Diploma
Details and Requirements
The Diploma is given upon completion of a minimum of 70 semester hours (s.h.), as outlined below. A minimum two-year residency is required.
General Requirements
Performance | 16 s.h. |
Major lesson | 16 s.h. |
Additional departmental requirements (listed below) | |
Musical Studies | 43 s.h. |
Core Studies I, II, III, IV | 12 s.h. |
Post-Tonal Harmony | 3 s.h. |
Form | 2 s.h. |
Keyboard Studies I, II, III, IV | 4 s.h. |
Supplementary Piano | 2 s.h. |
Solfege I, II | 8 s.h. |
Advanced Dictation | 2 s.h. |
Music History I, II | 8 s.h. |
Music History Elective | 2 s.h. |
(Some majors require additional performance and musical studies courses: See Additional Departmental Requirements, below.) |
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Career Studies | 1 s.h. |
Social Entrepreneur | 1 s.h. |
Liberal Arts | |
No specific requirements |
Additional Departmental Requirements
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Composition Majors
Performance 14 s.h. Composition Seminars 12 s.h. Supplementary Piano 2 s.h. Musical Studies 6 s.h. Applied Orchestration 4 s.h. Score-Reading 2 s.h. -
Keyboard Majors
(Major Requirements: P=Piano, O=Organ)
Performance 10 s.h. Chamber Music 4 s.h. (P, O) Piano Repertoire Seminar 4 s.h. (P) Supplementary Piano 2 s.h. (O) Graduation Recital – Required (P, O) Organ Class 4 s.h. (O) Early Music Performance 4 s.h. Musical Studies 4 s.h. Keyboard Studies I, II 4 s.h. Career Studies 2 s.h. Sacred Music Seminar 2 s.h. (O) -
Orchestral Instrument Majors
(Major Requirements: T=Timpani/Percussion, Va.=Viola, Clo.=Cello, Vn.=Violin)
Performance 22 s.h. Chamber Music 4 s.h. Orchestra 12 s.h. (age sixteen and older) Orchestral Repertoire Class/Sectionals 4 s.h. (string, woodwind, brass, or percussion) Performance – Required (T) Graduation Recital – Required Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Harp, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, Timpani/Percussion -
Guitar Majors
Performance 8 s.h. Chamber Music 4 s.h. Guitar Seminar 4 s.h. Graduation Recital – Required -
Voice Majors
Performance 28 s.h. Opera Stagings 12 s.h. Diction Coachings 4 s.h. Vocal Performance Seminar 4 s.h. Vocal Repertoire Coaching 8 s.h. Musical Studies 4 s.h. History of Singing 4 s.h.
Transfer Process from the Diploma Program to the Bachelor of Music Program
Diploma students who wish to transfer to the Bachelor’s Program must provide all required application documents by September 1 for a first-semester transfer, or by December 1 for a second-semester transfer.
Diploma students may take no more than two one-semester liberal arts courses prior to an official transfer to the bachelor’s program.