Registration
Courses
For current dates, deadlines, and specific registration instructions for courses, please consult the most current official on-line University of Nebraska-Lincoln Schedule of Classes, which is embedded in the "Search For Classes" function off the main menu in MyRed (https://myred.nebraska.edu).
Ensembles
Auditions are required for many of our ensembles, and registration may be controlled by additional permission codes. See the course instructor for permission codes.
For audition information for all ensembles, see the links on the Glenn Korff School of Music web site (music.unl.edu) under the red bar BEYOND THE CLASSROOM under the link "Ensembles." And check out our bulletin boards all around the building!
Applied Music Studio Assignments
All students must successfully pass an audition before any applied studio assignments (i.e., private lessons) are considered. Following a successful audition, students are assigned to applied faculty studios according to availability of space (faculty load). Students are limited to one major applied area (a single 2- 3 credit hour applied lesson per semester).
Registration is initiated by obtaining the applied course number and four-digit call number from the student’s advisor. (The four-digit call number for lessons is suppressed in the registration system, so you must go to your adviser in person to get it.)
In the case where there are multiple studios in a single performance area, such as is the case for piano and voice, students may request a specific assignment, and a request for a specific professor is honored whenever possible. Students not pursuing a music degree or music as a minor field of concentration are, by necessity, given lowest priority for applied study.
NOTE: Students not pursuing music degree requirements are assessed an $80 fee in addition to the credit hour charge for applied lessons.
Students may continue, but are not required, to take applied music once they have their degree-required hours. (Faculty load may be a consideration under these circumstances.)
Applied Lesson Registration for Undeclared Students Intending to be Music Majors
Students who have been accepted as music majors by successful audition, but who cannot enter the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts for other academic reasons, may register for 2-credit major applied music lessons during their first academic semester at UNL. Advising will be provided in the School of Music during the first semester only. In subsequent semesters, these students must register for one credit only, using the MUNM alpha-prefix. If these students become eligible to enter the College at a later date, they will need to audition again. No further advising will be provided by the Glenn Korff School of Music until the student becomes a major or minor in the program.
Students who have been accepted as music minors by successful audition but have not declared a major may register for 1-credit minor applied lessons until they have fulfilled the applied minor requirement.
Students who have not been accepted as music majors by audition, but are otherwise eligible to enter the College, may register for 1-credit minor or non-major applied lessons during their first academic semester at UNL, as audition scores and studio space permit. Advising will be provided in the Glenn Korff School of Music during the first semester only. No further advising will be provided by the Glenn Korff School of Music until the student becomes a major or minor in the program.
Change of Applied Music Studio Assignments
Occasionally a student will wish to change their applied music instructor. Permission for any change in applied studio assignment must come from the area head. It is not admissible to sign up for a different section of applied lessons without the approval of the area.
Transfer Audition Times and Components
Transfer students (whether from inside or outside UNL), who are seeking to become a music major or minor, must pass a live audition. All auditions must include: (1) adjudication by at least 2 members of the faculty, (2) administration of all diagnostic tests where relevant (e.g, theory, aural skills, keyboard skills), and (3) an advising session (including preliminary evaluation of transfer credit) with the chief advisor of the degree program into which the student intends to matriculate (BM, BA, BME, minor).
NOTE: If a student has previously auditioned and was not accepted, a minimum of 5 months must pass between auditions. Students who want to begin studies in a fall semester may audition during the preceding January or February audition days.
Registration for Independent Study
Undergraduate music students who want to enroll in an independent study or special topics course in music using the MUSC 398 or MUSC 498 or MUED 496 course numbers must seek the permission of the Undergraduate Committee to do so. (Under most circumstances MUSC 398 is the course number to use.) Only after approval can the suppressed four-digit call number for registration be issued. Students must request this permission either during the prior semester, or else on or before the close of the “add period” at the beginning of the given semester.
Each student must, in consultation with the instructor, complete the “Independent Study/Special Topics Course Contract” available on the Glenn Korff School of Music website (arts.unl.edu/music) under "Current Students" under "Forms." This form must be filled out, printed out in hard copy, signed and dated, and presented to the Chair of the Undergraduate Committee. (It can be left with the Undergraduate Secretary in WMB rm 113). The Committee then reviews the entire proposal, with particular attention to the question of whether the amount of coursework required is congruent with the number of credit hours requested. Students will be notified by e-mail with the correct call number for registration if the contract is approved. If the contract is not approved, students will be advised by e-mail regarding revisions needed, which should be made with the help of the instructor.
Undergraduate music students who want to enroll in MUSC 499 or MUSC 499H ("Undergraduate Thesis") can obtain the four-digit call number for registration from the Undergraduate Secretary in WMB rm 113.