The Jazz and Popular Music Minor

(Minimum of six courses, with three selected from core courses, and three electives taken from course list found below.)

Core Course Requirements:

Music 075, Introduction to Jazz (crosslists: AFRC077, FOLK075, WSTD 075)

English 080, Literatures of Jazz OR Music 044, Introduction to Popular Music

One other Music course selected from the list below.

Three electives:

Music 050 – Intro to World Music and Cultures (AFRC050,AFST050,FOLK 022)

Music 070 – Theory and Musicianship 1

Music 140 – Introduction to Musical Life in America

Music 145 – Jazz Improvisation (Music 070 prerequisite)

Music 146 – Studies in African American Music (Crosslists: AFRC147, FOLK 106)

Music 150 – Thinking Globally about Music

Music 158 – Music of Latin America, Carribbean and Hispanics in the U.S. ( FOLK158, LALS158)

Music 172 – Music and Technology

Music 253 – Music and Performance of Africa (AFRC253, AFST253, FOLK253, WSTD253)

Music 258 – Caribbean Music and Diaspora (AFRC258, FOLK259, LALS 258)

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 a Core elective or one of the three additional elective courses:

Music 007 - Popular Music, World Music Ensemble, or Jazz Combo (.25 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.)