- Welcome to Carleton and your Bachelor of Music degree program
- Your Degree Program
- Courses Required for First Year
- Note:
Welcome to Carleton and your Bachelor of Music degree program
Please read this degree guide prior to registering.
Your Degree Program
The Bachelor of Music degree program is a unique opportunity to develop your musical talents within the context of a liberal arts education. Music history, theory, composition, and performance are complemented by your choice of arts, social science, and science elective courses within a required pattern for the degree.
Your program is an Honours degree requiring 20.0 credits and, normally, four years to complete.
Courses Required for First Year
In the first year of your Bachelor of Music program the Music Program Coordinator will provide you with the course choices based on your theory scores.
A sample of your first year may look like this:
Fall term
MUSI 1900 0.5 credit (Performance/Private lessons)
MUSI 1000 0.5 credit
MUSI 1700 0.5 credit
MUSI 1711 0.5 credit
MUSI 1002 0.5* credit
(*this course is offered in either Fall or Winter and sometimes both terms)
Ensemble (student’s choice)
Winter Term
MUSI 1901 0.5 credit (Performance/Private lessons)
MUSI 1001 0.5* credit (*this course is offered in either Fall or Winter and sometimes both terms)
MUSI 1701 0.5 credit
MUSI 1720 0.5 credit
Ensemble (student’s choice)
Elective 0.5 credit
Ensembles: it is strongly recommended that students fulfill this requirement by participating in MUSI 1912 B (fall) and MUSI 1913 B (Winter) in their first year of BMus study.
Note:
A general theory placement will be administered online before registration for first years begins. The Music Program Coordinator will email incoming students to assess which theory courses they should take. Students who are assessed as lacking the requisite theory and ear training background may be required to take MUSI 1107 first.