The graduate program leading to the Master of Music degree is designed to provide opportunity for a variety of advanced studies in music. The objective of the program is to produce a graduate student skilled in research, able in organizational and writing skills, and imaginative in developing new approaches and concepts: a student who, with a broad knowledge of the history and literature of music, is able to use this knowledge with effective musicality as a performer, conductor, or music educator.

The MM may be earned with either an academic or a performance emphasis. The program will effectively prepare students for continuation into doctoral study. Students may focus their studies in one of five areas: Conducting, Composition, Music Education, Music History and Literature, Performance.

Further information about all aspects of the program is contained in the Graduate Studies Handbook, available upon request from the Music Department office. Prospective students are advised to request this document.

Admission Requirements
Admission to the graduate program in Music is initially granted with conditionally classified graduate status if the applicant meets the following requirements:

• a baccalaureate degree with a music major;
• a minimum 3.0 GPA in the last 60 units;
• satisfactory completion of the GRE Basic Exam;
• two letters of reference (non-Sacramento State students);
• successful audition or composition portfolio review, if applicable.

Fully classified graduate status is granted after successful completion of nine units of graduate work. The student must file for a change in status, using a form available from the Music Department's Graduate Coordinator.

• an application for admission and a supplemental application for graduate admission (Forms A and B in the CSU application booklet); and
• two sets of official transcripts from all colleges and universities attended, other than Sacramento State.

Approximately six weeks after receipt of all items listed above, a decision regarding admission will be mailed to the applicant.

Advancement to Candidacy
Each fully classified graduate student must file an application for Advancement to Candidacy, indicating a proposed program of graduate study. This procedure should begin as soon as the student has:

• completed approximately 15 units of graduate study, including MUSC 201 and two other 200-level courses, with a minimum of 3.0 GPA;
• received approval from supervising faculty to enter courses leading to MUSC 500, Culminating Experience (see Graduate Studies Handbook for details);
• taken the Writing Placement for Graduate Students (WPG) or taken a Graduate Writing Intensive (GWI) course in their discipline within the first two semesters of coursework at California State University, Sacramento or secured approval for a WPG waiver.

Advancement to Candidacy forms are available in the Office of Graduate Studies. Instructions are found in Part II of the Graduate Studies Handbook.

*Undergraduate major in Music or instructor permission. May be taken twice for credit with permission of the instructor.
** Courses are one unit each, to be taken four times for a total of 4 units per course.
+Music history courses may not duplicate the core.