MUSI 4497: Senior Composition Capstone Project

2 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: MUSI 4473 and completion of 90 hours of coursework
A senior-level composition course designed to provide a learning experience that integrates the student’s prior academic, theoretical, research, and applied experiences in music. Students fulfill projects that synthesize and disseminate their work through a culminating lecture-performance.

Course Learning Outcomes
This undergraduate research course is designed for students nearing the completion of their required degree work in the Composition concentration in the Bachelor of Music degree in the School of Music. In alignment with KSU’s “It’s About Engagement” initiative, students will design, pursue, and disseminate a Capstone Music Project in consultation with the instructor. The project will build on the knowledge and skills acquired during the student’s undergraduate musical training as the student integrates these with the research/creative activity they pursue for this course. Students will disseminate their work by the end of the term in a format approved by the instructor, Composition students will present a public lecture-performance of their compositions. Specific semester creative activity goals will be agreed upon and outlined below by the instructor and student at the beginning of the Senior Composition Capstone Project semester.