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Year Planning Tool

Columbia College Chicago
Academic Year 2016-2017
Department: Music Total Credits required for Degree: 128
Degree: Bachelor of Music Total Credits required in Major: 84
Major Program: Composition

Example is for planning purposes only

1st Semester Courses Credit Hours 2nd Semester Courses Credit Hours
48-11XX First-Semester Experience 3 52-1152 Writing & Rhetoric II (EN) 3
52-1151 Writing & Rhetoric I (EN) 3 32-2111 Aural Skills II 2
32-1110 Aural Skills I 2 32-2121 Theory II 2
32-1120 Theory I 2 32-1132 Keyboard II 2
32-1131 Keyboard I 2 32-*890 Ensemble 1
LAS Core 3 LAS Core 3
College-Wide Elective 1 LAS Core 3
Total Semester Hours: 16 Total Semester Hours: 16
3rd Semester Courses Credit Hours 4th Semester Courses Credit Hours
32-2122 Theory III 3 32-3121 Theory IV (SP) 3
32-2112 Aural Skills III (FA) 2 32-2113 Aural Skills IV (SP) 2
32-2133 Keyboard Harmony I (FA) 2 32-2134 Keyboard Harmony II (SP) 2
32-2211 Composition I 3 32-2212 Composition II (SP) 3
32-2910 Notation & Recording Lab 1 32-**** Primary Lesson of Choice 2
LAS Core 3 32-*890 Ensemble 1
College-Wide Elective 2 LAS Core 3
Total Semester Hours: 16 Total Semester Hours: 16
5th Semester Courses Credit Hours 6th Semester Courses Credit Hours
32-2611 Music, Time, & Place I (FA) 3 32-2612 Music, Time, & Place II (SP) (WI) 3
32-3211 Composition III (FA) 3 32-3212 Composition IV (SP) 3
32-2251 Orchestration I (FA) 3 32-2252 Orchestration II (SP) 3
32-1772 Secondary Piano Lesson 1 32-*791 Composition Lesson 2
32-*890 Ensemble 1 32-1772 Secondary Piano Lesson 1
LAS Core 3 32-*890 Ensemble 1
College-Wide Elective 2 LAS Core 3
Total Semester Hours: 16 Total Semester Hours: 16
7th Semester Courses Credit Hours 8th Semester Courses Credit Hours
32-3999 Senior Seminar (FA) 1 32-3797 Senior Recital 2
32-3215 Renaissance Counterpoint (FA) 3 32-3216 Baroque Counterpoint (SP) 3
32-2261 Digital Music Composition I 3 Major Elective 3
Major Elective 3 Major Elective 3
LAS Core 3 32-2411 Fundamentals of Conducting (SP) 2
LAS Core 3 College-Wide Elective 3
Total Semester Hours: 16 Total Semester Hours: 16

Major Elective: Choose from a list of courses, available in the catalog, to fulfill major requirements.
Full-time status at Columbia College Chicago is 12-16 credits per term. All degree-seeking undergraduate students are required to
complete Global Awareness (3 credits), U.S. Pluralism (3 credits), Writing Intensive (3 credits), and upper division (2000 level or
higher) LAS core courses (6 credits).