Information for Incoming Music Graduate Students

Registration Information

In your letter of admission from The Graduate School, you should have received your Student ID#, PIN and instructions on accessing UNCGenie to register for classes. You also need an advising pin. If you have not received your advising pin from The Registrar, contact Angela Jenkins Neblett.  Your advising pin will change every semester.

Typical MM Schedules

Taking nine or ten credit hours is about right, especially if you are taking 602 (which will keep you busy!).

DMA/PhD schedules are a little more involved. Contact your major instructor for registration advising.

Master’s students should sign up for two hours of MUS 551. DMA students usually take three hours of MUS 751.  If you already know who your performance teacher will be, contact Angela Jenkins Neblett for the CRN (performance lessons are not listed on the Course Schedule).  Some of the lessons have variable credit. If the registration page defaults to the wrong number of credit hours, go into a pull-down menu and modify the hours.  

If you are receiving an assistantship or fellowship, you must be enrolled in at least six hours.

You need to see the classes that are required for your program. The Graduate Bulletin has each program of study and a complete list of required courses. Pay attention to the frequency in which each class is offered. Some classes are offered once every two years, and, if one of these (in your program) is offered this fall you should take it. All students should be aware of the “even fall” classes.

You can use The Graduate Bulletin and the online Course Schedule (or paper copies if you have them) to put a schedule together. From the Class Schedule, you need the CRN (five-digit course registration number).  This is what you enter in the online registration page.  You will not find the CRNs for Performance Studies. Contact Angela Jenkins Neblett for these.

If a class is full, you can contact the professor to see if they will let you in. Some professors will, some won’t, but it is certainly worth a try.   

Registration can be confusing. Feel free to contact Angela Jenkins Neblett if you have any questions.  It’s better to register now, however, because certain classes will fill.

Computing Accounts

In the event that you are not aware of the computing accounts that you'll need to set up/activate, see this link to Information Technology Services (http://its.uncg.edu/Accounts/).  From there, you'll need to click on "New Account Requests," then "Activate Your Default Accounts."  Just follow the instructions from there.

If you have any questions about Computing Accounts, you may contact 6-TECH Technical Support by phone at 336-256-TECH(8324) or by sending email to 6-tech@uncg.edu.

IMPORTANT:  Once you have activated your E-Spartan email account, please let Angela Jenkins Neblett know what your email address is so that she can update your record here in The School of Music.  

Advising

The Associate Dean/Director of Graduate Studies will be the advisor for all Master’s students and first-year doctoral students. You will need to have an individual meeting during the fall semester and submit your Plan of Study no later than the Spring semester. You will receive information about advising and Plans of Study during Graduate Orientation Week in August.

Graduate Bulletin  

This link takes you to the music pages of the bulletin. Unfortunately, the online bulletin is from the previous academic year. There may be a few changes in the new edition, so make sure you get a copy of the current bulletin from The Graduate School when you get to campus.
http://www.uncg.edu/grs/bulletin/music.html

Class Schedule

To view the class schedule, click the following link, then enter the semester and subject (Music).

https://banweb.uncg.edu/pls/prod/hwzkcoff.P_UncgSlctCrsOff

Ensemble Audition Schedule

Click the following link to download the Ensemble Audition Schedule. (Adobe Reader needed)

http://www.uncg.edu/mus/Grad/GraduateEnsAudInfo2008.pdf

Orientation Week Schedule

Click on the following link to see the schedule for orientation week.

Diagnostic Tests

You will take diagnostic tests in music history and music theory (in addition to these history and theory tests, DMA students will also take diagnostic tests in area literature and pedagogy) during orientation week (see Orientation Week Schedule). Should you not pass the theory test, you will not be able to enroll in a 600-level theory class until you fulfill this deficiency. Should you not pass the history test, you will not be able to enroll in MUS 606 until you fulfill this deficiency, but you can (and are encouraged to) enroll in MUS 602 - Research Seminar in Music History. (602 is a prerequisite for 606; music ed students need 601.)

See the Graduate Diagnostic Examination Schedule (http://www.uncg.edu/mus/Grad/GradDiagExamSched.pdf ) for scheduled dates/times.

Students failing the history/theory tests can fulfill the deficiency in several ways:

• Study independently and retake the exam at the beginning of the following semester.
• Students with a theory deficiency can take MUS 525 (Overview of Tonal History and Form) and achieve a B or better.
• Students with a history deficiency can take MUS 526 (Overview of Western Music History) and achieve a B or better.
• If a student has one particular area of weakness in the history diagnostic test, they can enroll in the appropriate 500-level history class and achieve a grade of B or better.

Click here to download study sheets for the diagnostic tests:

Theory Study Guide - http://www.uncg.edu/mus/TheoryStudyGuide.pdf      
History Study Guide - http://www.uncg.edu/mus/HistoryStudyGuide.pdf

For additional information about the DMA diagnostic tests in literature and pedagogy, you should contact the division chair for your area.

Tuition

Click on the following link to see fee schedules.
http://fsv.uncg.edu/cashiers/cashiers_payment.html (scroll to bottom of page)

Out-of-State Students
This is for those of you who are 1) U.S. residents and who are classified as out-of-state, or 2) an international student with certain types of non-student visas. The State of North Carolina makes it possible for you to apply for what they call “in-state residency for tuition purposes”. You must have lived in North Carolina for 12 months before the semester in which you would like to be classified an in-state resident. The obvious benefit for you is the significantly lower tuition. If you are a Graduate Assistant and have an out-of-state tuition waiver, then becoming classified as an in-state resident allows the School of Music’s waiver allotment to go much further, thus making it possible for us to bring in a larger number of talented students next year.  

There are no guarantees that you will be considered in-state for your first semester, but one thing that you can do to help your application next year would be to move to North Carolina as soon as possible.  

You will be provided much more detail when you arrive, but you will want to start thinking about this now. There will be a mandatory meeting for all out-of-state graduate students – see Orientation Week Schedule. 

For more information, click the following link.
http://provost.uncg.edu/res