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2018-2019 SUNY Potsdam Academic Catalog 
    
2018-2019 SUNY Potsdam Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Music Education - Band Track, B.M.


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General Education Requirements


Candidates for the B.M. degree must satisfy the General Education requirements described below. Information for each specific degree program can be found on the Crane website: www.potsdam.edu/Crane (click on “Current Crane Students” and then “Degree Plans” and select the Academic Year for the year the student entered college).

The liberal arts courses and other College requirements must be distributed as follows:

General Education Foundations: 7 Credits Minimum


Communication Experience: 4 Credits


[FW] First-Year Writing (1 course)

Quantitative Experience: 3 Credits


[FM] First-Year Mathematics (1 course)

Critical Thinking Experience:


FC courses can double count for another General Education requirement or Liberal Arts Elective.

[FC] Critical Thinking (1 course)

Music Education Majors:


The Modes of Inquiry: 9 Credits


*No more than eight credits taken in Crane may be applied to the Modes of Inquiry. As the WC, AE, and AC requirements are met by required music courses, most students take the XC outside of Crane. If a student wanted to use an XC course within Crane, they would need to take 3 credits of WC/AH or three credits of AC outside of Crane.

Scientific Inquiry [SP] or [SB]: 3 Credits


Physical or Biological (1 course)

A laboratory experience (1 credit) is optional, but not required

Social Analysis [SA]: 3 Credits


(1 course)

Music Education Majors:

Music Business Majors:

*Western Civilization [WC] or American History [AH]: 3 Credits


Requirement (1 course) met through the music curriculum

*Cross-Cultural Perspective [XC]: 3 Credits


(1 course)

Requirement can be met through music elective, but is typically taken outside Crane as other Modes of Inquiry are covered by required music curriculum.

*Aesthetic Experiential [AE]: 2 Credits


Requirement (1 course) met through the music curriculum.

*Aesthetic Critical [AC]: 3 Credits


Requirement (1 course) met through the music curriculum.

Language Proficiency: 3 Credits


Requirement (1 course) must be met as defined by SUNY Potsdam. See General Education  Manual for more information. Modern Language courses are counted as liberal arts electives.

Physical Education/Health and Wellness (PE/HW): 1-2 Credits


2 experiences. See General Education  section.

Music Education Majors:


Total Credit Hours Required: 17-18


Program Requirements


Non-Music Liberal Arts Electives: 8 Credits


[includes 6 credits required for state teacher certification, see below]

Basic Musicianship Sequence: 29 Credits Required for Bachelor of Music Degrees


Students with a studio emphasis in piano are exempt from the two Keyboard Skills courses, but will take @MUCC 303  regardless of track.

 

Music Electives: 3 Credits


(limit one ensemble per semester)

Upper Division Music History or Theory Elective: 3 Credits


Upper Division Music Education Elective: 3 Credits


Required Courses for State Certification: 3 Credits


Band Track: 61.5 Credits


Note(s)


  • Students are accepted for admission who demonstrate by audition the potential to accomplish Level A in area of applied study by the end of the fourth semester. If the Level A is not satisfactorily completed by the end of the fourth semester, a change of applied area or curriculum may be recommended.
  • The minimum performance requirement for the major in Music Education is satisfactory completion of Level A and the performance of a 30-minute recital.
  • To enter the Music Education program, SUNY requires entering students have a 3.0 or better GPA coming in. The GPA considered will be the most recent GPA, achieved prior to entering the program. This will either be the overall high school GPA, the overall GPA from another college (two- or four-year) for transfer students, or overall SUNY Potsdam GPA for current SUNY Potsdam students.
  • To remain in the Music Education program, it is necessary to have a minimum overall grade point average of 2.5 and a 3.0 music GPA.

Total Credit Hours Required: 124.5 (minimum)


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