FAQs for Students

bachelor of music in combination with an outside field FAQs for Students

• A BMO degree is a Bachelor of Music (BM) degree with the full core of music requirements and expectations, as with any other BM degree.
• A BMO includes an Outside Field consisting of a set of 24 credits approved by your outside field advisor and the associate dean of music.

• Contact your outside field advisor to discuss your plans before submitting the online form.
• Enter your Outside Field courses into the BMO Outside Field Approval form, and submit it for approval.
• You must submit this form and have it approved by the end of your second year in the program.
• If you also want to declare a minor, there is a separate form to complete through the Registrar’s webpage; declaring a minor is not the same thing as declaring an outside field

• Consult with your outside field advisor to choose a collection of courses that best suits your goals for your outside field studies.
• Enter your Outside Field courses into the Degree Works planner to be sure you can fit your courses and satisfy any prerequisites. As a part of this planning process, check course offerings in the catalog for normal frequency and semester of course offerings.
• You can build an outside field by beginning with the courses in a minor and adding to it, or by putting together a set of courses not related to a minor at all. Courses counting toward the Outside Field cannot also fulfill ICC, ICSM, capstone, or Academic Writing requirements. However, courses in the outside field may satisfy Diversity (DV), Writing Intensive (WI), and/or Quantitative Literacy (QL) attributes.

• Your outside field can complement your music studies, or it can be an entirely separate field.

• Your outside field advisor can be any faculty member at Ithaca College outside of the Center for Music. You might approach an instructor of a course you took in your potential outside field, or contact the chair of a department in which you are interested