Minor

Music Minor
Completion of eighteen (18) Credit Hours
MUSI 1311 Elementary Harmony I
Additional fifteen (15) credit hours of music, six (6) of which must be upper-level.  (Students may earn no more than one (1) credit hour per semester for performance study and no more than one (1) credit hour of ensemble/lab study per semester.)

Below are recommended course groupings for music minor.  (NOTE: These recommendations are provided to inform students of courses available to them that require no or minimal course prerequisites and require no specific musical training or background.  Instructor consent or a performance audition may be required for some of the courses.  Students are encouraged to select the music courses of greatest interest to them regardless of the inclusion or exclusion of those courses in the list below.)

Worship Arts
MUSI 3360 The Worship of God
MUSI 3361 Worship Music
MUSI 4369 Music Ministry Leadership
MUSI 5300 Christian Worship and the Contemporary Church (graduate course)
 

Music Education  (NOTE: does not lead to teacher certification)
MUSI 2100 Introduction to Music Education
MUSI 3301 Music for Elementary Education
MUSI 4201 Materials and Resources for Elementary Music Education
MUSI 4202 Elementary Music Curriculum and Instruction
MUSI 4210 Teaching Choral Music
MUSI 4211 Choral Music Administration
MUSI 4212 Teaching Instrumental Music and Band Administration
MUSI 4213 Marching Band Techniques
Instrumental Methods Courses
  MUSI 2103 Instrumental Methods
  MUSI 2109, 2110 Woodwind Methods I, II
  MUSI 2118 Percussion Methods
  MUSI 2127 Brass Methods
  MUSI 2123 String Methods
  MUSI 2124 Choral Methods
 

Performance
Applied study is available each semester in voice, piano, organ, and wind and percussion instruments as faculty loads permit.  Music majors and students who have officially declared as a music minor will be given primary consideration for applied instruction.  Four (4) credit hours of applied study taken in four (4) separate semesters are required before upper-level applied study will be allowed.
Ensemble Courses
MUSI 1120 Handbell Choir
MUSI 1130 Symphonic Band
MUSI 1133 Marching Band
MUSI 1138 Chamber Music Ensembles
MUSI 1150 Chapel Choir
MUSI 1157 Opera Workshop
MUSI 1159 Musical Theatre
MUSI 2150 Concert Choir
 

General Music Instruction
FNAT 1306 Appreciation of the Arts
MUSI 1314 Jazz in America
MUSI 3213 Introduction to Music
MUSI 3350 History of Jazz
NOTE: A student may not receive credit for both MUSI 1314 and MUSI 3350.