I. Required Courses (9-13 credits)

• MUS 102 - Music Fundamentals or pass placement test
• MUS 103 - Music in Context or pass placement test
• MUS 227 - Music Theory I ; co-requisite MUS 227L  ​ 

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• Note: Students who place out of MUS 102 and MUS 103 need to take two additional credits in MUS to ensure that the minimum number of credits met in the minor is 20; the department recommends that students in this case take their two semesters of ensemble for credit. 

II. Music and Culture (4 credits)

• MUS 231 - History of Opera
• MUS 232 - Music and the Soundscape of Film
• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• 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

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.