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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Applied Music - Composition (BM) Academic Degree Map

Location(s): Manhattan Campus


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First Year Hours K-State Core  
Semester 1      
ENGL 100 - Expository Writing I 3 KSC 010  
Mathematics and Statistics Requirement 3 KSC 030  
COMM 106 - Public Speaking I 3 KSC 020  
MUSIC 101 - A New Rhythm: Cultivating a Healthy Life in College and Beyond 1    
MUSIC 210 - Music Theory I 3    
MUSIC 211 - Piano Class I 1    
MUSIC 255 - Lower-Division Performance 1-4    
Any Large Ensemble - See Department List 1    
Total Credits: 16      
       
Semester 2      
ENGL 200 - Expository Writing II OR 3 KSC 010  
ENGL 210 - Honors English 3 KSC 010  
MUSIC 212 - Piano Class II 1    
MUSIC 230 - Music Theory II 3    
MUSIC 231 - Aural Skills I 1    
MUSIC 255 - Lower-Division Performance 1-4    
Any Large Ensemble - See Department List 1    
Free Electives {Institutionally Designated Area} 3 KSC 070  
PHILO 130 - Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Ethical Reasoning Overlay) 3    
Total Credits: 16      
       
Second Year      
Semester 1      
MUSIC 213 - Piano Class III 1    
MUSIC 255 - Lower-Division Performance 1-4    
MUSIC 320 - Music Theory III 3    
MUSIC 321 - Aural Skills II 1    
Natural and Physical Sciences Requirement 4-5 KSC 040  
Any Large Ensemble - See Department List 1    
GWSS 105 - Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies 3    
US Multicultural Overlay 3    
Arts and Humanities Requirement 3 KSC 060  
Total Credits: 17      
       
Semester 2      
MUSIC 214 - Piano Class IV 1    
Any Large Ensemble - See Department List 1    
MUSIC 255 - Lower-Division Performance 1-4    
MUSIC 323 - Lower-Division Composition 1-18    
MUSIC 360 - Music Theory IV 3    
MUSIC 361 - Aural Skills III 1    
Social and Behavioral Sciences Requirement 3 KSC 050  
Global Perspectives Overlay 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Third Year      
Semester 1      
MUSIC 455 - Upper-Division Performance 0-4    
Any Large Ensemble - See Department List 1    
MUSIC 249 - Introduction to Music of the World 3    
MUSIC 323 - Lower-Division Composition 1-18    
MUSIC 365 - Conducting 1    
MUSIC 469 - Instrumentation and Arranging 2    
MUSIC 466 - Music History I: Ancient Greece through 1700 3    
MUSIC 734- Technology of the Electronic Music Studio 2    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
MUSIC 173 - Music as Protest and Propaganda in the United States 3    
Any Large Ensemble - See Department List 1    
MUSIC 323 - Lower-Division Composition 1-18    
MUSIC 455 - Upper-Division Performance 0-4    
MUSIC 501 - Half Recital 0    
MUSIC 467 - Music History II: 1700 to 1850 3    
MUSIC 714 - Advanced Orchestration 2    
Music 700+ Music History Elective      
Free Electives {Institutionally Designated Area} 3 KSC 070  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Fourth Year      
Semester 1      
MUSIC 455 - Upper-Division Performance 0-4    
Any Large Ensemble - See Department List 1    
MUSIC 523 - Upper-Division Composition 0-18    
MUSIC 731 - Music Business 1 2    
MUSIC 724- 18th Century Counterpoint 2    
Music History Elective (see department list) 3    
Music and Humanities Elective 3    
Total Credits: 13      
       
Semester 2      
MUSIC 455 - Upper-Division Performance 0-4    
Any Large Ensemble - See Department List 1    
MUSIC 523 - Upper-Division Composition 0-18    
MUSIC 502 - Full Recital 0    
MUSIC 725- Theories of Contemporary Music 2    
MUSIC 732 - Music Business 2 2    
MUSIC 735 - Digital Sound Synthesis 2    
Music and Humanities Elective 2    
Total Credits: 13      
       
Total Program Hours: 120      

 

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