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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Contemporary Musicianship and Entrepreneur Development (B.A.)


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Roderick Vester, Assistant Professor of Music
Ruebush Hall, Room 242, (540) 665-4600, rvester@su.edu

The Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Musicianship and Entrepreneur Development (CMED) offers a dynamic curriculum that prepares students to be employable, innovative creators with exceptional musicianship, entrepreneurial, marketing and business skills (critical areas that drive today’s music industry). 

The course of study will incorporate the following:

  • at least 30 hours must be at the 300 or 400 level. No more than 12 hours of university general education hours may be counted toward this requirement.

Program Outcomes

Students completing the Contemporary Musicianship and Entrepreneur Development program will be able to:

  • design, develop and complete collaborative projects appropriate to their discipline and career goals;
  • demonstrate music foundations central to the practice of contemporary musicianship;
  • utilize design thinking to evaluate real-world problems; and
  • promote original ideas by mastering oral and visual presentation skills.

Course and Credit Requirements


1st Year – Fall


Total for Songwriting Majors: 17 credits


Total for All Other Majors: 16.5 credits


1st Year – Spring


Total for Songwriting Majors: 17 credits


Total for All Other Majors: 16.5 credits


2nd Year – Fall


Total for Songwriting Majors: 15.5 credits


Total for All Other Majors: 15 credits


2nd Year – Spring


Total for Songwriting Majors: 16.5 credits


Total for All Other Majors: 16 credits


3rd Year – Fall


Total for Songwriting Majors: 13.5 credits


Total for All Other Majors: 14.5 credits


3rd Year – Spring


Total for Songwriting Majors: 13.5 credits


Total for All Other Majors: 14.5 credits


4th Year – Fall


Total: 16.5 credits


4th Year – Spring


Total: 14.5 credits


Degree Total: 124 credits


*Minimum grade of “C” required.



^Basic Musicianship Proficiency Exam offered.



(ALT) Offered on alternating schedule; consult with advisor.

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