2024-2025 Catalog 
    
    Dec 13, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog

Music A.F.A.


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Tennessee Transfer Pathways TBR Community Colleges to Tennessee Public Universities
Community College Area of Emphasis: Music A.F.A. Degree

 

Graduates of the program should be able to:   

  • Demonstrate competence in fundamental musical knowledge and skills through analysis, arranging, and part-writing.    

  • Demonstrate competence in fundamental musical knowledge and skills through analytical listening, sight-singing, dictation, and solfege.    

  • Demonstrate competence in fundamental musical knowledge and skills through analytical listening, keyboard orientation, and functional piano playing.   

  • Demonstrate competence in musical performance on his/her primary instrument with precision.   

  • Demonstrate the ability to work with others to accomplish the goal of preparing for and executing a musical performance.    

  • Demonstrate competence in fundamental musical knowledge by describing the music of various composers, and how it reflects the society of each time period. 

General Education Requirements


Communication - 9 Credits


Humanities and/or Fine Arts - 3 Credits ***


Social/Behavioral Sciences - 6 Credits


History - 6 Credits


Natural Sciences - 8 Credits


Mathematics - 3 Credits


General Education Total - 35 Credits


Area of Emphasis Requirements


Area of Emphasis Total - 27 Credits


Total - 62 Credits


Notes:


Students must successfully complete placement requirements in music theory, ear training, and piano at the university where transfer is planned. Students must also successfully complete required university auditions as appropriate.

 

* This course is part of the general education core.

** NSCC course is COMM 2045 - Public Speaking  3 Credits.

*** Students will complete the remaining six hours of the humanities requirement, including one course in literature, at universities upon transfer. Students who plan to transfer to the University of Memphis should complete a course in literature rather than Introduction to Music.

*** These lessons are listed in the catalog as “Applied” + the instrument for which student is taking the lesson and are numbered MUS 1201 through MUS 1224 for the first year of lessons and MUS 2201 through MUS 2224 for the second year of lessons. To fulfill the requirements for the A.F.A. in Music, students must complete eight credit hours of applied lessons and four credit hours of an ensemble appropriate to the applied area.

 

Note:


Additional course requirements: The Tennessee Board of Regents requires that students either demonstrate the appropriate skill levels in math, reading, and/or writing before enrolling in college-level courses or enroll in appropriate co-requisite experiences with college-level courses to develop competency in those skills while performing college-level work. ACT/SAT scores, classic ACCUPLACER test scores, next-generation ACCUPLACER test scores, or other relevant information determine whether a student needs to enroll in co-requisite courses in math, reading, and/or writing (English).

 

 

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