Prior to registration for the fall and spring semesters, a time of general seminary orientation is held. The School of Church Music also provides an orientation period during which entering students take placement auditions in applied music and certain placement tests in music theory and music history. This orientation is required and is administered as a course (ORIEN 3000) for which students register during their first semester. Registration in music courses is not permitted unless music school orientation has been satisfactorily completed.
Students entering during the summer session will attend orientation before the following fall semester and register for ORIEN 3000 during that semester.