BM Concentrations
SFCM offers optional Concentrations in four areas: Leadership, Teaching, Technology, and Historical Performance. Concentrations are an opportunity to focus on an area of interest and build a larger skillset to take with you upon graduating. Once completed, your Concentration will be indicated on your transcript, so your efforts will be visible to future employers and graduate programs.
Each Concentration requires 12 credits, which may include those applied to your degree as PDV, TAC, and/or general electives. Specific Concentration requirements are shown below (subject to change). Current SFCM students can retroactively apply completed coursework towards a Concentration, where applicable.
To declare a Concentration, students must:
- Be pursuing a BM (Bachelor of Music)
- Have a minimum 3.0 GPA
- Have written permission from their academic advisor AND private instructor
Specific Concentration requirements are shown below (subject to change).
If you are interested in pursuing a Concentration, please complete this form.
Contact Dean Ryan Brown ( eoebja@fspz.rqhude.mcfs@nworbr ) for more information.
1 This only applies to RJAM undergraduates, who have required TAC electives. TAC majors pursuing a Concentration in Business or Teaching cannot substitute the courses required in those areas for TAC courses required for their BM. TAC majors are ineligible for the Technology Concentration.
| Concentration in Leadership | ||
|---|---|---|
| Classes - Required (1 credit) | Credits | Prerequisites |
| PDV 232 Ecosystem of the Arts | 1 | PDV 200 |
| Classes - Choose 6 credits from: | ||
| PDV 204 Musical Startups | 2 | - |
| PDV 207 Entertainment Law and Music Contracts | 1 | - |
| PDV 206 Business for the Media Composer | 2 | - |
| PDV 211 Intro to Festival Management and Production: Artistic Planning | 1 | - |
| PDV 211 Festival Management and Production | 1 | PDV 210 |
| PDV 220 Building Your Digital Presence (MOD 1) | 1 | - |
| PDV 221 Expanding Your Digital Presence (MOD 2) | 1 | PDV 220 |
| PDV 203 Financial Management | 1 | PDV 202 |
| Campus Activity | ||
| Professional Development Grant, Tier 1 or Sky Hi Award1 | - | - |
| Independent Study (IND); 2 credits total | ||
| IND 162 Independent Study | 2 | - |
| Internships - At least two different orgs; 4 credits total | ||
| PDV 161-163 Self-Proposed Undergraduate Internship2 | 1-3 | - |
1 Do not have to be awarded, but must submit and give the required presentation.
2 Chosen from PDEC-approved list of available internships.
| Concentration in Teaching | ||
|---|---|---|
| Classes - Required (3 credits): | Credits | Prerequisites |
| PDV 432 Teaching Artistry I | 2 | - |
| PDV 434 Foundations of Music Teaching (MOD 1) | 1 | - |
| Classes - Choose 6 credits from: | ||
| PDV 424 Conservatory Engage (Spring) | 1 | PDV 208, PDV 434 |
| PDV 208 Building a Private Teaching Studio (MOD 1) | 1 | - |
| PDV 220 Building Your Digital Presence (MOD 1) | 1 | - |
| PDV 221 Expanding Your Digital Presence (MOD 2) | 1 | PDV 220 |
| APP 260 Brass Methods (non-brass majors only) | 2 | - |
| APP 272 String Pedagogy (high string majors only) | 2 | - |
| APP 273 String Pedagogy (low string majors only) | 2 | - |
| APP 302 Guitar Pedagogy (guitar majors only) | 2 | - |
| APP 252 Piano Pedagogy (piano majors only) | 2 | - |
| APP 202 Vocal Physiology (voice majors only) | 2 | - |
| APP 203 Vocal Pedagogy (voice majors only) | 2 | - |
| Teaching Internships/Independent Study - 3 credits total: | ||
| PDV 161-163 PDEC Undergraduate Internship (teaching-related)4 | 1-3 | - |
| PDV 161-163 PDEC Undergraduate Internship (teaching-related)4 | 1-3 | - |
| IND 162 Independent Study | 2 | - |
4Chosen from PDEC-approved list of available internships.
| Concentration in Technology | ||
|---|---|---|
| Classes - Required (3 credits): | Credits | Prerequisites |
| PDV 502 Intro to Music Technology | 1 | - |
| PDV 221 Expanding Your Digital Presence* | 1 | - |
| PDV 510 Intro to Sound Recording | 2 | - |
| Classes - Choose 9 credits from: | ||
| MHL 340 Survey Of Music For Games, Film and More (Fall Only) | 2 | PDV 510 |
| PDV 220 Building Your Digital Presence | 1 | - |
| PDV 221 Expanding Your Digital Presence | 1 | PDV 220 |
| TAC 120 Logic Pro (offered every semester) | 2 | PDV 502 |
| TAC 121 Ableton (offered every semester) | 2 | PDV 502 |
| TAC 210 Scoring For Film I (Spring Only) | 2 | - |
| TAC 220 Introduction To Sound Design (offered every semester) | 2 | PDV 502 |
| TAC 250 Introduction To Sound For Games (Fall Only) | 2 | PDV 502 |
| TAC 320 Composer-Performer I (Fall Only) | 2 | PDV 502 |
| Concentration in Historical Performance | ||
|---|---|---|
| Classes - Required (2 credits): | Credits | Prerequisites |
| ENS 210 Baroque Ensemble-Vocal | 2 | - |
| PRF 334 Baroque Cello | 2 | - |
| PRF 336 Baroque Violin and Viola | 2 | - |
| PRF 348 Historical Plucked Strings | 2 | - |
| PRF 354 Harpsichord for Pianists | 2 | - |
| PRF 358 Fortepiano Class | 2 | - |
| Classes - Required Performance Practice (3 credits): | ||
| MHL 400 Introduction to Performance Practice | 3 | - |
| Classes - Choose 2 credits from: | ||
| ENS 212 Continuo Playing and Baroque Improvisation | 2 | - |
| ENS 305 Basso Continuo playing for Guitarists | 2 | - |
| Classes - Required (4 credits) | ||
| ENS 200 Baroque Ensemble (Participation in 2 Baroque Ensemble Performances) | 4 | - |
| Independent Study (1 credit) | ||
| IND 162 Independent Study | 1 | - |