note: Student may substitute two semester hours in music electives if one of the above foreign languages is used for Area B.

Area H Program Electives                           Required Hours: 14
Select fourteen hours of MUSA, MUSC, MUSE, MUSP courses, 3000 level or above.

Total Hours Required: 123