Music Humanities Major

The Music Humanities major is intended for students who wish to pursue a broad liberal arts program that includes Music as a central element.

This program emphasizes music history and literature, and allows the individual student to select an area of interest for the major within the broad field of the humanities.


For students entering Fall 2006 and After:

Lower-Division Requirements:

Music 1A-B-C Fundamentals of Music
Music 95A-W,
130, 131, 134		 Ensemble Performance, Chamber Music, Jazz Improvisation, or Symphonic Orchestra. Three quarters required; two must be taken from 95C-Concert Choir; 95D-Symphonic Chorus; or 95K-Chamber Singers.


Upper-Division Requirements:

Music 120A-B-C History of Music in Western Culture I, II, III
choose three courses from

Music 107: Critical Studies Seminar
Music 110: Doing Euthomusicology
Music 111: Topics/World Music Traditions
Music 112: Topics in European Music Before 1750
Music 113: Topics in Classic, Romantic, and Modern Music
Music 114: Music of the Twentieth Century
Music 115: Women in Music
Music 116: Seminar in Popular Music
Music 126: Blues: an Oral Tradition
Music 127A: Jazz Roots and Early Development
Music 127B: Jazz Since 1946: Freedom and Form
Music 150: Jazz and the Music Diaspora: Special Topics Seminar
Of which at least one must be 107, 110, 116 or 150.

Music 143 Department Seminar: Required each quarter that students are declared Music Humanities majors.

Additional Requirements:

A coherent set of six upper-division Humanities or Fine Arts courses that focuses on a specific topic. Advance approval for these courses must be secured in writing from the Music Humanities faculty adviser.

Downloadable PDF of the Music Humanities Curriculum

HONORS in Music Humanities

Students wishing to pursue Honors in Music Humanities must obtain a faculty sponsor and complete an application for department honors in the spring quarter of their junior year. Music Humanities majors must also submit a portfolio of works with their application, have a GPA of 3.6 in the major, and overall GPA of 3.0.

Admittance into the honors curriculum does not guarantee that a student will receive honors. Honors will be determined in the spring quarter of the senior year by a faculty honors committee reviewing the student's overall academic achievement and project.

If you intend to apply for honors, please speak with the departmental undergraduate advisor for more specific information.

 

 

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