Degree Program
Special Studies: Music
Catalog Year 2008-09
The curriculum in music is designed to give the student a broad background in the understanding of music and in the development of skills, with an opportunity to select areas in which he/she would like to specialize. It includes course work in music and in general education to total 90 hours; other related courses may be substituted with the approval of the Performing and Visual Arts program manager.
Program 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,
| First Quarter |
Cr |
| MUS111 |
Music Theory I |
3 |
| MUS114 |
Sight Singing/Ear Training |
1 |
| MUS131 |
Group Piano I |
2 |
| MUS147 |
Class Percussion Beginning I |
1 |
| MUP |
Music Performance Group1 |
1-3 |
| MUP |
Applied Individual Lessons1 |
1-2 |
| WR121 |
English Composition |
3 |
| |
General Education Requirement‡ |
3 |
| 15-18 |
| Second Quarter |
|
| MUS112 |
Music Theory II |
3 |
| MUS115 |
Sight Singing/Ear Training |
1 |
| MUS132 |
Group Piano II |
2 |
| MUS148 |
Class Percussion Intermediate II |
1 |
| MUP |
Music Performance Group1 |
1-3 |
| MUP |
Applied Individual Lessons1 |
1-2 |
| WR122 |
English Composition |
3 |
| |
General Education Requirement‡ |
3 |
| 15-18 |
| Third Quarter |
|
| MUS113 |
Music Theory III |
3 |
| MUS116 |
Sight Singing/Ear Training |
1 |
| MUS133 |
Group Piano III |
2 |
| MUP |
Music Performance Group1 |
1-4 |
| MUP |
Applied Individual Lessons1 |
1-2 |
| PE |
Physical Education2 |
1 |
| PSY101 |
Psychology of Human Relations or PSY201 General Psychology |
3 |
| SP111 |
Fundamentals of Speech |
3 |
| 15-19 |
| Fourth Quarter |
|
| MUS211 |
Music Theory IV |
3 |
| MUS214 |
Keyboard Harmony |
2 |
| MUP |
Music Performance Group1 |
1-4 |
| MUP |
Applied Individual Lessons1 |
1-2 |
| MTH65 |
Beginning Algebra II (or higher)1 |
4 |
| |
General Education Requirement‡ |
3 |
| 14-18 |
| Fifth Quarter |
|
| MUS212 |
Music Theory V |
3 |
| MUS215 |
Keyboard Harmony |
1 |
| MUP |
Music Performance Group1 |
1-4 |
| MUP |
Applied Individual Lessons1 |
1-2 |
| |
General Education Requirement‡ |
6 |
| 13-17 |
| Sixth Quarter |
|
| MUS213 |
Music Theory VI |
3 |
| MUS224 |
Advanced Sight Singing/Ear Training |
1 |
| MUP |
Music Performance Group1 |
1-4 |
| MUP |
Applied Individual Lessons1 |
1-2 |
| HE250 |
Personal Health2 |
3 |
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General Education Requirement‡ |
6 |
| 15-19 |
1 It is recommended that students take a minimum of 18 credits of MUP courses in order to meet the minimum degree requirement of 90 credits.
2 Students may not use demonstrated proficiency on the College Placement Test (CPT) to satisfy this requirement.
3 Students who complete HE252 Standard First Aid or HE250 Personal Health are required to complete at least one additional credit of P.E. activity to satisfy the Health and Physical Education requirement for the Associate of General Studies degree.
Note: This program is a unique version of a General Studies degree.
‡See pages 7-10 of the printed catalog.
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