Requirements for the Minor (21-25 credits)

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I. Required Courses (9-13 credits)

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• MUS 102   - Music Fundamentals
• MUS 103   - Introduction to Western Art Music
• MUS 227   - Music Theory I
• MUS 227L  - Music Theory I Lab

II. Music and Culture (4 credits)

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• MUS 231   - History of Opera
• MUS 232   - Music and the Soundscape of Film (co-requisite, MUS 232R )
• MUS 233   - Music of the Whole Earth
• MUS 234   - History of Jazz
• MUS 236   - Women and Music
• MUS 238  - African American Music History
• MUS 240  - Music in the American Century

III. Western Music History (4 credits)

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• MUS 301   - Music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Eras
• MUS 303   - Music of the Classic and Romantic Eras
• MUS 311   - Music of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
• MUS 341   - Topics in Music History

IV. Composition/Theory (4 credits)

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• MUS 101   - Music: Imagination and Technique
• MUS 223   - Introduction to Conducting
• MUS 246   - Counterpoint
• MUS 260  - Music Composition
• MUS 324   - Techniques of 20th- and 21st-Century Composition
• MUS 334  - Orchestration
• MUS 337   - Electronic Music Composition

V. Membership in at least one ensemble for at least two semesters

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• MUS 105  - Improvisation Ensemble
• MUS 110   - Choral Union
• MUS 215  - Chorale
• MUS 217  - Madrigal Singers
• MUS 220   - Pan-African Choral Performance
• MUS 222   - University Orchestra
• MUS 224   - Wind Ensemble
• MUS 225   - Flute Ensemble
• MUS 226   - Jazz Ensemble
• MUS 229   - Chamber Music

VI. Meeting/Concert Attendance

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Minors are expected to support all department events but are required to attend all Works in Progress recitals, all majors/minors meetings, and designated concerts/department events.