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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Music Education, BM


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Program Coordinator: Rachel Copeland (A 119-B Fletcher Building; 252-328-4281; skibar@ecu.edu)

Minimum degree requirement is 128 s.h. as follows:

1. General education requirements including those listed below - 40 s.h.


(For information about courses that carry general education credit see General Education Program.)

2. Common core - 67 s.h.


MUSC electives - 2 s.h.


Performance groups - 7 s.h.


Minimum of 5 semesters large ensemble is required. Approval of student’s major applied instructor and ensemble directors is required for ensemble registration.

Music education majors whose primary instrument is wind/percussion must include either two semesters of MUSC 1706  or one semester of MUSC 1706  and one semester of MUSC 3277 .

Music majors may count only two semester hours of Marching Band Field Experience (MUSC 1706 , 1 s.h.) for large ensemble credit. Marching Band (MUSC 1705 , 2 s.h.) may not count toward large ensemble credit for music majors. Music majors taking more than 2 s.h. of MUSC 1706  or MUSC 1705  must sign a release form to be made available in the music office. The form will help clarify that hours above the required 2 s.h. of MUSC 1706  will not count as part of the Music Education degree plan at ECU, and that these extra hours may lead to additional hours on a student’s transcript before graduation.

Minimum of 2 semesters small ensemble

Keyboard and voice majors must include two semesters of MUSC 3287 . Choral Laboratory (1) (F,S) (P: Completion of or enrollment in MUSC 3156  or MUSC 3217  or MUSC 3237  or consent of instructor) as a small ensemble

Music education - 8 s.h.


(*with at least a C in each to be admitted to internship)

3. Applied music - 21 s.h.


(keyboard, string, voice, wind or percussion)

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