All music majors enrolled in applied studio instruction in their area of primary specialization perform a progress and skills exam during finals week of the spring semester. The exam includes specific requirements in repertoire, technical studies, etudes, and sight-reading appropriate to each specialization and for each level of study. Composition students are required to bring a portfolio of completed works, or works in progress, and have at least one work performed for the exam (if resources are unavailable, MIDI is okay).

The coordinator will create the progress and skills exam schedule. A progress and skills exam sheet is filled out with the assistance of the applied studio instructor. The student must e-mail the progress and skills exam sheet the coordinator one week prior to the progress and skills exam. Consult the applied studio instruction syllabus for information pertaining to the weighting of the progress and skills exam grade in the final course grade. Exams missed due to a student’s negligence or poor planning will not be made up. If a student misses an exam due to a documented illness or emergency, they will receive an Incomplete in the course. It is the student’s responsibility to schedule a make-up exam time. Students enrolled in applied studio instruction on secondary instruments may not be required to perform a progress and skills exam and should consult with their applied studio instructor.

Students wishing to apply for a Science & Arts Foundation scholarship for the following academic year must e-mail of the scholarship audition adjudication sheet to the coordinator one week prior to the the progress and skills exam. Additional criteria for continuing music student scholarships are available here.

Progress and Skills Exam Expectations

These reviews are diagnostic in nature and are designed to assist students and faculty in advisement, curriculum guidance, and career choice. The student may, at times, be re-directed in music studies through assessment of career goals. This review should foster a spirit of encouragement in helping the student move forward in attaining an appropriate level of music skills as efficiently as possible. Skills appropriate for graduation will be comprehensive of all skills acquired at each level. While not all emphases require a senior recital/project, all students are encouraged to complete a senior recital/project. Evaluation and advisement comments will be included with the progress and skills exam form in the comment section.

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