| It has to do with which total faculty is control of what the curriculum is. If the whole faculty is music and/or the arts, and the other general courses are provided away from the mission of the school, by an adjunct faculty body, the curriculum will minimize non-music courses. NASM requirements have a certain limited non-music core, which is enlarged at a regular university and/or college, but kept to a minimum at conservatory. If a school is within a university, the faculty body as a whole sets curriculum, though each department and/or school sets the guidelines for the major. FOr instance, a department may require 10 upper level history courses for a history major, but the university itself will require English writing courses, math, a lab science, humanities sequence, non-western civilization course, social science sequence, etc. Each university, school, college, etc. has to satisfy the accrediting body underwhich it is validated, and that group may be requiring specific non-music subject study for the whole school. |