The Bachelor of Music in Composition is intended for those who want the maximum training in compositional technique possible at the undergraduate level. Students in this degree spend 2/3 of their time in music courses and receive a solid introduction to composition, theory, arranging, orchestration, counterpoint, historical styles and genres, ethnomusicology and the new tools of the electronic studio. They create a portfolio of scores, performance recordings and software files sufficient to audition for graduate schools in music composition and begin building a career as a composer of acoustic or commercial music.Students have gone on to careers as college professors, school music teachers, free-lance composers/arrangers, publishing house editors, church musicians, private music teachers, home-studio owners, popular music composers and performers, and hobbyists with a variety of ?day jobs? enjoying music in their spare time.