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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Music, B.A.
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The bachelor of arts degree in music is intended to serve students combining a music degree with interests in one or more of the following:
- A broad liberal arts education.
- Exploration of the interdisciplinary relationship of music coursework to coursework in other areas of the Meadows School and the University as a whole.
- An additional major, a minor or preparation for medical school or law school.
- Preparation for graduate study in music.
- Participation in the SMU Honors Program.
- A term or summer of study abroad.
SMU Degree Requirements
An SMU undergraduate degree requires a minimum of 120 credit hours and must include completion of the University’s Common Curriculum , one major and a combination of electives and/or other majors or minors. Completion of certain majors requires more than 120 hours to finish the degree. The credit hours within this curriculum are distributed as follows:
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Requirements for the Major
Musicianship and Introductory Music Theory (12 Credit Hours)
Musicology (9 Credit Hours)
Music Theory Elective or Musicology Elective (3 Credit Hours)
- MUTH Elective (3000 level or above)
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- MUHI Elective (4000 level)
Class Piano (2 Credit Hours)
Private Instrumental, Vocal, or Composition Studies (6 Credit Hours)
Private Studies 3100, PIAN 3101 concurrently with PIAN 5101 , or composition in combination with private studies
PERE Large Ensemble (4 Enrollments)
PERE Chamber Ensemble (1 Enrollment)
Music/AMAE Electives (12 Credit Hours)
Vocalists are required to take two diction courses from among PERB 2106 , PERB 2107 , PERB 2108 , and PERB 2209 , and need only take 10 hours Music/AMAE electives
Community Experience (1 Credit Hour)
Total for the Major Only: 50 Credit Hours
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