This certification must be secured prior to the first semester in which credit is desired, and is based on an audition before the appropriate applied study or composition department. Results of the audition are normally posted one or two days following the auditions on the bulletin board outside Bibbins 113 in the Conservatory. Requirements for the audition, dates of auditions, and additional information on applied music or composition study are available, upon request, from the Applied Studies administrative assistant, Bibbins 113. All assignments to teachers in private study are made by the Assistant Dean of the Conservatory. Because of heavy demands for private study on certain instruments or in composition, it is not always possible to place qualified students on teaching schedules.
Priority is given to the more advanced students.
A student assigned to private study must contact the teacher before the close of the first week of the semester or forfeit the spot on the teacher's schedule. Normally, College students will receive two hours of credit in applied study per semester and thirty minutes of instruction weekly or four credits in composition and one hour of instruction weekly. Exceptionally talented students, upon the written recommendation of the private study teacher and with the approval of the Assistant Dean of the Conservatory, may be given four hours of credit and one hour of applied study instruction weekly. No additional tuition will be charged for the one-hour lesson unless the four hours of credit increase the student's registered hours to more than 16 for the semester. Students enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences who wish approval to perform a non-required recital must complete two departmental or studio recital appearances before approval is requested.