Core Offerings
The Music Department offers foundational courses in theory, music history, musicology, and ethnomusicology that fulfill University Core Curriculum requirements in two areas: Arts and Cultural Diversity.
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Every semester the Music department offers multiple sections of four courses that satisfy the University Core requirement in the Arts. Each introduces a different area of musical knowledge.
- MUSA1100 Fundamentals of Music Theory听
- MUSA2200 History of Western Art Music
- MUSA2300 Musics of the World
- MUSA2310 Popular Music
In addition, Music faculty regularly often offer Enduring Questions courses that fulfill the Arts requirement, are open only to first-year students, and have a co-requisite that fulfills another Core requirement. These courses appear as 1700-level courses.
Spring 2026 Arts Core Offerings
Cultural Diversity Core
The following courses fulfill the cultural diversity requirement and fulfill requirements or act as electives within the music major and minor.
- MUSA2300 Musics of the World
- MUSA2303 Afro-Brazilian Musical Worlds
- MUSA2304 Musics of India
- MUSA2306 Musics of Africa
- MUSA2307 Musics of Asia
- MUSA2309 Music and Culture of the Middle East