Dylan Can Have a Music Business Concentration.
Dylan is interested in music, and wants to work in the music business. But Dylan has decided he doesn’t really want to take any actual business courses.
He doesn’t like the idea of taking six hours of Accounting. He would rather not take Macroeconomics or Microeconomics, and both are required for the major he selected. He signed up for a Bachelor’s degree of Business Administration – a B.B.A. – but he is really only interested in the music part, not the business part.
For those trying to keep up, Dylan dropped out of the School of Music during his college orientation. He then registered with the School of Entertainment and Music Business.
But he has a point: he is not interested in business courses. He was also not interested in music classes.
Conveniently, Belmont University still has the perfect major for him.
I told him to look at the lists of classes, rather than the list of majors – which he did. He saw that one of the majors had a ton of interesting classes, nearly all of which he wanted to take – and within that major, he could have a music business concentration.
It is a major called Creative and Entertainment Industry Studies. Under this umbrella, Dylan can have a Music Business concentration.
And he can take a whole slew of classes he will enjoy. Instead of the more general business classes, he will be focusing on the business aspects of entertainment: TV, film, books and music. And in Dylan’s case, he will get plenty of additional music-focused classes.
Plus, if there were ever any doubt, Dylan will continue singing at college. He is already part of the University Singers choral group (a one-credit class). He also wants to start a band, of course, and everyone else at Belmont wants to start a band, too. So that could actually happen.
I do wonder when he’ll find time to study. But at least, now, he wants to take the courses in the list of requirements for his major.
In other words, Dylan has changed his major again. It’s his fourth major in nine months – but at least he feels good about this one.
For now.