Advisor Information

Please refer to The University of Mississippi Department of Music Academic Manual and Student Handbook. The handbook includes undergraduate degree checklists and much more (see table of contents in the handbook). You can print selected pages from the Adobe Acrobat menu, which will probably be handy when you want to print out selected degree checklists , etc.

Information on graduate degrees is also on the departmental web site. See the guidelines and checklists for the M.M. and D.A. tracks.

Students are assigned to advisors as follows:

• B.A., B.M. Performance, and M.M. Performance students are advised by their studio teachers (except in the case of adjunct faculty/Instructors; students of adjunct faculty/Instructors are assigned to other tenured/tenure-track faculty in the same performance area).
• B.M. Music Ed. students are advised by: Dr. Worthy (Instrumental, 2nd-semester sophomores and up); and Dr. Debra Spurgeon (Vocal). Undergraduate instrumental Music Education majors in the first three semesters (i.e. both semesters freshmen year and Fall of sophomore year) are advised by their studio instructors -- except in the case of students of adjunct faculty/Instructors (students of adjunct faculty/Instructors are assigned to other tenured/tenure-track faculty in the same performance area).
• M.M. Music Ed. and Ph.D. Music Ed. students will be advised by Dr. Alan Spurgeon.