Music

The music department offers two-year college experience for music majors, minors, and music education students. Courses are also offered that will fill the humanities breadth requirements.

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Program Outcomes

Career Possibilities

Transfer Options

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Scholarships & Grants

Students will be able to communicate clearly and effectively.
Students will be able to reason mathematically.
Students will be able to demonstrate teamwork, ethics, appropriate safety awareness and/or workplace specific skills.
Students will be able to recognize or articulate personal/interpersonal aspects of, or connections between, diverse cultural, social, or political contexts.
Students will be able to solve problems by gathering, interpreting, combining and/or applying information from multiple sources.

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Degrees & Certificates

Generic AA&S-DTA Transfer Degree

Name: Generic Associates of Art & Science Direct Transfer Agreement
Total Credits: 90
Learning Outcomes:

Students will be able to communicate clearly and effectively.
Students will be able to reason mathematically.
Students will be able to demonstrate teamwork, ethics, appropriate safety awareness and/or workplace specific skills.
Students will be able to recognize or articulate personal/interpersonal aspects of, or connections between, diverse cultural, social, or political contexts.
Students will be able to solve problems by gathering, interpreting, combining and/or applying information from multiple sources.

Basic and Breadth Requirements

Specified and General Electives

Course	Credits
Basic Skill – Communications (BS) ENGL& 101 – Composition I (5) and ENGL& 102 – Composition II (5) OR ENGL& 235 – Technical Writing (5)	10
Symbolic Quantitative Reasoning (SQR) Any MATH course above 101: MATH& 107 – Math in Society (5) (Liberal and Fine Arts, Early Childhood Ed), MATH& 141 – Pre-Calculus I (5) (Computer Science, Manufacturing, STEM), MATH& 146 – Statistics (5) (K-12 Ed, Social Work, Criminal Justice, Psychology) or PHIL& 120 – Symbolic Logic (5) (Liberal and Fine Arts, undecided)	5
Humanities (HU/HP) (15 credits from TWO disciplines) Includes art, communications, diversity, English, foreign languages, music, philosophy, religious studies Maximum 5 credits of HP *Maximum 5 credits of 100-level foreign language	15
Social Sciences (SS) (15 credits from THREE disciplines) Includes anthropology, criminal justice, economics, history, political science, psychology, sociology	15
Math/Science (LS/MS/NS) At least one LAB SCIENCE (LS) Course *Maximum 5 credits of additional math	15
Additional Breadth (HP/HU/SS/LS/MS/NS/SQR)	5
PE/Wellness (PEH) PEH 100 – Lifetime Wellness	3

Course	Credits
Specified (HU/HP/SS/LS/MS/NS/SE)	10
General (any 100-level and above course)	12

AAS Music Transfer Degree

Total Credits: 51-61+
Learning Outcomes:

Recommended Pre-Major Courses

Recommended Music Electives (10-20 Credits)

Course	Credits
MUSC 100 Intro to Music	5
MUSC& 105 Music Appreciation	5
MUSC 115 Group Piano I	2
MUSC 116 Group Piano II	2
MUSC 117 Group Piano III	2
MUSC& 141 Music Theory I	5
MUSC& 142 Music Theory II	5
MUSC& 143 Music Theory III	5
MUSC 160 Great Works of Western Music	5
MUSC 170 History of Jazz	5

Course	Credits
MUSC 111 Swing Choir I*	1-2
MUSC 112 Swing Choir II*	1-2
MUSC 113 Swing Choir III*	1-2
MUSC 115 Group Piano I	2
MUSC 116 Group Piano II	2
MUSC 117 Group Piano II	2
MUSC 124 Orchestra I*	2
MUSC 130 Performance Experience	2
MUSC 134 Beginning Group Guitar	2
MUSC 148 Private Instruction Piano I**	1-2
MUSC 151 Jazz Ensemble I*	1-2
MUSC 152 Jazz Ensemble II*	1-2
MUSC 153 Jazz Ensemble III*	1-2
MUSC 204 Music Technology Workshop	3
MUSC 215 Group Piano IV	2
MUSC 216 Group Piano V	2
MUSC 217 Group Piano VI	2
MUSC 224 Orchestra II	2
MUSC 248 Private Instruction Piano II**	1-2
MUSC 251 Jazz Ensemble IV*	1-2
MUSC 252 Jazz Ensemble V*	1-2
MUSC 253 Jazz Ensemble VI*	1-2
MUSC 270 Musical Theater Workshop	1-5