Department of Music

The Music program at Brookdale allows students to secure the first two years of a four-year program.  Completion of this program is the first step toward gaining a position as a teacher, supervisor, or director of choral, instrumental, and/or theater production programs within elementary, middle, or secondary schools, as well as in choral or instrumental organizations.  Numerous full-time teaching positions exist in public and private schools for music education majors.

The A.A. Humanities with the Music Option prepares you to transfer to pursue a bachelor’s degree in music.  Transfer students are generally required to take a music theory, keyboard proficiency, and pitch discrimination test at the four-year institution to which they transfer.

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Associates Degree in Applied Science in Music Technology. This program will prepare the student to either enter the job market in music production for film, gaming and the stage or for transfer to a four-year school for a bachelor's degree in music technology.