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
- WGST 110: Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies · not offered in 2023-24
- WGST 112: Introduction to LGBT/Queer Studies · not offered in 2023-24
- 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 · not offered in 2023-24
- 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 · not offered in 2023-24
- 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 218: Improvisation: A Living History
- MUSC 218: Listening to Dance Music · not offered in 2023-24
- MUSC 219: The Musical Avant-Garde · not offered in 2023-24
- MUSC 232: Golden Age of R & B · not offered in 2023-24
- MUSC 241: Music of Latin America · not offered in 2023-24
- MUSC 247: 1950s/60s American Folk Music Revival · not offered in 2023-24
- MUSC 248: Music of South Asia · 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 · not offered in 2023-24
- MUSC 338: Sonic Spectacles in Minnesota and Beyond: Music as Heritage · not offered in 2023-24