Minors and Specializations
As an enrolled undergraduate student, you can complete a minor or specialization in addition to your declared major.
Minors consist of 10–12 credits and are meant to provide you with the opportunity to gain a breadth and depth of understanding in a focused area of study, outside of your declared major.
Specializations are also 10–12 credits and provide a high-level focus on an area within or directly related to your major, and are open only to students within particular majors.
Minors Open to College and Conservatory Students
- Acoustics and Electronics
- American Roots Music
- Business of Live Music
- Conducting
- Creative Coding
- Creative Entrepreneurship
- Dance
- Drama
- Effortless Mastery
- Electronic Performance
- English (including tracks for Creative Writing, Literature, and Spoken Word/Poetry Slam/Performance Poetry)
- History
- Individualized Minor in Liberal Arts
- Instrument Repair
- Mediterranean Music
- Microtonal Music
- Music and Health
- Music and Society (including tracks for Africana Studies, Gender Studies, and Global Studies)
- Music Technology
- Musical Theater Performance
- Musical Theater Writing
- Performance Studies in Latin Music
- Philosophy
- Private Studio Teaching
- Psychology
- Recording and Production for Musicians
- Screen Scoring
- Spanish Arts and Culture
- Stage Management
- Teaching Artistry
- Teaching Contemporary Voice (for voice principals only)
- Theory of Jazz and Popular Song
- Visual Culture and New Media Studies
Specializations Open to College Students Only
Contemporary Writing and Production (CWP), Electronic Production and Design (EPD), Songwriting, and Film Scoring Majors Only
CWP, EPD, and Film Scoring Majors Only
Music Production and Engineering (MPE) Majors Only
Electronic Production and Design (EPD) Majors Only