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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

General Music Minor


Advisor: Pedro Aponte
Emailapontepr@jmu.edu
Phone: (540) 568-5367
Websitehttps://www.jmu.edu/academics/undergraduate/minors/music.shtml

Minor Requirements

General Music Minor1

Open to all JMU undergraduate students, the general music minor develops both the performing and non-performing musician’s understanding of music. The minor requires the successful completion of six hours drawn from three areas – fundamentals, literature and history, and electives – for a total of 18 credit hours. Students must earn 50 percent of the required curriculum at JMU.

Required Courses


Fundamentals: 3-6 Credit Hours


Electives – Any music course may count in this category: 6 Credit Hours


Footnote


1 The minor in music does not qualify a student to teach music in Virginia public schools.

Total: 18 Credit Hours