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This minor is for those who want to complement their skills and increase their career options.
An audition and a minimum 2.0 g.p.a. is required for all courses in the minor. Courses must be taken for a grade (not credit/no-credit). Students planning to take this minor should consult with the chief departmental adviser. This minor is not available to students majoring in Music Performance or Music Education.

This minor is for those who want to complement their education with creative study in music composition. The program covers a basic musical background in the first two years followed by specialized compositional study in the remaining courses.
A minimum 2.0 g.p.a. is required for all courses in the minor. Courses must be taken for a grade (not credit/no-credit). Students planning to take this minor should consult with the chief departmental adviser. This minor is open to all university students.

Miami offers two programs in music education—choral/general music and instrumental music that are geared toward students interested in teaching general music, choral music, band, and orchestra in schools. Offered through the School of Fine Arts, both programs prepare you for licensure as a music teacher in Ohio Public Schools from pre-kindergarten through grade 12.
What are the features of Miami’s program?
Small classes: As a music student at Miami, you’ll benefit from the 6:1 student:faculty ratio and a balanced program of music, education, and liberal arts studies.
Extensive classroom experience: Our teacher education program gives you more classroom experiences than most programs at other universities. Early in your second year, you get a feel for teaching by spending time in school classrooms. In methodology of teaching classes, you spend a quarter of the term in schools, working directly with teachers. And during the semester of student teaching, you are regularly visited by a Miami student-teaching supervisor for consultation and guidance.
Professional education sequence: Teaching requires such knowledge as the characteristics of learners, social structures of schools, families and communities, assessment techniques, classroom practices, law, statistics, electronic support systems, curriculum, and resources. In the professional education sequence, you investigate this knowledge and combine it with extensive experiences in a variety of schools. As you progress through the professional education sequence, you spend increasing time with experienced teachers in a variety of urban, suburban, and rural schools. Your experiences will range from helping individual students in the schools to being responsible for an entire classroom of students.
Teaching licensure: Miami’s Department of Music is fully accredited by the Ohio Department of Education and the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. While Miami participates in licensure of teachers through an interstate agreement, if you are planning to teach in another state, you should contact that state’s certification office so you can apply for certification or licensure in that state.
Are there special admission requirements?
Yes, your admission into the music education program requires an audition. In addition, admission to sophomore and junior courses in music education is contingent upon a minimum overall g.p.a. of 2.25 and a minimum g.p.a. of 2.75 in all music courses.
What courses would I take?
For this major, coursework includes music theory, history, and applied music. You choose at least one specific concentration in a music area. In addition, you must participate in a music ensemble of your choice and give a senior recital to graduate.
This program also requires you to take classes within the Miami Plan for Liberal Education. Through the plan’s foundation courses, you’ll hone skills such as thinking critically, understanding contexts, reflecting and acting, and engaging with other learners. These courses are in the broad discipline areas of English composition, fine arts, humanities, social science, world cultures, natural science, formal reasoning, and in the social foundations of education. The principles and content of the foundation are the basis for the professional education sequence and the content specialization.
What can I do with this major?
Many graduates teach music in elementary and secondary schools, colleges, or work independently as studio teachers.
Who can I contact for more information?
For general information about Miami University, please contact:

Foundation
This requirement is met by taking 36 semester hours of Foundation courses. These courses, typically taken within the first two years, include the following areas:
English Composition
Fine arts, Humanities, Social Science
Cultures
Natural Science
Mathematics, Formal Reasoning, Technology
II. Focus
The focus requirement is met by a minimum of nine hours in a Thematic Sequence outside your department of major and a minimum of three hours in a Senior Capstone Experience.
Taken in your final year of study, the capstone serves to meld your broad, liberal learning with the specialized knowledge of your major. It could take the form of a workshop, research seminar, individual or group project, or creative work in a studio, laboratory, or field study.

If you like the sound of being a performing musician or teacher, a music major may be right for you. You’ll be most successful as a music major if you have these qualities in addition to performing talent: 1) strong motivation to practice, study, and learn more about music on your own; 2) good sight-reading ability and musical ear; 3) an interest in learning more about various types of music; 4) a high level of intellectual curiosity in subjects other than music.
What are the features of Miami’s program?
Focus on undergraduates: Miami University is nationally recognized as one of the top undergraduate universities in the country, with a commitment to you shared by the music department. Faculty are dedicated to developing your talent and ability. And as a music student, you’ll benefit from a 7:1 student: faculty ratio. Courses for music majors are taught exclusively by faculty members, not graduate assistants.
National recognition: Our students have won national awards in competition with students from music conservatories. Among our faculty are award-winning composers, renowned performers and teachers, and scholars of international reputation.
International performing: Miami is the only university in the U.S. where students and faculty perform annually with a major European music festival.
Individual attention: We offer private lessons on all the major orchestral and band instruments, piano, harp, and voice. Required for music majors and music minors, these lessons are open, based on audition, to non-music majors as faculty time permits. Auditions for these opportunities are held at the beginning of each school year. For more information about auditions, contact the music department office.
Top-notch facilities: The Center for Performing Arts is the department’s primary facility, shared with the Department of Theatre. The building houses the 400-seat Gates-Abegglen Theatre, the 150-seat Souers Recital Hall, rehearsal rooms, classrooms, faculty offices and studios, and student practice rooms. The CPA also contains the Amos Music Library and Listening Center, with more than 40,000 volumes and 18,500 recordings, the Electronic Music Studio, and a new class keyboard laboratory with Macintosh computer/keyboard MIDI workstations for instruction and practice in keyboard skills and music theory/composition.
Study abroad: Miami’s music program offers outstanding opportunities for international study. The Department of Music has an agreement with the Luxembourg Conservatory of Music for a student and faculty exchange program which sends Miami students to study music in Luxembourg for a semester or a year.
Are there special admission requirements?
If you want to major or minor in music at Miami, you will need to audition on your instrument or voice. High school seniors can choose to audition at various times between November and March.
In order to prepare you for your audition, study and practice on your instrument or voice are very important. While it is not a requirement for admission as a music major, most of our students auditioning for acceptance as music majors have had private lessons. All music majors at Miami, regardless of performance area, are required to reach a basic proficiency in piano, so piano study before college is useful. Foreign language study is also helpful, particularly for voice majors; French, German, or Italian is required.
What courses would I take?
The Bachelor of Music in Music Performance provides comprehensive professional musical training for the performer. In addition to performing ensembles and private lessons on your major instrument or voice, the program includes courses in music theory, music history, ear training and sight singing, and keyboard skills. Courses in other subjects are taken as part of the Miami Plan for Liberal Education.
What can I do with this major?

You can work as a performer after graduating with a music degree; many of Miami’s graduates are doing just that throughout the country. Many graduates are teaching music or working independently as studio teachers. Performance graduates often attend graduate school before moving on to performance careers. In recent years, Miami’s music graduates have been accepted to graduate study at many of the nation’s leading conservatories and music schools.

If you like the sound of being a performing musician or teacher, a music major may be right for you. You’ll be most successful as a music major if you have these qualities in addition to performing talent: 1) strong motivation to practice, study, and learn more about music on your own; 2) good sight-reading ability and musical ear; 3) an interest in learning more about various types of music; 4) a high level of intellectual curiosity in subjects other than music.

What are the features of Miami’s program?

Focus on undergraduates: Miami University is nationally recognized as one of the top undergraduate universities in the country, with a commitment to you shared by the music department. Faculty are dedicated to developing your talent and ability. And as a music student, you’ll benefit from a 7:1 student: faculty ratio. Courses for music majors are taught exclusively by faculty members, not graduate assistants.
National recognition: Our students have won national awards in competition with students from music conservatories. Among our faculty are award-winning composers, renowned performers and teachers, and scholars of international reputation.
International performing: Miami is the only university in the U.S. where students and faculty perform annually with a major European music festival.
Individual attention: We offer private lessons on all the major orchestral and band instruments, piano, harp, and voice. Required for music majors and music minors, these lessons are open, based on audition, to non-music majors as faculty time permits. Auditions for these opportunities are held at the beginning of each school year. For more information about auditions, contact the music department office.
Top-notch facilities: The Center for Performing Arts is the department’s primary facility, shared with the Department of Theatre. The building houses the 400-seat Gates-Abegglen Theatre, the 150-seat Souers Recital Hall, rehearsal rooms, classrooms, faculty offices and studios, and student practice rooms. The CPA also contains the Amos Music Library and Listening Center, with more than 40,000 volumes and 18,500 recordings, the Electronic Music Studio, and a new class keyboard laboratory with Macintosh computer/keyboard MIDI workstations for instruction and practice in keyboard skills and music theory/composition.
Study abroad: Miami’s music program offers outstanding opportunities for international study. The Department of Music has an agreement with the Luxembourg Conservatory of Music for a student and faculty exchange program which sends Miami students to study music in Luxembourg for a semester or a year. Recent tours and summer study programs have taken Miami music students to France, German, Austria, Italy, Russia, Estonia, Finland, Ghana, and India.
Are there special admission requirements?
If you want to major or minor in music at Miami, you will need to audition on your instrument or voice. High school seniors can choose to audition at various times between November and March.
In order to prepare you for your audition, study and practice on your instrument or voice are very important. While it is not a requirement for admission as a music major, most of our students auditioning for acceptance as music majors have had private lessons. All music majors at Miami, regardless of performance area, are required to reach a basic proficiency in piano, so piano study before college is useful. Foreign language study is also helpful, particularly for voice majors; French, German, or Italian is required.
What courses would I take?
The Bachelor of Arts in Music emphasizes study in music as one of the liberal arts. The program is also designed to allow flexibility in combination with another major for those wishing to double major. This major is also appropriate for students who wish to pursue graduate work in musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, or composition.
In addition to performing ensembles and private lessons on your major instrument or voice, the program includes courses in music theory, music history, ear training and sight singing, and keyboard skills. Courses in other subjects are taken as part of the Miami Plan for Liberal Education.
What can I do with this major?
With a music degree you can work as a performer after graduating; many of Miami’s graduates are doing just that throughout the country. Many graduates are teaching music or working independently as studio teachers. In recent years, Miami’s music graduates have been accepted to graduate study at many of the nation’s leading conservatories and music schools