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Academic Advising & Registration

The College of Fine Arts is a mandatory advising college. 
•    Academic advising is available to enrolled music majors only.
•    Music majors must meet with the academic advisor in the Butler School of Music every semester prior to registration.
•    Most students find it helpful to visit the academic advisor multiple times a year to discuss their academic plans and progress. 
•    A list of important academic deadlines is available on the College of Fine Arts Student Affairs website.
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Integrated Career Advising

•    Fine Arts Career Services offers workshops, programs and individual career advising appointments each semester.
•    All fine arts students are required to attend programming or advising at Fine Arts Career Services three times during their academic career:
o    First semester of sophomore year
o    Second semester of junior year
o    Final semester of senior year

Ensemble Requirements

Eight semesters in an assigned instrumental ensemble are required.
•    Symphony Orchestra
•    Wind Ensemble
•    New Music Ensemble
•    Wind Symphony
•    Symphony Band
•    or equivalent

Juries

A jury is a final semester music performance by a music student for a panel of faculty jurors, usually held at the end of the semester.
•    All brass, woodwind and percussion (BWP) students are required to perform juries as part of their degree requirements and to be advanced to higher standing within their particular course of study.

Jury Requirements and Sequences
•    BWP students are required to perform a jury every second semester after commencing study at the school until their respective requirements are met.

*Jury required for level indicated

•    Faculty may request additional juries of any student or may retain a student at any level
•    All BWP undergraduate juries are 10 minutes in length except the Full Division Faculty Jury (FDFJ), which is 15 minutes. 
•    The registration and completion order of the INST 362 courses/levels and MUS 420R/MUS 460R courses may vary. For example, a BWP performance major may be allowed by their instructor to be registered for MUS 420R and complete the junior recital requirement in the fall semester and then be registered for INST 362a for the spring semester. However, MUS 420R must be completed before MUS 460R.

Full Division Faculty Jury (FDFJ)
•    BWP performance majors’ admission to upper-division standing in performance requires the successful performance of a 15 minute FDFJ, typically after successfully advancing to the fourth semester of study in the program (INST 312d advancing to INST 362a or MUS 420R). 
•    Students performing the FDFJ must submit a completed and fully signed FDFJ form to Stephen Wray by May 8, 2020.
o    Download the FDFJ form for Performance majors. 
o    Open the document, type in your information and print the form.
o    Collect the appropriate signatures.
o    Submit your completed and fully signed paper copy to Stephen Wray in the Student Office, MRH 3.836.

Jury Grading 
•    For juries, no jury grades are collected from faculty jurors, with the exception of the FDFJ.
•    However, all faculty jurors are allowed to provide written input regarding a student’s advancement to higher standing (proposed level for the next semester)

Jury Scheduling
•    Juries are held during the first two days of the official final examination period. No official or unofficial juries are allowed during the no-class days occurring after the last class day of the semester and before the beginning of the final exam period.
o    Most juries for this spring are scheduled to occur Wednesday, May 13 and Thursday, May 14, 2020. 
•    Sign-up sheets for most Spring 2020 juries will be available Wednesday, Apr. 22 through Friday, May 8, 2020 next to the Student Office, MRH 3.836. Be sure to check with your pianist FIRST before signing up. A finalized schedule of these jury sign-up sheets will be posted on the windows of the Student Office, MRH 3.836 one or two days before these juries begin. 
o    Exception: Prof. Tom Burritt schedules percussion juries (except percussion FDFJs)
•    To help you avoid jury schedule conflicts with finals for any of your organized classes, the final exam schedule for all organized classes can be found at http://utdirect.utexas.edu/rgexam/getyys.WBX and will be updated approximately one month before finals week, which is May 13-19 (except for Sunday, May 17), 2020.
•    Your personalized final exam schedule can be found at https://utdirect.utexas.edu/registrar/exam_schedule.WBX and will be updated approximately one to two months before finals week.

Postponing a Jury
•    If you are or were unable to perform your jury during the May 2020 jury schedule, contact your performance instructor and division head immediately. You must also explain your need to postpone via email to the appropriate Director of Undergraduate Studies listed below no later than Monday, May 18, 2020.
•    If you are/were experiencing a health situation or injury, then you must also provide adequate written documentation from a physician or health/wellness center along with your request to postpone, BY THE MAY 18 DEADLINE. The undergraduate director may require additional details from you before making a final decision. If it’s impossible for you to provide documentation by the deadline, inform the undergraduate director; he may require corroboration from your performance instructor to consider extending the deadline for documentation.
•    IMPORTANT: A request to postpone a Spring 2020 jury, including written documentation as mentioned above, must be made by the May 18, 2020 deadline, or an official postponement will not be decided upon. A student without an official postponement of the jury will not be advanced to the next performance level and is required to repeat the performance course at the same level. This also affects a student’s final grade for the performance course where jury grades are a portion of the final grade.
•    For most areas, juries that have been officially postponed will be rescheduled by Stephen Wray to occur between the first and twelfth class days of the next long semester; students are typically notified approximately two to three weeks before the postponed jury date.

Recitals

Undergraduate performance majors must play both a junior and senior recital as part of their degree.

•    Junior Recital: MUS 420R
o    A student has permission to perform their junior recital after successfully passing the FDFJ. The recital shall consist of works or parts of works equal to a program of 30 minutes in length.

•    Senior Recital: MUS 460R
o    A student has permission to perform their senior recital after successfully passing the required juries and given a junior recital. The recital shall consist of works creating a program of 60 minutes in length.

•    Students will receiving recital scheduling instructions from scheduling@mail.musicutexas.edu. 
o    There are two rounds of scheduling per semester. (WHEN?).

Graduating

Apply to graduate during the semester you wish to graduate. You can find detailed graduation procedures and deadlines on the College of Fine Arts Student Affairs website.

Important Links

•    BWP Handbook
•    BSOM Internal Operations Information
•    Degree Guidelines & Four-Year Plans
•    IDA
•    UG Catalog
•    General Info Catalog
•    Tuition
•    Financial Aid for Currently Enrolled Students
•    Merit-Based Music Scholarships
•    Counseling
•    Vick Center
•    Academic Calendar
•    Etc.