Music Major
Music Comprehensive Option
Bachelor of Music
Music Business Emphasis
- General Studies Program Hours = 45
including General Studies coursework required by major
- Foundational Core (Written, Math, Oral, Democracy) = 12 including:
- Portal = 3
- Distribution = 27
- Aesthetics minimum = 3 including:
- Take 1 course from:
- MUS 100GS, Music Appreciation - 3 hours
- MUS 106GS, Introduction to Jazz and Blues - 3 hours
- MUS 107GS, Introduction to Rock and Blues - 3 hours
- Humanities minimum = 6
- Social Sciences minimum = 6 including:
- Natural Sciences minimum = 7
- Analytical and Quantitative Thought minimum = 0
- Wellness minimum = 0
- Capstone = 3
- Major Option = 80
- Minimum total hours required coursework = 125
- Unrestricted electives in 125 hour program = 0
- Minimum total hours required for BM in Music Comprehensive - Music Business Emphasis = 125
- All UNK degrees require a minimum of 125 hours. Forty (40) of the hours required for all UNK degrees
must be upper division hours, which are courses numbered 300 or above taken at a 4-year college or university.
- Music Comprehensive Core Requirements (24 hours required)
- Take all of the following:
- MUS 122, Conducting - 1 hour
- MUS 198, Sight Singing and Ear Training I - 1 hour
- MUS 199, Sight Singing and Ear Training II - 1 hour
- MUS 200, Theory I - 3 hours
- MUS 201, Theory II - 3 hours
- MUS 337, Sight Singing and Ear Training III - 1 hour
- MUS 339, Theory III - 3 hours
- MUS 425, Arranging - 2 hours
- MUS 447, Music History and Literature I - 3 hours
- MUS 448, Music History and Literature II - 3 hours
- Take 3 hours from the following:
- Placement into the appropriate level piano class will be determined by the piano faculty at the
time of the entrance audition.
- MUS 140*, Piano Techniques I - 1 hour
- MUS 141*, Piano Techniques II - 1 hour
- MUS 240*, Piano Techniques III - 1 hour
- MUS 260*, Keyboard Harmonization - 1 hour
- *Requirements may be met through proficiency examination; hours to be replaced by Music
Electives; see advisor.
- Music Business Emphasis Requirements (56 hours required)
- Music Business Emphasis Core Requirements (17-20 hours required)
- Take all of the following:
- MUS 211, Sound Recording and Reinforcement - 2 hours
- MUS 301, Music Technology - 2 hours
- MUS 310, Music Business - 3 hours
- MUS 474, Music Business Project - 1 hour
- MUS 475, Internship in Music Business - 9-12 hours
- Music Business Private Instruction (6 hours required)
- Take 3-5 hours in one area (voice, piano or single band/orchestra instrument) from:
- MUS 150, Private Instruction, Primary Instrument - 1 hour
- Take 1-3 hours in one area (voice, piano or single band/orchestra instrument) from:
- MUS 350, Advanced Private Instruction - 1 hour
- Take 0-2 hours in secondary area from:
- MUS 149, Private Instruction, Secondary Instrument - 1 hour
- Music Business Ensembles (6 hours required)
- Take 6 hours from any of the following:
- MUS 103, University Band - 1 hour
- MUS 104, Symphonic Band - 1 hour
- MUS 105, Wind Ensemble - 1 hour
- MUS 173, Choraleers - 1 hour
- MUS 174, University Men's Chorus - 1 hour
- MUS 176, University Women's Chorus - 1 hour
- MUS 220, Kearney Area Symphony Orchestra - 1 hour
- (MUS 177, MUS 178,
MUS 179, MUS 180 may be substituted
for TWO semesters ONLY.)
- Music Business Emphasis Electives (6 or 9 hours required)
- Music Business Supporting Courses (18 hours required)
- Take all of the following:
- ACCT 250, Principles of Accounting I - 3 hours
- MGT 301, Principles of Management - 3 hours
- MIS 182GS, Software Productivity Tools - 3 hours
- MKT 300, Principles of Marketing - 3 hours
- MKT 331, Professional Selling - 3 hours
- Take 3 hours from the following:
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