Degree Requirements
Program: BA-MSCI-4
The BA in Music Industry is a culturally inclusive, richly diverse, and experiential music program for students who are interested in pursuing careers in the highly diverse music industry. Students from all musical backgrounds are welcome in this program. The program involves many experiential learning opportunities including an internship experience, often at world-class organizations. Through the completion of core music courses, concentration core courses, and music electives, students will experience a music curriculum that responds to current needs and market trends in the music industry.
Music Industry students complete the following music core curriculum and courses for one of the four concentration core curriculums: (1)Popular Music Studies, (2)Music Business, (3)Popular Music Performance, (4)Music Production and Recording.
I. Core Courses (30)
Music Industry majors will take the Internship for 1 credit.
III. Elective Options
Each concentration empowers students to customize their educational experience through music electives. The elective course options for the concentration requirements are:
II. Concentration Requirements (25)
Concentrations provide greater flexibility to students to pursue areas of the music industry that interest them. When combined with the music core curriculum outlined above, concentrations allow for adaptability in responding to mutable market trends in the music industry by prioritizing the practical application of skills for musicians in the twenty-first century.
A. Popular Music Studies
Concentration: POPM
Students will choose 25 credits of elective hours from the list of Electives below.
B. Music Business
Concentration: MUSM
Students will choose 10 credits of elective hours from the list of Electives below.
C. Popular Music Performance
Concentration: PMPR
Students will choose 10 credits of elective hours from the list of Electives below. Additionally, Ensemble requirements are in addition to the required ensembles in the music core.
D. Music Production and Recording
Concentration: PRRC
Students will choose 10 credits of elective hours from the list of Electives below. Additionally, ensemble requirements are in addition to the required ensemble in the music core.
IV. Advanced Writing Requirement