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 14.04 | Music and Healing in Cross-Cultural Perspective

MUS 14.05/COSC 89.29/COSC 189.03 | Music And Artificial Intelligence

MUS 14.06 | Foundations of Sonic Practice: Embodiment, Listening, and Vibration

MUS 18.02/AAAS 39.06 | Hip-Hop In The United States

MUS 25 | Sonic Arts I: Machine Music

MUS 30.02 | Film Scoring

  • Course description
  • Instructor: Kui Dong
  • Time: TBD
  • Location: TBD
  • Prerequisites: MUS 21.01 Creative Music Theory I (MUS 20 prior to academic year 2025-2026) and an interest in creating music and permission of the instructor

MUS 32 | Improvisation

MUS 36 | Songwriting 1: How to Write a Song

MUS 38.01 | Songwriting 3: Making the Album

  • Course description: TBD
  • Instructor: Cesar Alvarez
  • Time: TBD
  • Location: TBD

MUS 41.02 | Songs in the Key of Life (New Course)

  • Course description: TBD
  • Instructor: Allie Martin
  • Time: TBD
  • Location: TBD

MUS 43 | Modern Classical Music (From Beethoven to Now)