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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Bachelor of Arts in Music, Classical Applied Emphasis


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Laurie McManus, Associate Professor of Music
Ruebush Hall, Room 220, (540) 665-4596, lmcmanus@su.edu

The Bachelor of Arts in Music, Classical Applied Emphasis curriculum is designed for students who are interested in a broad liberal arts education while continuing to pursue music studies. This degree is suitable for students who wish to design a program of study with the flexibility to integrate minor study in an area outside of the Conservatory. Working closely with faculty advisors, B.A. in Music students map out course schedules to find suitable balance between music and their academic emphasis, structuring a plan that appropriately fits the needs of the chosen degree focus. In their final year, B.A. in Music candidates design and present a creative capstone project that synthesizes their music studies.

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.
  • a creative capstone project that synthesizes music studies.

This degree is designed to be completed in three years. Adding a double major outside of the Conservatory is possible by working with faculty advisors to create a four-year degree completion plan.

Course and Credit Requirements


1st Year - Fall


Total: 17.5 credits


1st Year - Spring


Total: 3 credits

Total: 17.5 credits


2nd Year - Fall


  • Credit(s): 3 *
  • Credit(s): .5
  • MUEN Ensemble Credit(s): 2
  • Oral Communication Region Elective Credit(s): 3 
  • Ethical Reasoning Region Elective Credit(s): 3
  • Open Elective(s) Credit(s): 6

Total: 17.5 credits


2nd Year - Spring


Total: 18.5 credits


3rd Year - Fall


  • Credit(s): 3 *
  • or

  • Credit(s): 3 *
  •  

  • Open Conservatory Elective(s) Credit(s): 2 (may include any music, theatre or dance courses where prerequisites have been met; may not include applied study)
  • Open Elective(s) Credit(s): 12

Total: 17 credits


3rd Year - Spring


Total: 17 credits


J-Terms


J-Term 1st Year:

  • Open Elective(s) Credit(s): 3

J-Term 2nd Year:

  • Open Elective(s) Credit(s): 3

J-Term 3rd Year:

  • Open Elective(s) Credit(s): 3

Total: 9 credits


Summer Terms


Summer Term 1st Year:

  • Open Elective(s) Credit(s): 3

Summer Term 2nd Year:

  • Open Elective(s) Credit(s): 3

Total: 6 credits


Degree Total: 120 credits


*Minimum grade of “C” required.

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