Undergraduate

Courses

The full list of music courses we offer can be found on the Registrar's website. Please note that courses and times are subject to change.

The Timetable of Class Meetings is posted here.

In addition to the courses listed below, the following courses are offered every fall, winter, and spring term: MUS 53–58 (Individual Instruction Program), MUS 50.1–50.3 (Performance Laboratories), and MUS 59.1–59.6 (Hopkins Center Ensemble Performance and Leadership).

MUS 1 Beginning Music Theory

MUS 3.02 American Music Covers Theft And Musical Borrowing

MUS 9.02 | Creativity Through Percussion (New Course)

MUS 17.06/COCO 23/LING 11.13 | The Language Music Connection

MUS 21.01 | Creative Music Theory I

  • Course description
  • Instructor: Rowland Moseley
  • Time: 11
  • Location: Hopkins Center, Faulkner
  • May not be taken by students who received credit for MUS 20 prior to academic year 2025–2026.

MUS 23 | Timbre And Form

MUS 36 | Songwriting I

MUS 39 | A Critical Inquiry of Sound: Experimental Ethnographic Field Methods (New Course)

MUS 45.04/AAAS 39.09 | Music and Social Justice

MUS 45.13 | Global Sounds

  • Course description: Global Sounds explores world music, focusing each term on selected regions, countries, and cultures, and on how music has moved between East and West, past and present, and "roots" and popular styles. Course work includes critical listening/viewing, reading, and short weekly writing assignments as well as a final creative project or research paper. Where possible, guest artists are invited to offer live musical demonstrations. No prior musical experience is required. Not open to students who have received credit for MUS 4.
  • Instructor: Theodore Levin
  • Time: 10A
  • Location: Hopkins Center, Hartman

MUS 46/COLT 40.07/FILM 50.04 | Video Games And The Meaning Of Life

 

MUS 99 | Proseminar

MUS 102 | Advanced Critical Listening Skills

MUS 700 | Ethics Training Sessions

  • Instructor: Ash Fure
  • Time: ARR
  • Location: Hallgarten