Music Minor
The Department of Music provides many opportunities to students who wish to study music within a strong liberal arts curriculum. We foster creative endeavor and critical inquiry through courses, ensembles, and lessons on instruments or voice that explore music from a variety of perspectives.
Requirements
In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must:
- take at least nine hours of their minor "core" requirements at UNC–Chapel Hill
- earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.000 in the minor core requirements. Some programs may require higher standards for minor or specific courses.
For more information, please consult the degree requirements section of the catalog.
The minor in music requires 15 hours as follows:
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Requirements | ||
| One of: | 3 | |
 Foundations in Music F | ||
| Fundamentals of Tonal Music I | ||
| Tonal Theory I H | ||
| Survey of Western Music History | ||
| Great Musical Works | ||
| Introduction to Rock Music | ||
| Introduction to Country Music | ||
| Introduction to Jazz | ||
| Introduction to World Musics | ||
| Introduction to the Music of the Américas | ||
| Introduction to Black Music | ||
| Introduction to Music and Dance | ||
| The Art and Culture of the DJ | ||
| Beat Making Lab | ||
| Rap Lab | ||
| Rock Lab | ||
| Music Production I | ||
| Music of South Asia | ||
| Introduction to Composition | ||
| Introduction to Women and Music (three hours) | ||
| One of: | 3 | |
| Piano Literature | ||
| Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion, and Strings Techniques | ||
| Keyboard, Vocal, and Elementary Music Techniques | ||
| World Musics in Theory and Practice | ||
| Introduction to Music Technology | ||
| Performance in Southeast Asia: Gongs, Punks, and Shadow Plays | ||
| Gender on the Musical Stage | ||
| Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music | ||
| Musical Movements: Migration, Exile, and Diaspora | ||
| Music Production II | ||
| Music in the Community | ||
| Jazz Innovators | ||
| Popular Song in American Culture | ||
| Bach and Handel | ||
| Haydn and Mozart | ||
| Beethoven and His Era | ||
| Musical Modernism | ||
| Music as Culture H | ||
| Opera as Drama H | ||
| The Orchestra and Its Music | ||
| Sounds of War and Revolution | ||
| Music and Politics | ||
| Media and Social Change in Africa | ||
| Bluegrass Music, Culture, and History | ||
| Studies in Jazz | ||
| UNC Summer Jazz Workshop | ||
| Inside the Song: Analysis of Songcraft | ||
| Seminar in Music H | ||
| The remaining nine hours are to be taken from other MUSC courses (which may include lessons or ensembles) subject to prerequisites and other admissions requirements. | 9 | |
| Total Hours | 15 | |
| H | Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply. |
| F | FY-Launch class sections may be available. A FY-Launch section fulfills the same requirements as a standard section of that course, but also fulfills the FY-SEMINAR/FY-LAUNCH First-Year Foundations requirement. Students can search for FY-Launch sections in ConnectCarolina using the FY-LAUNCH attribute. |
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