When you enroll at Susquehanna, you’ll be paired with an advisor and application tool to guide you in your course planning and scheduling. The following is an excerpt from the complete course catalog. Enrolled students follow the requirements of the course catalog for the academic year in which they declare each major and/or minor, consult with their advisor(s) and the Academic Planning Tool.
Learning Goals
- Performance—Students integrate technical skills and knowledge to be able to complete a successful performance in a particular area of concentration.
- Aural skills and analysis.
- Music history—Students can place music in historical, cultural and stylistic contexts.
- Composition and improvisation.
- Technology—Students identify and employ appropriate technology applicable to their area of specialization.
- Synthesis—Students integrate their music studies through a means appropriate to their curriculum.
Students in the music department may, with department head approval, complete a music technology minor in addition to a major in music.
Double-counting restriction
Students pursuing a major in the music department may double-count a maximum of 8 semester hours toward another major or minor.
Music Opportunities for Non-Music Majors
The department provides a variety of music opportunities for all students, regardless of their majors and career goals. Nonmajors may take upper-level music courses with permission of the instructor. The department also welcomes nonmajors in performing groups and private study upon a successful audition or permission from the instructor.
Bachelor of Arts in Music
Students interested in combining a solid foundation in music with the opportunity to pursue in-depth study in another area may choose this degree. The Bachelor of Arts capstone may be an independent study project in music or a department-approved recital. (MUSC-506 Independent Study for two semester hours is always used for Bachelor of Arts capstone registration). Students who are double majors may elect a capstone in the other major in place of or in addition to the music capstone. Students complete university Central Curriculum requirements plus the following courses with a minimum GPA of 2.00. Each course below must be completed with a minimum grade of C-.
12 Music Literature
2 MUSC-152 Survey of World Music
4 MUSC-245 The Music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Eras
4 MUSC-250 The Music of the Classic and Romantic Eras
2 MUSC-350 20th-Century Music
8 Music Theory
2 MUSC-161 Theory I: Diatonic Harmony
2 MUSC-162 Theory II: Chromatic Harmony
2 MUSC-163 Ear Training I
2 MUSC-164 Ear Training II
14 Applied Music (instrumental and vocal concentrates)
6 Major Lesson (6 semesters of half-hour lessons)
1 MUSC-034 Piano Class I
1 MUSC-035 Piano Class II
0 MUSC-555 Forum (6 semesters)
6 Large Ensemble (6 semesters)
16 Applied Music (keyboard concentrates)
6 Major Lesson (6 semester of half-hour lessons)
0-1 MUSC-037 Piano Class III
1 MUSC-038 Piano Technique (for piano concentrates only)
2-3 MUSC-066 Collaborative Piano (third semester for keyboard concentrates who place out of MUSC- 037)
0 MUSC-555 Forum (6 semesters)
4 Large Ensemble
2 Collaborative/Medium/Small Ensemble (keyboard concentrates)
7-10 Additional Semester Hours
4 Any music course other than lessons or ensembles
0-2 MUSC-506 Independent Study in Music (if capstone requirement is fulfilled in music; otherwise no independent study required)
3-4 Any two of the following:
2 MUSC-261 Theory III: Advanced Harmony
2 MUSC-262 Theory IV: Form and Analysis
2 MUSC-263 Ear Training III
2 MUSC-265 Ear Training IV
1 MUSC-037 Piano Class III (not for keyboard concentrates)
4 Semester hours from course(s) with the THEA, ARTG, ARTH or ARTS prefixes or PHIL-235 Aesthetics or HONS-210 Thought and the Arts.
Applied Music Lessons
Lessons carry one or two semester hours of credit. Students earn credit of one semester hour for a weekly half-hour lesson. Bachelor of Arts majors take a one-semester-hour lesson on their major instrument. Music education majors and performance majors take a weekly one-hour lesson on their major instrument and receive two semester hours of credit.
A fee is charged per semester for individual lessons that are not stated specifically as curricular requirements (nonmajors or extra lessons for majors). Such lessons are contingent upon faculty availability within the normal teaching load.
