Degree Requirements

• Doctoral Level Composition (664-747/748), 12 cr.
• Seminars (660-926/927-930/915), 15 cr.
• Advanced Independent Work (660-999) and Lecture Recitals (664-999), 1 cr. each
• Colloquium (660-900), 0 cr. -- every semester
• Music Research Methods and Materials (660-619), 3 cr.
• Minor, 10-12 cr.
• Musicology and Music Theory, 9 cr.
• Language requirement; one language at intermediate level (credits and method of completion varies)

The purpose of the doctoral minor is to add breadth and depth to the D.M.A or Ph.D degree. To insure coherence a minor program must be approved by the appropriate department, a student's advisor, or the Director of Graduate Studies, and must include courses at the 300-level or above. Typically, a minor requires 12 credits of work.

Students have a variety of options, including completing an internal minor within the School of Music (e.g., a D.M.A. conducting student who minors in ethnomusicology or a Ph.D. in music theory who minors in clarinet performance), completing a minor in a department outside the School of Music (e.g., a D.M.A. in horn performance who minors in Women's Studies or a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology who minors in East Asian studies). Students may, in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies, devise a distributed minor that brings together courses from a variety of departments around a particular topic or area of interest. For example, a D.M.A. student in voice devises a minor in vocal health that includes courses in communicative disorders, or a Ph.D. student in musicology devises a minor in Medieval History that includes courses in art history, history, and languages.