Minor Requirements – 36 Total Credits

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.

Musical Foundations and Theory – Required 6 credits*

  • MUSC 110: Theory I: The Principles of Harmony
    OR MUSC 204: Theory II: Musical Structures

200 or 300-level Courses – Required 12 credits

Courses selected from:

  • ARBC 222: Music in the Middle East (not offered 2025-26)
  • CAMS 242 (not offered 2025-26)
  • MUSC 204: Theory II: Musical Structures
  • MUSC 208: Computer Music and Sound (not offered 2025-26)
  • MUSC 211: Music History before 1800 (not offered 2025-26)
  • MUSC 213: J-Pop: Listening to Music in Modern Japan
  • MUSC 215: Music History After 1800
  • MUSC 217: Opera: Stage, Screen, Recording (not offered 2025-26)
  • MUSC 220 (not offered 2025-26)
  • MUSC 221: The Principles of Music Creation
  • MUSC 224 (not offered 2025-26)
  • MUSC 227: Perception and Cognition of Music (not offered 2025-26)
  • MUSC 239: The Philosophy of Music (not offered 2025-26)
  • MUSC 214: Beats, Rhymes & Life: Hip Hop History and Analysis (not offered 2025-26)
  • MUSC 341: Rock Lab and Lab
  • OR any course numbered MUSC 303 – MUSC 339 (not offered 2025-26)

300-level Seminar Course – Required 6 credits

One course from courses numbered MUSC 303 – MUSC 339

Music Elective – Required 12 credits

Any MUSC credits, including

  • Music classes
  • AFST 225: Black Music, Resistance, and Liberation
  • CGSC 130 ONLY Justin London’s section of this course, ‘The Musical Mind‘
  • GERM 150: Culture & Counter Culture: Music, Text, Resistance
  • Ensembles (MUSE, starting 2025-26 academic year, previously MUSC)
  • Chamber music (MUSL, starting 2025-26 academic year, previously MUSC)
  • Applied lessons (MUSL, starting 2025-26 academic year, previously MUSC)
  • Recitals (MUSL 350 – MUSL 399, starting 2025-26 academic year, previously MUSC 299 (not offered 2025-26))

Additional Departmental Notes

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 does not qualify).