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Music Composition Minor

Open to Music Majors and Nonmajors

(9 units)

Minor Declaration Form

Courses

Units

MUS COMP 2116 units

Class Composition

MUS COMP 3141 unit

Instrumentation or Orchestration

MUS COMP 300+1 unit

300-level elective

MUS TECH1 unit

Elective

MUS COMP 3900 units

Composition Colloquium (six quarters)

 

Minor Declaration Form

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