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Career Advice

The following link, provided by the Music Educators National Conference, is an excellent source of information regarding various career options in music:

MENC Careers in Music

Of particular value is MENC's "dictionary" of music careers, a description of jobs in teaching, performance, business, therapy, law, arts management, and many other areas:

MENC Dictionary

As you might expect, the MENC site provides excellent information about preparing for a career in music education. However, it also provides information for students interested in developing a performing career as free-lance musician, a soloist, a conductor, or a member of a large ensemble such as a military band, symphony orchestra, or opera company. The site even offers sound advice about preparing for careers in various parts of the music industry or for the continuation of music study at the graduate level.

In addition, CSUSB music majors and minors should consult closely with their music faculty advisors for information about specific coursework, and special opportunities such as internships or summer workshops and festivals, that will best prepare them for their intended career paths. Students not yet assigned to an advisor should contact the Music Department chair, Dr. Todd Johnson.

Assignment to a Music Advisor

New music majors are assigned to a music faculty advisor by the department chair, Dr. Todd Johnson.  All full-time faculty members participate in advising as assigned, and, when possible, a student is matched with the faculty member most expert in the student's specific degree emphasis.  This allows a student to get the most effective advice and help in preparing for his or her career interests.

          The Music Department places a registration hold on all declared music majors at the beginning of each quarter.  The hold insures that each student consults in detail with his or her assigned advisor before selecting classes.  An advisor's signature on a Music Major Advising Form (PDF, 20 kb) (available in the Department of Music Main Office, PA-111) is required before the departmental secretary, Ms. Lisa DeMarco, can remove the hold.  To set up an advising appointment students should contact advisors at least two weeks before priority registration begins for an upcoming quarter.

Degree Roadmaps

Degree roadmaps for music majors are plans for what courses should be taken in what order, depending on a student’s chosen degree emphasis.  Each music majors should carefully follow his or her roadmap.  Deviation from the order and distribution of courses in the roadmap for a particular emphasis may result in unsolvable conflicts between course meeting times or unreasonably heavy course loads in a given quarter.  Those difficulties may delay a music major’s planned date of graduation.  The Music Department is not responsible for accommodating the graduation plans of a music major who does not follow his or her roadmap.

Music majors who transfer to CSUSB should make a special effort to follow recommended degree road maps.  In scheduling classes and designing it’s curriculum, the Music Department has made a commitment to serving the specialized needs of transfer students.  However, transfers student come to CSUSB with a wide variety of transferable music course work, so it is impossible to perfectly accommodate the needs of every transfer student.  Each transfer music major should make every effort, in close consultation with a music advisor, to closely follow his or her roadmap.