Six courses are required.
- Gateway Course: 6 credits
- MUSC 126 America’s Music
- Foundations: 6 credits
- AFST 113 Introduction to Africana Studies
- AMST 115 Introduction to American Studies
- CAMS 110 Introduction to Cinema and Media Studies
- GWSS 110 Introduction to Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies
- HIST 122 U.S. Women’s History to 1877
- HIST 123 U.S. Women’s History Since 1877
- HIST 125 African American History I: From Africa to the Civil War (not offered in 2023-24)
- HIST 126 African American History II
- MUSC 110 Theory I: The Principles of Harmony
- MUSC 204 Theory II: Musical Structures
- RELG 140 Religion and American Culture
- SOAN 110 Introduction to Anthropology
- SOAN 111 Introduction to Sociology
- Soundtracks of America: 18 credits, at least one course must be at the 200 level or above
- AMST 269 Woodstock Nation (not offered in 2023-24)
- MUSC 111 Music and Storytelling
- MUSC 115 Listening to the Movies
- MUSC 123 The American Film Musical (not offered in 2023-24)
- MUSC 130 The History of Jazz (not offered in 2023-24)
- MUSC 131 The Blues From the Delta to Chicago (not offered in 2023-24)
- MUSC 136 History of Rock (not offered in 2023-24)
- MUSC 137 Rock, Sex, & Rebellion (not offered in 2023-24)
- MUSC 140 Ethnomusicology and the World’s Music
- MUSC 144 Music and Migration (not offered in 2023-24)
- MUSC 208 Computer Music and Sound (not offered in 2023-24)
- MUSC 211 Race, Gender, and Classical Music
- MUSC 213 J-Pop: Listening to Music in Modern Japan (not offered in 2023-24)
- MUSC 215 Western Music and its Social Ecosystems, 1830-Present
- MUSC 217 Opera: Stage, Screen, Recording
- MUSC 232 Golden Age of R & B (not offered in 2023-24)
- MUSC 241 Music of Latin America (not offered in 2023-24)
- MUSC 341 Rock Lab and Lab
- Research Seminar 6 credits
- MUSC 308 Seminar in Music Analysis
- MUSC 313 Video Game Music: History, Interpretation, Practice (not offered in 2023-24)
- MUSC 334 Marvin Gaye (not offered in 2023-24)
- MUSC 337 Music in Social Movements
- MUSC 338 Sonic Spectacles in Minnesota and Beyond: Music as Heritage (not offered in 2023-24)