Regulations and Procedures
Individual Studio Study and Performance-Related Policies
Individual Studio Study, Vocal and Dramatic Coaching, and Chamber Music
The Jacobs School of Music is committed to providing students with the highest quality performance and composition instruction from world-renowned residential faculty.
All lessons, vocal and dramatic coachings, and chamber music coachings shall be distributed across the semester or summer term in a relatively equal way. In rare situations of strategic importance to the school, exceptions to the policies outlined below can occur for a limited period of time if approved in writing by the dean.
Individual Studio Study - Majors and Concentrations
- Studio instruction shall be delivered in individual lessons, unless other arrangements are made with the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Success.
- All music majors and concentrations will study with faculty members.
- Lessons will be a minimum of 60 minutes per week.
- Each student enrolled in performance or composition study in a private lesson setting in a fall or spring semester will receive a minimum of fourteen face-to-face (in person, not online) lessons per semester given by the faculty member who is the teacher of record.
- Each student enrolled in performance or composition study in a private lesson setting in the summer will receive a minimum of eight face-to-face (in person, not online) lessons given by the faculty member who is the teacher of record.
Individual Studio Study - Secondary Lessons
- A student enrolled in secondary lessons in a fall or spring semester will receive fourteen 60-minute face-to-face (in person, not online) lessons per semester with the instructor assigned to the students at the beginning of the semester.
- A student enrolled in secondary lessons in the summer will receive a minimum of eight 60-minute face-to-face (in person, not online) lessons with the instructor assigned to the student at the beginning of the summer term.
Vocal and Dramatic Coaching
- Students enrolled in vocal and dramatic coaching in a fall or spring semester will meet face-to-face (in person, not online) with the teacher of record for a minimum of seven 60-minute coachings if enrolled for one credit hour or a minimum of fourteen 60-minute coachings if enrolled for two credit hours. Students enrolled in one credit hour of vocal coaching in the summer will receive a minimum of four 60-minute face-to-face (in person, not online) coachings with the teacher of record. Students enrolled in two credit hours of vocal coaching in the summer with receive a minimum of eight 60-minute face-to-face (in person, not online) coachings with the teacher of record.
Chamber Music
- All students participating in chamber music must be enrolled in one of the following courses:
- F450 Chamber Music (1 cr.)/F550 Chamber Music (0-1 cr.)
- F455 Latin American and Caribbean Chamber Music (1 cr.)/F555 Latin American and Caribbean Chamber Music (0-1 cr.)
- O450 Jazz Chamber Ensembles (1 cr.)/O550 Jazz Chamber Ensembles (0-1 cr.)
- Y450 Historical Performance Chamber Ensembles (1 cr.)/Y550 Historical Performance Chamber Ensembles (0-1 cr.)
- Students enrolled in chamber music will receive seven face-to-face (in person, not online) coachings of at least 60 minutes each with the faculty member(s) assigned and will complete an approved public performance.
- Graduate students may enroll in 0 credit hours in the graduate courses designated above as long as at least half of the participating students in any group are enrolled for 1 credit hour.
- A student participating in more than one group must be enrolled once for each group.