Training
•Bullet: Study with guitar faculty Petar Jankovic, Jiji Kim (Associate Professors of Music), and Daniel Duarte (Senior Lecturer in Music), with at least one hour-long individual lesson each week and a weekly performance/master class
•Bullet: A different teaching artist-in-residence joins the guitar curriculum each semester
•Bullet: Guitar majors take M438 Survey of Guitar Literature and 6 credit hours of guitar major courses chosen from options such as Guitar Arranging and Transcription, Latin Guitar, Electric Guitar Concepts, Jazz Improvisation, and Historical Guitars
•Bullet: The Bachelor of Music in Performance is a 120-credit-hour degree with 27 credit hours of core music courses in musical skills, music theory and literature, and music history, plus an entrance audition, freshman jury, upper-division examination, junior recital, and senior recital
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Guitar majors perform in guitar ensembles or any of the dozens of other bands, chamber music ensembles, and choirs at Jacobs; chamber music is F450 (three semesters)
•Bullet: Guitar and harp majors complete the keyboard proficiency required by their departments instead of the secondary piano classes
