Requirements for the Minor in Music
The Minor in Music is an excellent way for students to pursue their passion for music from a broad perspective, but also offers the flexibility for a student to customize a course of study specific to their particular interests.
36 credits required, including:
- Musical Foundations and Theory (6 credits)*
- Two 200- or 300-level courses (12 credits) selected from:
- ARBC 222: Music in the Middle East
- CAMS 242 (not offered 2024-25)
- MUSC 208: Computer Music and Sound (not offered 2024-25)
- MUSC 211: Race, Gender, and Classical Music (not offered 2024-25)
- MUSC 213: J-Pop: Listening to Music in Modern Japan (not offered 2024-25)
- MUSC 215: Western Music and its Social Ecosystems, 1830-Present
- MUSC 217: Opera: Stage, Screen, Recording
- MUSC 220: Composition Studio
- MUSC 221: Electronic Music Composition
- MUSC 224 (not offered 2024-25)
- MUSC 227: Perception and Cognition of Music
- MUSC 239: The Philosophy of Music (not offered 2024-25)
- MUSC 241: Music of Latin America (not offered 2024-25), or any course number MUSC 303 (not offered 2024-25)-339
- MUSC 341: Music in the American South Program: Rock Lab and Lab (not offered 2024-25)
- 300-level Seminar (6 credits)
- One class from courses numbered MUSC 303 (not offered 2024-25)-339
- Music Electives (12 credits)
- Any MUSC credits, including:
- Music classes
- AFST 225: Black Music, Resistance, and Liberation, Black Music, Resistance & Literation
- CGSC 130: What Minds Are What They Do The Musical Mind
- GERM 150: German Music and Culture from Mozart to Rammstein (not offered 2024-25) German Music and Culture from Mozart to Rammstein
- ensembles
- chamber music
- applied lessons
- MUSC 299: Recital
- Any MUSC credits, including:
Students pursuing work in an interdisciplinary area (e.g., ethnomusicology, media studies, music psychology) may petition for elective courses outside of Music to count towards the minor.
*Students who score a 4 or 5 on the AP Music Theory exam are granted 6 general education credits. This does not grant students automatic exemption from MUSC 103: Musicianship I and/or MUSC 110: Theory I: The Principles of Harmony; exemption in these courses is determined by the music department placement exams. Credits earned via the AP exam do not count for elective credit in the major or minor. Students who are exempted from 103 need only 61 credits to complete the major. Students who are exempted from 110 will need to take another 6-credit classroom course in Music (MUSC 100: Ways of Hearing does not qualify).