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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

School of Music


Music Education - Instrumental Piano Concentration BM Four-Year Plan

FALL SPRING
First Year
ENGL 110 - First-Year Writing   MUSC 152 - Private Study for Bachelor of Music II  
MUSC 151 - Private Study for Bachelor of Music I   MUSC 155 - Private Study for Secondary and Merit I   
MUSC 155 - Private Study for Secondary and Merit I   MUSC 174 - Directing School Choirs    
MUSC 184 - Music Fundamentals: Theory and Fluency   MUSC 186 - Aural Skills II  
MUSC 185 - Aural Skills I     MUSC 195 - Foundations of Music Theory  
MUED 179 - Freshman Seminar in Music Education   MUSC 460  or MUSC 461  or MUSC 462  or MUSC 463  
HDFS 201 - Life Span Development  or Breadth Requirement (1/5) Mathematics Requirement*
Ensemble Elective (1/7)* EDUC 414 - Teaching Exceptional Adolescents  
First Year Seminar MUED 216  or MUED 218  or MUED 222  
MUED 214  or MUED 215  or MUED 217   Ensemble Elective (2/7)*
Credits: 16 Credits: 18
Second Year
HDFS 202 - Diversity and Families  or MUED 270 - Critical Issues in Music Education  (Multicultural) HDFS 201 - Life Span Development  or Breadth Requirement (2/5)
MUED 214  or MUED 215  or MUED 217   MUED 277 - Musicianship for Teaching  
MUSC 155 - Private Study for Secondary and Merit I   MUED 216  or MUED 218  or MUED 222  
MUSC 196 - Musical Objects: Analysis and Application   MUSC 155 - Private Study for Secondary and Merit I     
MUSC 211 - Music, History, and Ideas   MUSC 212  or MUSC Elective
MUSC 251 - Private Study for Bachelor of Music III   MUSC 252 - Private Study for Bachelor of Music IV  
MUSC 285 - Aural Skills III      MUSC 286 - Aural Skills IV  
Ensemble Elective (3/7)*  Music Theory - course offerings vary by term
  Ensemble Elective (4/7)*
Credits: 16 Credits: 17-18
Third Year**
Music Theory - course offerings vary by term  Breadth Requirement (4/5)
MUSC 213  or Music History Period Course* MUED 337 - Instrumental Conducting   
MUSC 335 - Basic Conducting   MUED 379 - Instrumental Music in Elementary and Middle School   
MUSC 351 - Private Study for Music Education V   MUED 219 - Percussion Instruments  
MUED 377 - Elementary General Music Methods   MUSC 352 - Private Study for Music Education VI  
Breadth Requirement (3/5) MUSC 411   or Music History Period Course* 
Ensemble Elective (5/7)* Ensemble Elective (6/7)*
MUED 214  or MUED 215  or MUED 217   MUSC Elective
Credits: 17-18 Credits: 17
Fourth Year**
Breadth Requirement (5/5) EDUC 400 - Student Teaching  (twelve credits) (DLE and Capstone)
MUED 479 - Secondary Music Materials and Approaches     
MUSC 301 - Junior Recital    
MUSC 411  or MUSC Elective  
MUSC 451 - Private Study for Music Education VII    
Ensemble Elective (7/7)*  
Free Elective  
Credits: 14 Credits: 12
Total Credits: 127
     *See program page for approved courses.

Disclaimer: Four-Year Plans are a Departmental suggestion of how a student could complete this degree in four years (eight semesters). Students may opt to take courses in the summer or winter sessions. These plans do not take into account additional requirements brought on by minors or other majors. A Four-Year Plan is subject to change from year-to-year given the resources and focuses of the Department.  It is the student’s responsibility to meet with his or her assigned advisor at least once a semester to monitor progress and ensure that he or she is on track to graduate on time. This document is intended as a supplemental advisement tool to be used in conjunction with in-person advisement and the UDSIS Degree Audit.  Students should direct any questions or concerns regarding degree progress to their advisor or Academic Assistant Dean.