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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Music - Performance Piano, BM


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Required Credits: 82

Program Code: BM-MUS-PPIO

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Required Course: 1

University Core Curriculum (Music: Performance & Jazz Studies)


Required Credits: 31

Bachelor of Music students complete a modified University Core Curriculum:

One (1) University Core Curriculum Area 2B course is required: ENG 1100  

Rather than completing one course in each of University Core Curriculum Areas 2A, 2C, 3A and 3B, Bachelor of Music students take two (2) courses from any of these areas. The two (2) courses must be from two (2) different disciplines and cannot be music courses.

Bachelor of Music students take on only one (1) course from University Core Curriculum Area 3C, Ways of Knowing; Social and Behavioral Sciences.

For Jazz Studies students, the following University Core Curriculum courses are suggested:

University Core Curriculum requirements and courses.  

Bachelor of Music Core Requirements (Performance)


Required Credits: 27

Piano Concentration Requirements


Required Credits: 11

Large Ensemble Requirement


Required Credits: 8

Take a Large Ensemble course for eight (8) semesters; select from the following:

Chamber Ensemble Requirement


Required Credits: 6

Take a Chamber Ensemble course for six (6) semesters; choose from the following:

Performance Seminar Requirement


Required Credits: 4

Take the Performance Seminar course for four (4) semesters:

Recital Hour Requirement


Take the Recital Hour course for eight (8) semesters:

Technology Intensive Requirement (Music)


Required Courses: 2

One (1) Technology Intensive course is completed as part of the major requirements: MUSI 1580  

One (1) additional Technology Intensive course is required for graduation.

Technology Intensive requirement and courses.    

Writing Intensive Requirement


Required Courses: 4

One (1) Writing Intensive course is completed as part of the University Core Curriculum, Area 2B: ENG 1100  

Three (3) additional Writing Intensive courses are required for graduation.

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