| Major Area |
Credit Hours |
Analysis of Tonal Music- MUS 577
or
Analysis of Twentieth Century Music- MUS 578 |
3 |
| *Composition- MUS 542 |
3 |
| Thesis Research and Thesis- MUS 599 |
6 |
|
Sub Total |
12 |
|
|
| Choose Four courses from the following |
|
| Survey of Music Theory- MUS 573 |
3 |
| Research and Bibliography- MUS 515 |
3 |
| Music Theory Pedagogy- MUS 575 |
6 |
| Seminar in Music History- MUS 561 |
|
| Seminar in Music History- MUS 562 |
|
|
Sub Total |
12 |
| Electives |
|
| Free Electives- Any 400G or 500 level MUS course |
6 |
|
Sub Total |
6 |
* For the student planning on writing a theoretical thesis, this course may be replaced with either MUS577 or 578, whichever one the student did not take previously. |
|
|
Total |
30 |
All full-time students must participate in a minimum of one major ensemble each semester whether or not the student has an assistantship.