Do undergraduates have to take liberal arts courses? What are the required courses?
Yes. The undergraduate curriculum is about 80% music-related and 20% liberal arts. We have our own in-house Liberal Arts Department. Our liberal arts course offerings are arts and humanities focused (literature, languages, history, philosophy, social sciences, visual arts, etc.). All freshmen must take college writing (unless they have scored a 4 or 5 on the English Composition AP exam) and a liberal arts seminar. All other liberal arts credits are elective for every major except voice. Vocalists must take a year each of French, Italian and German languages.
