Nov 07, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

College of Music Exploratory Program


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The College of Music Exploratory program is designed for students who are deciding among one or more majors in the College. It allows students to explore major options as well as make progress toward graduation through the completion of Volunteer Core courses and some music courses. Exploratory students are required to meet with their advisor every semester.

Acceptance into this program does not require successful acceptance into the College of Music. If students wish to take MUPF applied lessons they must be admitted to the College. Some other courses (e.g., Music Ensembles) are by audition only and some courses (e.g., Music Theory) require the completion of placement tests.

Before changing their major from Music Exploratory to another program in Music, students must be accepted into the College of Music. Application information is available on the College of Music website.

All full-time, degree-seeking UT Knoxville students who first entered Fall 2024 or later must transition out of the exploratory track into a major no later than the end of their third tracking semester. Transfer students with less than 45 hours of transferrable work who are admitted as exploratory students must transition out of the exploratory track into a major no later than the end of their second full semester at UT. The showcase below assumes Term 1 occurs in a Fall semester.

Campus


Knoxville

uTrack Requirements


Universal Tracking (uTrack) is an academic monitoring system designed to help students stay on track for timely graduation. In order to remain on track, students must complete the minimum requirements for each tracking semester, known as milestones. Milestones include successful completion of specified courses and/or attainment of a minimum GPA. uTrack requirements only affect full-time, degree-seeking students.

Term 1


Credit Hours 15-17


Term 1 Milestone Notes


Completion of at least 12 credit hours

Term 2


Credit Hours 14-19


Term 2 Milestone Notes


  • At least one MUEN course

Term 3


Credit Hours 13-18


Term 3 Milestone Notes


Footnotes


Note: this category is optional for those who eventually pursue BA concentrations in Music Business Administration, Music Journalism and Media, Music Advertising and Public Relations, and Music & Culture. These concentrations do not specifically require applied lessons.

2 Denotes instructor permission required. 

* Meets Volunteer Core requirement

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