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.

Program Outcomes

Career Possibilities

Transfer Options

Industry Connections

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

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Music Contact

johnow@bigbend.edu
(509) 793-2140
Building 1100
Room 1130

Music Faculty/Staff

Owens, John, PhD

Music Faculty

johnow@bigbend.edu

(509) 793-2140