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Music Performance - Percussion, Saxophone, String Bass, Trumpet, Guitar, and Keyboard (Jazz Studies)

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Music Performance - Percussion, Saxophone, String Bass, Trumpet, Guitar, and Keyboard (Jazz Studies) (120 Credits)

This option with an emphasis in jazz is available to students whose major instruments are percussion, saxophone, string bass, trumpet, guitar, or keyboard.

Requirements include: junior and senior qualifying exams; piano proficiency exam; 2.5 average in all music courses; C or better in all music courses; junior and senior recitals.
First Year
First TermCredits
Applied MUS (300-level)4
ENGLISH 101 [WRTG]3
MUS 25113
MUS 25211
MUS Ensemble 428-44421
Physical Sciences [PSCI] with lab or SCIENCE 102 [SCI]34
Second TermCredits
Applied MUS (300-level)4
HISTORY 105 [ROOT]3
Humanities [HUM]3
MUS 1641
MUS 18140-1
MUS 25353
MUS 25451
MUS Ensemble 428-44421
Second Year
First TermCredits
Applied MUS (300-level)4
Communication [COMM] or Written Communication [WRTG]3
MUS 18240-1
MUS 25762
MUS 35113
MUS 35211
MUS Ensemble 428-44421
Social Sciences [SSCI]3
Second TermCredits
Applied MUS (300-level)4
MUS 28140-1
MUS 35353
MUS 35451
MUS 359 [HUM] [M]5,73
MUS Ensemble 428-44421
Quantitative Reasoning [QUAN]3
Complete Writing Portfolio
Third Year
First TermCredits
Applied MUS (300 or 400-level)4
Creative & Professional Arts [ARTS]3
Jazz Ensemble - MUS 438, 439, 44021
MUS 25812
MUS 360 [M]13
MUS 45762
Second TermCredits
Applied MUS (300 or 400-level)4
Diversity [DIVR]3
Jazz Ensemble - MUS 438, 439, 44021
MUS 36153
MUS 45882
Secondary Instrument or MUS 3192
Fourth Year
First TermCredits
Applied MUS (300 or 400-level)4
Biological Sciences [BSCI] with lab or SCIENCE 101 [SCI]34
Jazz Ensemble - MUS 438, 439, 44021
MUS 3623
MUS 482 11
Second TermCredits
Applied MUS (400-level)4
Integrative Capstone [CAPS]3
Jazz Ensemble - MUS 438, 439, 44021
MUS Electives5

Footnotes
1Fall only.
2Music Ensembles: a minimum of one credit per semester. 3 credits taken from ensemble courses designated as ARTS fulfill the [ARTS] UCORE requirement.
3Two lab sciences required to fulfill the College of Arts and Sciences Requirement.
4Class piano credits not required in degree.
5Spring only.
6Fall, alternate years only.
7MUS 359 fulfills the College of Arts and Sciences additional 3-unit requirement.
8Spring, alternate years only.

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