Guideline for Pre-Majors
Music Major
Please see your counselor or advisor to make sure you get the necessary information in transfering to a four year college.

Career Opportunities
  • Advertising Specialist
  • Arranger
  • Art Director
  • Artist & Repertoire (A&R) Person
  • Band Director
  • Band Leader
  • Composer/Arranger
  • Conductor
  • Copy Writer
  • Copyist
  • Copyright Specialist
  • Critic
  • Disc Jockey
  • Engineer/Mixer
  • Film Music Director/Editor
  • Instrumentalist
  • Lobbyist
  • Manager
  • Music Attorney
  • Music Coach
  • Music Critic
  • Music Director Teacher
  • Music Editor
  • Music Journalist
  • Music Librarian
  • Music Publisher
  • Music Software Programmer
  • Music Teacher
  • Music Therapist
  • Musician
  • Orchestrator
  • Orchestra Librarian
  • Promoter
  • Public Relations Specialist
  • Publications Specialist
  • Publicist
  • Recording Technician
  • Sales/Marketing Representative
  • Singer/Performer
  • Sound Technician
  • Special Events Coordinator
  • Studio Musician
  • Talent Agent
  • Technical Writer
  • Tour Manager
  • Writer
  • Lower Division Major Requirements
    PC Comparable courses CSU Fresno UC Davis
    Musc P101 Musc 1A  
    Musc P102 Musc 1B
    No comparable course Musc 40
    No comparable course Musc 41
    Musc P103 Musc 42
    Musc P104 Musc 43
    Musc P114 Musc 58
    No comparable course Musc 81 Basic Improvisation
    Musc P113 Musc24A
    Musc P113 Musc24B
    Musc P113 Musc24C
    Not articulated Musc 30
    Not articulated Musc 31
    Not articulated Musc 2A
    Not articulated Musc 2B
    Not articulated Musc 2C

    UC Davis NOTE:

    SPECIAL ADVISING NOTE:

    TRANSFER STUDENTS SHOULD TAKE THE PLACEMENT EXAMINATION AND CONSULT WITH DEPARTMENTAL MAJOR ADVISERS BEFORE ENROLLING IN ANY MUSIC COURSE AT UC DAVIS.

     

    CSU Fresno NOTE:           09/01/80

    All students majoring in music are automatically enrolled in the Music as a Liberal Art Option until they have been officially admitted to another music degree option.  All entering students (freshmen and transfer) must take a diagnostic examination in music history/literature and music theory.  Other music degree options have audition or other admission requirements which must be fulfilled before a student is officially recognized as enrolled in that option. Undergraduate music majors select one of the following options: Music as a Liberal Art Option; Instrumental Performance Option; Vocal Performance Option; Composition Option; or Music Education Option: Choral/Vocal Music Education Emphasis, or General Music Education Emphasis, or Instrumental Music Education Emphasis. At the close of their first year at Fresno State, students must pass the Jury I examination in their declared area of concentration (instrument or voice) before being permitted to continue the major. Students in composition must pass an equivalent preliminary jury designed by their composition instructor.  The Jury II examination must be passed for advanced standing. Students majoring in music must enroll in a piano class until the departmental piano proficiency examination has been passed.


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