Course variations

Course summary

In this program the students design their own individualized program of study and complete the concentration form in consultation with their advisor, listing all music courses previously taken and those planned for the future.

Program modules

The courses include MUSC103 Materials and Design, MUSC201 Tonal Harmony, MUSC106 History of European Art Music, MUSC107 History of African American Music, MUSC108 History of Rock and R&B, MUSC109 Introduction to Experimental Music, MUSC110 Introduction to South Indian Music, MUSC111 Music and Theater of Indonesia, MUSC112 Introduction to East Asian Music, MUSC113 The Study of Film Music, MUSC120 Orpheus and Eurydice: The Power of Music, MUSC121 Haydn and Mozart as Cultural Constructs, MUSC122 Introduction to Folk Music Studies, MUSC123 Escaping Purgatory: Music and Devotion in Medieval Europe, MUSC124 Music, Math, and Language, MUSC125 Music and Downtown New York, 1950—1970, MUSC126 Poetry and Song, MUSC202 Theory and Analysis, MUSC203 Chromatic Harmony, MUSC204 20th-Century Compositional Techniques, MUSC206 18th Century Counterpoint, MUSC210 Theory of Jazz Improvisation, MUSC211 Language of Jazz Orchestra, MUSC212 South Indian Music solkattu, MUSC220 Composing, Performing, and Listening to Experimental Music, MUSC221 Electroacoustic Music, MUSC222 Computers in Music, MUSC223 Music, Recording, and Sound Design and MUSC224 Computer Arts; History/culture: MUSC241 Medieval and Renaissance Music, MUSC242 Baroque and Classical Music, MUSC243 Music of the 19th Century, MUSC244 Music of the 20th Century, MUSC246 Opera, MUSC250 Film and Folk Music of India, MUSC261 Music and Modernity in China, Japan, and Korea, MUSC265 African Presences I: Music in Africa, MUSC266 African Presences II: Music in the Americas, MUSC269 Sacred and Secular African American Musics, MUSC270 Music of Coltrane, Mingus, and Coleman, MUSC271 Music of Lennie Tristano, Miles Davis, and Max Roach, MUSC272 Women in Creative Music, MUSC273 Music of Duke Ellington, MUSC274 Hymnody in the United States Before the Civil War, MUSC280 Sociology of Music in Social Movements, MUSC285 Wagner and Modernism, MUSC290 How Ethnomusicology Works, MUSC291 The Gendering of Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective, MUSC293 Music of Sun Ra and Karleinz Stockhausen, MUSC294 Recording Culture, MUSC297 Yiddish Cultural Expression: Theater, Literature and MUSC298 Jewish Musical Worlds.

Entry requirement for international students

Students to be considered for admission are expected to have a strong secondary school preparation in English, social science, science, mathematics, and a foreign language. Students who are studying at foreign schools who have taken national examinations for university admission (GCSEs, ‘A’ levels, Abitur, International Baccalaureate, etc.) are expected to have achieved superior results. All students are required to take the SAT Reasoning Test of the College Board or the ACT. Also those students whose native language is not English are required to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), or alternatively, the academic modules of the International English Language Testing System examination (IELTS) with a score close to 100 on the Internet-based TOEFL test, or a 7 on the IELTS. A high score of 650 or better on the critical reading section of the SAT may also demonstrate the necessary English language proficiency.

Qualification

Bachelor degree

Awarding body

Wesleyan University

Department name

Music Department