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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Applied Music - Vocal Performance (BM) Academic Degree Map

Location(s): Manhattan Campus


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
Any Large Ensemble (See Department List) 1    
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   
Total Credits: 17      
       
Semester 2      
ENGL 200  - Expository Writing II  OR 3   KSC 010  
ENGL 210  - Honors English   3   KSC 010  
Any Large Ensemble (See Department List) 1    
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       
PHILO 130   -Introduction to Moral Philosophy   (Ethical Reasoning Overlay) 3      
Free Electives {Institutionally Designated Area} 3 KSC 070  
Total Credits: 17      
       
Second Year      
Semester 1      
MUSIC 213  - Piano Class III   1      
Any Large Ensemble - See Department List 1    
MUSIC 233   - English Diction   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  
POLSC 145  - World Politics   (Global Perspective Overlay) 3   KSC 050  
Total Credits: 16      
       
Semester 2      
MUSIC 214   - Piano Class IV   1      
Any Large Ensemble (See Department List) 1    
MUSIC 255   -Lower-Division Performance   1-4      
MUSIC 360   - Music Theory IV   3      
MUSIC 361   - Aural Skills III   1      
GWSS 105   - Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies   (US Multicultural Overlay) 3   KSC 050  
Arts and Humanities Requirement (Other than MUSIC) 3 KSC 060  
Free Electives {Institutionally Designated Area} 3 KSC 070  
Total Credits: 17      
       
Third Year      
Semester 1      
MUSIC 173   - Music as Protest and Propaganda in the United States   3      
Any Large Ensemble - See Department List 1    
MUSIC 241   - Italian Diction   1      
MUSIC 365   - Conducting   1      
MUSIC 469   - Instrumentation and Arranging   2      
MUSIC 466   - Music History I: Ancient Greece to Beethoven    3   
MUSIC 475   - Opera Workshop   1-18      
MUSIC 455   - Upper-Division Performance   0-4      
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
MUSIC 268   - Vocal Pedagogy   2      
Any Large Ensemble (See Department List) 1    
MUSIC 249   - Introduction to Music of the World   3      
MUSIC 455  - Upper-Division Performance   0-4       
MUSIC 501   - Half Recital   1       
MUSIC 467   - Music History II: Beethoven to Present   3     
MUSIC 475  - Opera Workshop   1-18      
Total Credits: 14      
       
Fourth Year      
Semester 1      
MUSIC 243   - German Diction   1       
Any Large Ensemble (See Department List) 1    
MUSIC 455  - Upper-Division Performance   0-4       
MUSIC 475   - Opera Workshop   1-18       
MUSIC 726   - History of the Opera   3       
MUSIC 731   - Music Business 1   2       
Music/Humanities Elective 1    
Total Credits: 12      
       
Semester 2      
MUSIC 242   - French Diction   1     
Any Large Ensemble (See Department List) 1    
MUSIC 455  - Upper-Division Performance   0-4       
MUSIC 464   - Methods and Materials for the Studio    2    
MUSIC 475   - Opera Workshop     1-18   
MUSIC 502  - Full Recital   2      
MUSIC 706   - Song Literature   3       
Total Credits: 12      
       
Total Program Hours: 120