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Music Course Sequence (fall 2022 or before)

This course sequence is for students matriculating in fall 2022 or before.

Note that full-time enrollment requires a minimum of three course units (twelve credits) per semester, but no more than 4.5 units (eighteen credits) without permission (consult your advisor).

Year 1 B.A. in Music majors must pass the Keyboard Proficiency exam in order to graduate. If a student has a background in piano and believes they can pass the proficiency without taking Keyboard Skills classes, they should take the Keyboard Proficiency exam at the end of the fall semester of Year 1. If a student needs to take Keyboard Skills I and II, which cannot be taken until after passing “Musicianship I,” they are strongly encouraged to do so in the spring semester of Year 1 and the fall semester of Year 2, respectively, and to take the Keyboard Proficiency exam at the end of the fall semester of Year 2 in preparation for the Sophomore Review.

First Year

Fall

AMM 099: Arts Comm Seminar

MUS 246: Music in Global Perspective

MUS 261: Musicianship I

First-Year Writing (FYW, if required) or First-Year Seminar (FYS, Writing Intensive)

Music Electives

Spring

AMM 100: Arts Comm Seminar

MUS 351: Music from 600 to 1750

MUS 262: Musicianship II

FYS (if FYW was required) or College Core

Music Electives

Second Year

Fall

MUS 353: Music from 1750 to 1945

MUS 263: Musicianship III

Music Electives

College Core (1–2)

Spring

MUS 452: Music from 1945 to the Present

MUS 264: Musicianship IV

Music Electives

College Core (1–2)

Third Year

Fall

College Core (2–3)

Music Electives and/or Free Electives

Spring

College Core (2–3)

Music Electives and/or Free Electives

Fourth Year

Fall

MUS 494: Capstone

College Core (2–3)

Music Electives and/or Free Electives

Spring

College Core (2–3)

Music Electives and/or Free Electives

Contact

Department of Music
Music Building
The College of New Jersey
P.O. Box 7718
Ewing, NJ 08628

609.771.2551
music@tcnj.edu