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Introduction Music Major Music Minor Jazz and Popular Music Minor Introductory Courses Course Timetable Course Register Undergraduate Advisory Board

The Jazz and Popular Music Minor

 

Core Courses:

Music   035, Introduction to Jazz (crosslists: AFRC077, FOLK075, WSTD 075)
English 080, Literatures of Jazz

The remaining four courses should be selected from the list below:
Music 050 – Intro to World Music and Cultures (crosslists: AFRC050,AFST050,FOLK 022)
Music 070 – Making Sense of Music
Music 135 – Introduction to Musical Life in America
Music 150 – Thinking Globally about Music
Music 235 – Studies in African American Music (Crosslists: AFRC147, FOLK 106)
Music 257 – Caribbean Music and Diaspora (AFRC258, FOLK259, LALS 258)
Music 258 – Music of Latin America, Carribbean and Hispanics in the U.S. (crosslists: FOLK158,      
                     LALS158)
Music 274 – Jazz Improvisation (Music 070 prerequisite)
Music 277 – Music and Technology
Communications 123 – Communication and Popular Culture
English 274 – American Musical Theatre
Sociology 137 – Sociology of Media and Popular Cultutre (Crosslist: FOLK 137)
Theatre Arts 285 – Creating, Managing, and Presenting the Arts (Crosslist: MGMT 253)

 

One course unit of Instrumental performance courses (below) may be used toward minor requirement. The course may be counted once toward ONE of the four  elective courses:
Music 007 - Popular Music, World Music Ensemble,or Jazz Combo (.50 cu per semester) 
Music 010 - Applied Music in Jazz or Popular Music (.,50 cu per semester) 
Music 060 - Beginning Tabla  (1 c.u .)
Music 061 - Indian Musical Performance  (1 c.u.)
Music 062 - Tabla II (1 c.u.)
Music 063 - Indian Musical Performance:  Intermediate (1 c.u.)

 

 

 

 

 

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