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2024-2025 UMA Catalog 
    
2024-2025 UMA Catalog

Contemporary & Popular Music, BM


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Delivery Area: Online

Bachelor’s Degree Requirements:


  • Minimum 121 Credit Hours
  • Writing Intensive Course
  • Minimum Cumulative G.P.A.: 2.00
  • 30 Credit Hours of Residency Courses
  • 9 Credits of Upper-Level Major Residency Courses
  • Minimum G.P.A. in the Major: 2.00

Complete one of the following concentrations (47-49 Credit Hours):


         Composition/Performance Concentration (47 credits)

         Music Technology Concentration (47 credits)

         Music Education Concentration (48-49 credits)

*Note should be added that students need to be aware/check their state specific education certification requirements.

Complete either of the following (3 CR):

Remaining General Education Requirements (34-36) Credit Hours):


This section is waived for those who hold a prior bachelors degree from a regionally accredited institution.

  • COM 1XX (3 CR)
  • CIS 1XX or higher (3 CR)
  • MAT 1XX or higher (3 CR)
  • 3 CR
  • Any Lab Science (4 CR)
  • Complete six credits of any Humanities electives (6 CR)

Complete one of the following courses (3):


Complete two of the following Social Science electives (6):


  • ANT 1xx any 100-level Anthropology course
  • ECO 1xx any 100-level Economics course
  • 3 CR
  • 3 CR
  • JUS 1xx any 100-level Justice Studies course
  • POS 1xx any 100-level Political Science course
  • PSY 1xx any 100-level Psychology course
  • SOC 1xx any 100-level Sociology course
  • SSC 1xx any 100-level Social Science course

General Electives (3-5 CR):


  • Complete 3-5 general elective credits, enough to reach 121 total credits

General Education:


It is the intention of the University of Maine at Augusta that every degree graduate will be prepared to function in our society as an effective and informed citizen.  To this end, the faculty has designed a set of minimum expectations that students are expected to satisfy.  The aspirations are defined by core skills, competencies, and abilities as well as knowledge based learning experiences that are the grounds for the General Education Requirements.  To learn more, visit  www.uma.edu/academics/general-education/

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