Minnesota
State Colleges
Music Discipline/Department Meeting Notes
October 10, 2003
Three Main areas for discussion were:
- Communication and Coordination
- Transfer Issues
- Associate of Fine Arts Degree
Meeting Discussion Area One: Communication and Coordination
MNSCU Website
- URL is: http://music.mnscu.edu
- Tentative commitment 1 year supported by RCTC (pass support following year)
- Links:
- Welcome
- Visit Campus
- Degrees Offered
- Class List
- Transfer
- Careers
- Suggestion for:
- web concert schedules
- festivals
- workshops
- special events
- Other suggested Links
- Board of Teaching
- NASM
- Education opportunities
- 2 Year
- 4 Year
- Graduate
- Admissions page, Contact us page
- Not to make local contact addresses too accessible?
- Password protected section
- Phone Directory
- Calendars each school
- Additional content to be mailed to: Kevin.Dobbe@roch.edu
Music Council
- Advantages
- Means of dialogue
- Various issues
- Transfer
- Curriculum
- Program coordination
- Scholarship
- Meeting day- When?
- Need clear objectives
- Joint means communicate to MNSCU opportunity for united voice
- Potential connection
- CTL
- Bylaws
- Structure
- Subcommittee to start:
- Kevin Dobbe
- John Lindberg
- Elizabeth Jaakola
Meeting Discussion Area Two: Transfer Issues
Transfer Issues
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Option Modes:
- Course-by-Course
- Bilateral Articulations
- Multilateral Articulations
- System-Wide Articulations
- AFA Degree
- Consideration of UM/Private
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General Agreement that first three modes are comfortable with all. Further discussion needed for other modes
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General Categories for music courses:
- Theory/Ear-Training
- Proficiency (Private study included)
- Convocations
- History/Literature
- Ensembles
- Technology
- Composition
- Prerequisites
- Non-Majors/Enjoyment
- Methods/ Literature
- Conducting
- World Music
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Some terms defined
Exams Lists
- Not automatic acceptance
- Lists from 4-yr. institutions
- Add “auditions” to list
- Terminology exam?
- Attendees agreed to e-mail lists of courses that require entrance exams and to list the general type.
Meeting Discussion Area Three: Associate of Fine Arts Degree
- Background and History of AFA request
- Criteria
by NASM (should be foundation for institutions wanting to grant degree)
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Required NASM Certification
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Facility
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Faculty
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Curriculum
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Rationale
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Means to schedule Gen. Education courses over 4 years
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Personal goal
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Terminal degree versus Non-Terminal
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Would diploma be better?
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Do students want AFA?
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Is there demand?
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Feasibility of AFA
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Transfer or terminal?
- What differences in requirement
- Minimum 6 content areas?
- Like A.S. Degree?
- 30 hrs. general studies
- 6 content areas
- AFA Music?
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60 cr. Degree
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30 Music
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30 General Education minimum
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Articulation agreement
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AFA
(Associate in Fine Arts)
The participants
at the music discipline/department group meeting held on October 10, 2003,
hereby submit the following
AFA policy language statement to the Office of the Chancellor:
“An Associate in Fine Arts (AFA)
degree may be awarded for successful completion of a program in a designated
discipline in Fine Arts which transfers to a baccalaureate major in a
related Fine Arts discipline. An Associate in Fine Arts degree must have
one or more articulation agreement(s) between the institution awarding
the Associate in Fine Arts degree and a MnSCU state university awarding
a related baccalaureate degree. A 60-64 credits Associate in Fine Arts
program shall include a minimum of 30 semester credits in general education
credits. General education courses shall be selected from at lease six
of the ten goal areas of the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum.”