Entering freshmen and transferring students are required to take a placement examination in rudiments (scales, keys, intervals, triads, general notation), music reading, and performance (principal instrument or voice). Deficiencies may be removed through remedial instruction.
The University of Alabama in Huntsville offers a Bachelor of Arts in Music with several different emphases. Students choose one (or more) of these emphasis:
- Liberal Arts Emphasis
- Performance Emphasis
- Jazz Emphasis
- Music Technology Emphasis
- Music Business Emphasis
- Church Music Emphasis
- Piano Pedagogy Emphasis
- Music Education Emphasis