Advanced Electives
The advanced electives, seminars, and workshops allow students to explore specific topics, genres, methodologies, and skills that align with their interests and career goals. They emphasize in-depth, project-based learning involving substantial creative projects, research papers, or multimedia productions that challenge students to apply their theoretical knowledge and practical skills in meaningful, real-world contexts.
- Musical Practice Techniques (MUSC 2001)
- The Art of Improvisation (MUSC 2224)
- Improvising for Social Change (MUSC 2225)
- American Musical/Stage&Screen (MUSC 2310)
- Music of the Baroque Era (MUSC 2440)
- Intro to Ethnomusicology (MUSC 2450)
- History of Chamber Music (MUSC 2460)
- Intro to Music & Film (MUSC 2600)
- Audio Decameron (MUSC 2611)
- Music & Dance in US 1932-1962 (MUSC 2680)
- The Music Documentary (MUSC 2700)
- Music and Television (MUSC 2750)
- Experimental Audio Production (MUSC 2780)
- Sound in Social Life (MUSC 2800)
- Music and the Brain (MUSC 2810)
- Music in US Prisons (MUSC 3240)
- Mozart’s Operas (MUSC 3280)
- Music as Labor (MUSC 3280)
- Music, Cinema and the City (MUSC 3280)
- Seminar in Sacred Music (MUSC 3280)
- Requiem: The Music of Eternal (MUSC 3281)
- Sondheim Seminar (MUSC 3282)
- Songs of Politics & Campaigns (MUSC 3284)
- Music in the Age of AI (MUSC 3285)
- Music & Gender: Global Persp (MUSC 3289)
- Opera History (MUSC 3300)
- Music in the Classical Period (MUSC 3320)
- Music in the Romantic Period (MUSC 3340)
- Music & Modernism in 20th C (MUSC 3350)
- Music and Sound for Film (MUSC 3370)
- Guitar Theory and Composition (MUSC 3430)
- American Music Ethnography (MUSC 3580)
- Podcasting (MUSC 3610)
- Stravinsky Ballets (MUSC 3750)