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Music
As listeners, performers, creators, our students investigate the ways that music and sound shape the worlds in which we live. The music department’s courses, ensembles, and lessons are open to majors and non-majors, and guide students to do the following:
- Connect skills, methods, and modes of knowledge across disciplines and apply them to new contexts.
- Develop and refine skills in such areas as musicianship, public speaking, and project management.
- Build communities in our classes and ensembles through collaborative projects.
- Interrogate our positions within the changing conventions of music and sound studies.
Majors
- Nine and one-half to eleven departmental units:
- Music 150, 170, and 270.
- Four additional units chosen from Music 200-299.*
- Two courses of Music Lessons, chosen from Music 010-044 (.25).
- Two courses of Music Ensemble, chosen from Music 050-074 (.25), 276* (1).
- An additional two courses of either Music Lessons (Music 010-044 (.25)) or Music Ensemble (Music 050-074 (.25), 276* (1)).
- Music 300.
- Two supporting courses:
- One chosen from Anthropology 100, Critical Identity Studies 101, Media Studies 110, 270, Theatre and Dance 202, 343-347.
- One chosen from English 190, Journalism 125, 225, 228, Theatre and Dance 106, 113 (.75), 115 (.75), 117 (.75), 142, (.5), 199, 300.
- The department recommends at least 2 units of study of a language that is not the student’s first language.
- To declare this major, each student must have a curricular planning meeting with a music advisor.
*MUSI 276 MULTI Ensemble may be taken twice for credit. Students may choose to count it only once as a 200-level course (1b), up to twice as a Music Ensemble (1d or 1e), or once as a 200-level course and once as an Ensemble.
Minors
- Five and one-half to seven departmental units:
- Two units chosen from Music 150 and 170.
- Three units chosen from Music 200-299.*
- Two courses of Music Ensemble 050-074 (.25), 276* (1).
*MUSI 276 MULTI Ensemble may be taken twice for credit. Students may choose to count it only once as a 200-level course (1b), up to twice as a Music Ensemble (1c), or once as a 200-level course and once as an Ensemble.