Music Minor

Nurture your lifelong passion for performing music and enhance the study of your instrument or voice.

Perhaps you studied music in high school and want to continue to exercise your talents or want to balance your demanding major with a creative outlet. Our coursework allows you to hone your skills as it focuses on the important fundamentals of music.

The minor in Music prepares students for a lifelong exploration of music. Students develop the ability to listen deeply, to understand music's role in culture and to share music with others in the ensemble setting. As a liberal arts course of study, it is designed to complement any major. A minor in Music requires 22 hours consisting of the following:

Minor Requirements
- MUS 105 - Keyboard Harmony I
- MUS 112 - Understanding Music
- MUS 160 - Fundamentals of Music Theory I
- MUS 165 - Fundamentals of Music Theory II
- MUS 357 - Music in Society
- Music in Practice courses:
- Performance Practicum - Students must successfully complete MUS 109 four times. Transfer students must sucessfully complete MUS 109 during each semester they are enrolled at LR minus one, with a maximum of four times.
- MUS 109 - Co-curricular Performance Practicum
- Applied Music Lower Division - Choose courses to repeat for a total of 4 hours
- MUS 131 - Applied Music-lower Division
- Ensembles: Complete a total of 4 hours for one of the following courses, based on musical focus
- MUS 151 - Music Ensembles
- * MUS 151L - Wind Symphony - for instrumentalists
  * MUS 151A - A Cappella Choir - for vocalists