Music Education, B.Mus. Four-Year Degree Map for Bulletin Year 2019-2020

First Year

Fall Classes - 16 credits	Credits	Spring Classes - 16 credits	Credits
ENGL 1010: English Composition I Pathways Required Core	3	ENGL 1012: English Composition II Pathways Required Core	3
Math & Quantitative Reasoning Pathways Required Core	3	Life & Physical Sciences Pathways Required Core	3
MUSC 1300: Its Language, History, and Culture Major (Also satisfies Pathways Creative Expression)	3	MUSC 3792: Performance II Major	2
MUSC 1400: Fundamentals of Music Major (Also satisfies Pathways Creative Expression)	3	MUSC 3700 through 3781 Major	1
MUSC 3791: Performance I Major	2	MUSC 3235: Theory I: Eighteenth-Century Studies Major	4
MUSC 3700 through 3781 Major	1	MUSC 3211: Introductory Studies in Musicianship: Ear Training I Major	2
MUSC 3221: Keyboard workshop I Major	1	MUSC 3222: Keyboard Workshop II Major	1

Second Year

Fall Classes - 17 credits	Credits	Spring Classes - 17 credits	Credits
U.S. Experience in Its Diversity Pathways Flexible Core	3	MUSC 3213: Nineteenth-Century Studies: Ear Training III Major	2
MUSC 2530, or MUSC 2520 & 3590 Major/Music Education (MUSC 2530 recommended)	3	MUSC 3224: Keyboard Workshop IV Major	1
MUSC 2510: Music Education Colloquium Major/Music Education	0	MUSC 3237: Theory III: Modern and Contemporary Studies Major	4
MUSC 3600 through 3661 Major/Music Education	1	MUSC 3241W: Music History and Score Analysis I: Ancient Music through 1750 Major	4
MUSC 3212: Eighteenth-Century Studies: Ear Training II Major	2	MUSC 3700 through 3781 Major	1
MUSC 3223: Keyboard Workshop III Major	1	MUSC 3794: Performance IV Major	2
MUSC 3236: Advanced Keyboard Workshop 2 Major	4	MUSC 2510: Music Education Colloquium Major/Music Education	0
MUSC 3793: Performance III Major	2	SEED 2001: Historical, Philosophical, and Cultural Foundations of Education Major/Education (Also fulfills Pathways Individual & Society)	3
MUSC 3700 through 3781 Major	1

Third Year

Fall Classes - 16 credits	Credits	Spring Classes - 14 credits	Credits
MUSC 3214: Twentieth-Century Studies: Ear Training IV Major	2	College Option Pathways College Option	3
MUSC 3795: MUSC 3795 Performance V Major	2	MUSC 3796: Performance VI Major	2
MUSC 3242: Music History and Score Analysis II: Late 18th and 19th Century Major	4	MUSC 3243: Music History and Score Analysis III: Twentieth-Century to the Present Major	4
MUSC 3700 through 3781 Major	1	MUSC 3700 through 3781 Major	1
MUSC 3581: Music in the Elementary Schools Major/Music Education	3	MUSC 3582: Music in the Secondary Schools Major/Music Education	3
MUSC 2510: Music Education Colloquium Major/Music Education	0	MUSC 2510: Music Education Colloquium Major/Music Education	0
MUSC 3600 through 3661 Major/Music Education	1	MUSC 3600 through 3661 Major/Music Education	1
SEED 2002: Children and Youth in Urban Education: Developmental, Psychological and Sociological Perspectives Major/Education	3

Fourth Year

Fall Classes - 16 credits	Credits	Spring Classes - 15 credits	Credits
World Cultures & Global Issues Pathways Flexible Core	3	College Option Pathways College Option	3
Scientific World Pathways Flexible Core	3	College Option Pathways College Option	3
MUSC 4430 through 4449 Major	3	College Option Pathways College Option	3
MUSC 3583: Music in Special Education Major/Music Education	3	SEED 4413: Seminar on Teaching Methods of Music Education, Student Teaching I and II Major/Education	6
MUSC 3352 or 3350 Major/Music Education (MUSC 3352 recommended)	3
MUSC 3600 through 3661 Major/Music Education	1

Degree Details

33 Pathways Credits*

94 Major Credits

63 Music Core credits

19 Music Education Credits

12 Education Credits

127 Total Credits

Contact Information

Department of Music
423 Whitehead Hall
Douglas Cohen, Asst. Director
dcohen@brooklyn.cuny.edu

*The Pathways curriculum is typically 42 credits. However, the Music Education major includes three courses (MUSC 1300, MUSC 1400, and SEED 2001) that also satisfy Pathways requirements. Therefore, students majoring in Music Education only need to complete 33 additional Pathways credits.

The major recommends foreign language or proficiency in addition to the courses listed above.

Students must have a GPA of 2.70 or higher based on a minimum of 30 credits in liberal arts and sciences to take SEED 2001 and 2002. Students must have a B- in both SEED 2001 and 2002 and a GPA of 2.75 or higher based on a minimum of 30 credits in liberal arts and sciences to continue to SEED 3401, and/or SEED 3402, and/or SEED 3456. Students must have a GPA of 2.75 or higher and permission of the head of the program to take SEED 4413. Students must have a GPA of 2.75 or higher, a B- or better in both SEED 3401 and 3402, and/or permission of the head of the program, to take SEED 4401-4406. Students must earn a B- or higher in SEED 4401-4406, a GPA of 2.75 or higher in their major, and the permission of the head of the program, to take SEED 4407-4412.

All MUSC courses offered to satisfy the requirements for a major in Music must be completed with a grade of C or higher. Music majors must meet with their advisor in the department prior to every semester in order to review their degree progress and to receive registration permissions for their MUSC courses in the following term.

The four-year degree map is designed to help you take the right courses in the right order so you can graduate in four years. It also helps you distinguish what courses qualify as Pathways courses, or Major courses, or General Elective courses. Ideally, you should follow the four-year degree map as closely as possible, but you are free to make some adjustments so long as the prerequisite requirements are satisfied.

In conjunction with the four-year degree map, you should review Degree Works, and the Brooklyn College website, for an approved list of courses in your major. Overall, it is best to review your academic plan with your advisor on a regular basis.