Music Composition, B.Mus. Four-Year Degree Map for Bulletin Year 2018-2019

First Year

Fall Classes - 16 credits	Credits	Spring Classes - 16 credits	Credits
ENGL 1010 Pathways Required Core	3	ENGL 1012 Pathways Required Core	3
Math & Quantitative Reasoning Pathways Required Core	3	Life & Physical Sciences Pathways Required Core	3
MUSC 1300 Pathways Flexible Core: Creative Expression	3	MUSC 3235 Major	4
MUSC 1400 Pathways Flexible Core: Creative Expression	3	MUSC 3211 Major	2
MUSC 3221 Major	1	MUSC 3222 Major	1
MUSC 3251 Major	3	MUSC 3252 Major	3

Second Year

Fall Classes - 16 credits	Credits	Spring Classes - 15 credits	Credits
Individual & Society Pathways Flexible Core	3	MUSC 3213 Major	2
U.S. Experience in Its Diversity Pathways Flexible Core	3	MUSC 3224 Major	1
MUSC 3212 Major	2	MUSC 3237 Major	4
MUSC 3223 Major	1	MUSC 3241 Major	4
MUSC 3236 Major	4	MUSC 3700-81 Major	1
MUSC 3253 Major	3	MUSC 3254 Major	3

Third Year

Fall Classes - 15 credits	Credits	Spring Classes - 15 credits	Credits
MUSC 3214 Major	2	Scientific World Pathways Flexible Core	3
MUSC 3225 or 3791 Major (MUSC 3225 recommended)	2	World Cultures & Global Issues Pathways Flexible Core	3
MUSC 3242 Major	4	MUSC 3226 or 3792 Major (MUSC 3226 recommended)	2
MUSC 3700-81 Major	1	MUSC 3243 Major	4
MUSC 3255 Major	3	MUSC 3256 Major	3
MUSC 3315 Major	3

Fourth Year

Fall Classes - 15 credits	Credits	Spring Classes - 12 credits	Credits
College Option Pathways College Option	3	College Option Pathways College Option	3
College Option Pathways College Option	3	College Option Pathways College Option	3
MUSC 4430-70 or MUSC 4900-level course Major	3	General Elective General Elective (MUSC 4862 recommended as Honors Elective)	3
General Elective General Elective (MUSC 4861 recommended as Honors Elective)	3	General Elective General Elective	3
General Elective General Elective	3

Degree Details

42 Pathways Credits

66 Major Credits

12 General Elective Credits

Students may apply a second major, or a minor, towards their general elective credits.

120 Total Credits

Contact Information

Department of Music
423 Whitehead Hall
Douglas Cohen
dcohen@brooklyn.cuny.edu

The major recommends foreign language or proficiency in addition to the courses listed above. A faculty approved portfolio and approval of the Conservatory faculty are also required for the degree. The portfolio will consist of representative works from required (Music 3251 through Music 3256), elective, and honors composition courses.

Students must submit a portfolio of work for review by a music composition jury at the end of each semester of MUSC 3251-3256 or 4861-4862 (Music Composition). A special jury for students in MUSC 3252 includes evaluation of overall progress in the program, on the basis of which permission to continue in the music composition program is granted or denied.

Students who wish to be considered for performance lessons, MUSC 3791 and 3792, in place of advanced keyboard classes, MUSC 3225 and 3226, must demonstrate proficiency in an audition no later than the beginning of their junior year. Final approval will be given by the director.

All MUSC courses offered to satisfy the requirements for a major in Music must be completed with a grade of C or higher. Music majors must meet with their advisor in the department prior to every semester in order to review their degree progress and to receive registration permissions for their MUSC courses in the following term.

The four-year degree map is designed to help you take the right courses in the right order so you can graduate in four years. It also helps you distinguish what courses qualify as Pathways courses, or Major courses, or General Elective courses. Ideally, you should follow the four-year degree map as closely as possible, but you are free to make some adjustments so long as the prerequisite requirements are satisfied.