About the Music, B.A. Mariachi Concentration
A minimum of 61 hours of music courses, 27 hours of which must be junior or senior level, are required for the Bachelor of Arts degree with a music major, including the following courses. Bachelor of Arts students are required to enroll in four semesters of ensemble and lessons. The degree will provide students an opportunity to participate in a more individualized degree through the choice of elective courses for a minor from outside the major area discipline that is consistent with the university philosophy and policies for a liberal arts degree and complete the general degree requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree. A minimum total of 120 hours is required for this degree.
Required courses include:
Music (6): MUSI 1300 , MUSI 3341
Music Theory (19): MUTH 1103 , MUTH 1104 , MUTH 1303 , MUTH 1304 , MUTH 2103 , MUTH 2104 , MUTH 2303 , MUTH 2304 , MUTH 3303
Music History and Literature (18): MUHL 1309 , MUHL 2301 , MUHL 2308 , MUHL 3302 , MUHL 3303 , MUHL 3305
Music Ensemble (5): 5 semesters of any ensemble except MUEN 1103
Applied Music (4): MUAP 1001 , MUAP 1002 , MUAP 2001 , MUAP 2002
Piano Proficiency: Must pass proficiency level equivalent to MUAP 2124
Minor (18): Completion of a minor (normally 18 hours) in an area outside of music is required. At least 40 hours in the degree (combined across Music, Minor, Core Curriculum, and Electives) must be junior or senior level.
Electives (9): Courses selected by the student in consultation with the Music Academic Program Advisor and, if applicable, faculty in the area(s) where courses are chosen. At least 40 hours in the degree (combined across Music, Minor, Core Curriculum, and Electives) must be junior or senior level.
Communication Literacy Requirement. Communication literacy in music is evidenced by competence in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and performing. This comprehensive approach to “musical” communication literacy is apparent in all undergraduate music degrees by matriculation and completion of our three-semester series of musicology courses (i.e. music as cultural history). There is a very distinct sequential approach to “musical” communication literacy by the orderly completion of these courses with a research paper and basic listening skills enhanced in the form of journals employed in the beginning course of the sequence, MUHL 2301 and further through the culminating course MUHL 3303 , where performance practice, critical listening, and role-playing are the hallmarks of musical integration and communication. Courses in the Communication Literacy plan are (1) MUHL 2301 , (2) MUHL 3302 , and (3) MUHL 3303 .
