Your Curriculum

Music

Catalog Year 2013 - 2014 

MHCC Faculty Advisors:
Marshall Tuttle: 503-491-7010 - Room AC 2132
Marshall.Tuttle@mhcc.edu 

The MHCC music curriculum, now in its 47th year, offers a vibrant, creative and rigorous environment that prepares students for transfer to four-year institutions as music majors or minors. The faculty is dedicated to providing students with a highly personalized and comprehensive education, including courses in classical and contemporary music studies, instrumental and vocal labs, performance studies and master classes with world-renowned visiting artists.

For students interested in lower division general interest music, we offer a wide variety of courses in music appreciation, electronic music production, beginning guitar, music history and music performance.

Students are encouraged to enroll in or audition for one of the following performance groups:

• The MHCC Orchestra performs a varied repertoire ranging from classical to contemporary. For more information please email Marshall.Tuttle@mhcc.edu.
• The MHCC Chamber Choir: Auditions are required; participants should have choral experience.          
• The MHCC Jazz Bands I and II: Auditions occur the first week of fall term; for more information, call the music department office at 503-491-6969.
• The MHCC Symphonic Band is open to all members of the MHCC community who have experience playing a band instrument.
• The MHCC Symphonic Choir is open to all members of the MHCC community with only a simple pitch matching audition.
   

Curricular Outcomes
At the completion of this program, the student should be able to:

• Demonstrate original thinking by composing a musical sonata
• Demonstrate proficiency at harmonizing at the keyboard
• Discourse on any musical composition in historical and social context
• Demonstrate music performance proficiency on primary instrument or voice
• Identify basic diatonic and chromatic chord progressions and scale passages
• Perform vocally at sight, basic scale passages of diatonic and/or chromatic nature

The following plan of classes is a general guide to prepare students to pursue a music degree at a college or university.* To prepare for such a degree and at the same time meet MHCC degree requirements, follow one of the transfer degree options on pages 10-15 of the printed catalog.

Students receiving financial aid must be certificate or degree seeking and must follow official MHCC certificate or degree requirements.

Admission and degree requirements vary among colleges and universities. Students are advised to:

• Contact the transfer university to confirm specific admission/major/degree requirements.
• Consult with a faculty adviser or the MHCC Academic Advising and Transfer Center early to develop an educational plan.

*Note that community colleges do not award transfer degrees in a subject area, but do award an Associate of Arts Oregon Transfer degree, an Associate of Science Oregon Transfer – Business degree or an Associate of Science degree. 

¹ Students may use this course to satisfy computer literacy requirement.
² Students may not use demonstrated proficiency on the College Placement Test (CPT) to satisfy this requirement.
³ MTH105 or higher is required for transfer.
⁴A minimum of 90 credits is required for an MHCC degree
‡ This plan aligns with the Associate of Science degree; refer to degree requirements, page 14 of the printed catalog.

Students planning to transfer to a four-year school must consult with the institution they will be attending as well as work with a music faculty adviser. In all schedule planning, it is important for the student to check the course description for prerequisite information.