Music in Jazz Studies
Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies
Music degree options: Music Education | Performance | Jazz Studies
Program map
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- Get a check sheet and begin tracking your graduation progress
- Regularly attend performances by music professionals in the area
- Envision and conceptualize your professional career
- Pass your audition at the end of your 2nd semester (performance majors only)
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- Pursue summer work in the field of music
- Begin researching graduate school
- Find a student and faculty mentor
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- Pursue summer work in the field of music
- Visit graduate schools
- Participate in a master class with a non-CSU faculty member or other music professional
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- Pursue summer work in the field of music
- Visit graduate schools and take a lesson with one or more principal applied faculty
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- Complete university's graduate survey
- Consider performing for the Alumni Concert during Homecoming
- Maintain contact with principal applied faculty member for networking and recommendations
Minimum hours needed to obtain a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies: 120
Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies — ENG 1100 or 1101, 1102; MTH 1550; HIS 1110 or HIS 1121 or HIS 1122; three credit hours from List B, Humanities; three credit hours from List C, Health and Social Sciences; three credit hours from List D, Natural and Physical Sciences; USS 1000, one credit from HHP 1101-1121. All students must take MUS 1101, 1102, 1151, 1152, 2201, 2202, 2233, 2271, 2272, 2302, 3311, 3312, 3381, 3382, 3386, 3391, 3392, 3495, 4341, 4342, and 4495; 16 principal applied credit hours; 12 jazz ensemble credit hours; and eight semesters of MUS 1000. In addition, the student must take eight credits of electives. A grade of “C” or better is required in all music courses. A grade of “B” or better is required in Principal Applied courses and ensembles.
A grade of "C" or better is required in all MUS courses.
A grade of "B" or better is required in all Jazz courses.