PhD in Music Composition


Composition

CourseCredits
MUC 6444 Composition of Electronic Music 3
MUC 6930 Graduate Composition 6
MUC 7931 Advanced Graduate Composition1 12-18
MUC/MUT 6000/70002 15-18

Total Credits

36-42

Cognate

CourseCredits
Interdisciplinary Cognate312-21
or
Performance Cognate4
MVO 6460/7460 Music Performance Or
MUG 6105/7106 Graduate/Advanced Conducting
6
MUS 7905 Projects and Problems in Music Performance 3
MUN 6010 Graduate Ensembles 3-5

Total Credits

12-14
or
Musicology Cognate
MUH 6675 Seminar in Twentieth-Century Music3
MUH/MUL 5000/6000/70006-9
MUS 7905 Projects and Problems in Musicology3

Total Credits

12-15

Supportive Courses in Music

CourseCredits
MUE 6385 Music in Higher Education 3
MUS 6416 Methods of Research and Bibliography3
MUS 6940 Supervised Teaching 3
MUT 6629 Analytical Techniques 3
MUT 6751 Pedagogy of Music Theory3
MUH/MUL 6000/70006
Approved Elective (MUE, MUH, MUL, MUS, MUT,
Performance or Conducting)
0-9

Total Credits

24-30
 
MUS 7980 Research for Doctoral Dissertation15
 

Total Credit Hours:

96

 

1Students will enroll in private composition study (MUC 6930/7931) every semester prior to dissertation.
2Students with an electroacoustic focus, or mixed acoustic/electroacoustic curriculum, take the sequence MUC 6445, MUC 6446, followed by MUC 7447 and/or MUC 7938
3Interdisciplinary Cognate consists of either 12-21 credits outside of music, with a maximum of 6 credits of upper-division (3000/4000 level) undergraduate coursework, or a combination of courses from music and external departments totaling 12-21 GRADUATE credits.
4Student must audition and be accepted into performance or conducting studio at graduate performance level.