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 (open to B.A. students)
- Africana Studies (open to B.A. students)
- American Roots Music
- Business of Live Music (open to B.A. students)
- Cirque/Circus Arts (open to B.A. students)
- Classical Music
- Conducting
- Contemporary Writing
- Creative Coding
- Creative Entrepreneurship (open to B.A. students)
- Dance (open to B.A. students)
- Drama (open to B.A. students)
- Effortless Mastery
- Electronic Performance
- English (open to B.A. students; offers tracks in Creative Writing, Literature, and Spoken Word/Poetry Slam/Performance Poetry)
- Film and Media Scoring
- Game and Interactive Media Scoring
- Gospel Keyboard Performance Styles
- History (open to B.A. students)
- Individualized Minor in Liberal Arts (open to B.A. students)
- Instrument Repair (open to B.A. students)
- Latin Music
- Mediterranean Music
- Microtonal Music
- Music and Health
- Music and Society (open to B.A. students; including tracks for Africana Studies, Gender Studies, and Global Studies)
- Music Technology
- Musical Theater Performance
- Musical Theater Writing
- Philosophy (open to B.A. students)
- Private Studio Teaching
- Psychology (open to B.A. students)
- Recording and Production for Musicians
- Spanish Arts and Culture (open to B.A. students)
- Stage Management (not currently accepting students)
- Teaching Artistry
- Teaching Contemporary Voice (for voice principals and majors only)
- Theory of Jazz and Popular Song
- Visual Culture and New Media Studies (open to B.A. students)
Specializations
Contemporary Writing and Production (CWP), Electronic Production and Design (EPD), Songwriting, and Film Scoring Majors Only
Music Production and Engineering (MP&E) Majors Only
Electronic Production and Design (EPD) Majors Only