1. General Education - Carolina Core (31-43 Hours)

CMW: Effective, Engaged and Persuasive Communication: Writing (6 Hours)

• ENGL 101 - Critical Reading and Composition  
• ENGL 102 - Rhetoric and Composition  

ARP: Analytical Reasoning and Problem Solving (6 Hours)

SCI: Scientific Literacy (7 hours)

GFL: Global Citizenship and Multicultural Understanding: Foreign Language (0-6 hours)

• Language Proficiency through 122

GHS: Global Citizenship and Multicultural Understanding: Historical thinking (3 Hours)

GSS: Global Citizenship and Multicultural Understanding: Social Science (3 Hours)

AIU: Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding (3 hours)

• MUSC 115 - Music Theory I  

Overlay Eligible Courses (3-9 Hours) 

Up to two of these core requirements may be met in overlay courses.

CMS: Effective, Engaged and Persuasive Communication: Speech (0-3 Hours)

INF: Information Literacy (0-3 Hours)

VSR: Values, Ethics, and Social Responsibility (0-3 Hours)

Nonmusic Electives (0-7 Hours)

2. Major Requirements (90 Hours)

Major Courses (25 Hours)

• MUSC 100 - Recital Class  (at least 5 semesters required)
• MUSC 100A - Music Advocacy I: Understanding the Power of Your Music  
• MUSC 100L - Recital Class Laboratory  
• MUSC 116 - Music Theory II  
• MUSC 117 - Aural Skills I  
• MUSC 118 - Aural Skills II  
• MUSC 215 - Music Theory III  
• MUSC 216 - Music Theory IV  
• MUSC 217 - Aural Skills III  
• MUSC 218 - Aural Skills IV  
• MUSC 333 - Basic Choral and Instrumental Conducting  
• MUSC 353 - History of Western Music I  
• MUSC 354 - History of Western Music II  
• MUSC 455 - History of Western Music III  

Chamber Music Concentration (65 hours)

• MUSC 130 - Chamber Music (3-6 hours)    
• MUSC 592 - 21st Century Musician  
• Music Theory Elective (3 hours) chosen from the following:
  • MUSC 319 - Jazz Theory I  
  • MUSC 518 - Form and Analysis  
  • MUSC 525 - Post-Tonal Music Theory  
• Chamber Music Elective (0-3 hours) chosen from the following:
  • MUSC 580 - Music & Arts Entrepreneurship.  
  • MUSC 591 - Music Leadership Practicum  
  • MUSC 593 - Arts Marketing  
  • MUSC 594 - Independent Music Teaching Business  
• Applied Music Courses (32 hours)

Applied Music must be completed satisfactorily for a minimum of 8 semesters & 32 hours of credit.

• MUSC 211 - Lower Division Applied Music—Performance Track  (16 hours)
• MUSC 411 - Upper Division Applied Music—Performance Track ​ (16 hours)

• Ensembles (8 hours)

Students are required to participate in the major ensemble most closely related to their primary instrument. Students must declare a primary instrument upon acceptance into the program. Some ensembles require an audition for membership. Regulations for attendance at ensemble rehearsals & performances are different from regulations for class attendance. Members of ensembles are expected to be present at every rehearsal & performance, unless excused by the conductor. Courses that qualify for the Chamber Music requirement include all MUSC 130 courses with a suffix of A-Z and topics in: Voice, String, Percussion, Wind, Guitar, and Keyboard.  

Ensemble requirements are as follows:

• Guitar: 2 major (usually choral), 6 guitar ensembles
• Jazz: 6 jazz ensembles, 2 major or minor jazz ensembles
• Organ: 4 major (usually choral), 4 accompanying
• Piano: 2 major, 2 accompanying, 2 chamber, 2 of choice
• String: 6 orchestra, 2 chamber
• Voice: 6 major, 2 opera workshop
• Wind/Percussion: 6 major, 2 chamber

• Concentration Electives (13 hours)

Students must complete a minimum of 13 hours of music major electives, including MUED 155 & 156, if needed.  Students whose primary medium is voice must complete MUSC 278, MUSC 578, and MUSC 579.  Students must complete a pedagogy course in applied area when available.  For Bachelor of Music candidates with an emphasis in performance, a half recital is required in the junior year & a full recital is required in the senior year, as well as selection of one of following options with its required electives:

1. Piano Pedagogy (12 hours)
   1. MUSC 573 - Performance Pedagogy I  
   2. MUSC 573L - Pedagogy Laboratory  
   3. MUSC 574 - Performance Pedagogy II  
   4. MUSC 574L - Pedagogy Laboratory  
   5. MUSC 575L - Pedagogy Laboratory  
2. Piano Accompanying (12 hours)
   1. MUSC 268 - Keyboard Harmony and Sight Reading Laboratory  
   2. MUSC 269 - Beginning Piano Accompanying  
   3. 3 courses chosen from the following:
      1. MUSC 543 - Song Literature  
      2. MUSC 545 - Survey of the Opera  
      3. MUSC 549 - Survey of Chamber Music  
      4. MUSC 578 - Diction for Singers I  
      5. MUSC 579 - Diction for Singers II