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Minor in Music

A. Music Minors (other than Jazz)

1. Core requirements, taken by all minors (3 courses):
Music 100 Studying Music Historically and Critically
Music 121 Music Theory I
Music 141 Computers and Music

2. Minor Concentrations (3 additional courses each):
(a) Minor in Performance
4 semester of Music 180 (Private Lessons for credit; note that acceptance to the minor in music
performance requires approval of Music 180 instructor and full-time music faculty) 1 additional music course

(b) Minor in History/Criticism
3 Music History courses (from Music 101, 102, 104, 210)

(c) Minor in Theory/Composition
Music 122 Theory II
2 Music Theory/Composition courses (from Music 128, 220, 223, 224)

(d) Minor in Music Technology
Music 142 (Computer Music II)
Music 160/220 Soundtracks
Music 200 New Media Seminar

B. Minor in Jazz Studies
Music 100 or 104
Music 121 Music Theory I
Music 141 Computers and Music
Music 151 Jazz History
1 pertinent course in 20th-century American History and/or Communications and Culture
a minimum of 2 semesters of Music 180 on a jazz instrument (note: an independent study in Jazz
Theory/Composition may be substituted for one of these semesters)
2 semesters participation in the Jazz Workshop or Combo