The Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies is a comprehensive program which prepares students for careers in fields which require a combination of jazz performance, composition, and arranging skills.

Courses required for graduation may be categorized as follows:

Jazz Specific Courses

Performance Studies
Improvisation
Jazz Harmony
Arranging for Large and Small Ensembles
Jazz History
Jazz and World Music Ensembles
Jazz Seminar

General Musicianship Courses
Performance Studies
Written Music Theory
Aural Music Theory
Music History
Conducting
Piano

Liberal Studies
Courses that balance professional specialization in music, including languages, mathematics, humanities, sciences, social sciences, and multidisciplinary studies.

 

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