MusicMUSC

96 MUSC courses at UC Santa Cruz, from every term currently in the catalog.

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• MUSC 1CUniversity Concert Choir2 cr · GE PR-E · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 2University Orchestra2 cr · GE PR-E · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 3Large Jazz Ensemble2 cr · GE PR-C · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 5ABeginning Sundanese Gamelan2 cr · GE PR-C · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 5BIntermediate Sundanese Gamelan2 cr · GE PR-C · Spring 2026, Winter 2026
• MUSC 8ABeginning Balinese Gamelan2 cr · GE PR-C · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 8BAdvanced Balinese Gamelan2 cr · GE PR-C · Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 9Wind Ensemble2 cr · GE PR-C · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 10Central Asian Ensemble2 cr · GE PR-C · Spring 2026, Winter 2026
• MUSC 11AIntroduction to Western Classical Music5 cr · GE IM · Winter 2027, Winter 2026
• MUSC 11CPopular Music in the United States5 cr · GE ER · Fall 2026, Summer 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 11EGlobal Popular Music5 cr · GE ER · Summer 2026, Spring 2026
• MUSC 12Mariachi Ensemble2 cr · GE PR-C · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 12BMexican Folklorico Music and Dance2 cr · GE PR-C · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 14Beginning Western Theory and Musicianship5 cr · Winter 2027, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 20AGlobal Music Theory and Musicianship5 cr · Fall 2026, Summer 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 20BTheoretical Foundations of Music5 cr · Winter 2027, Winter 2026
• MUSC 20CBeginning Jazz Theory5 cr · Winter 2027
• MUSC 25First-Year Seminar in Music Studies5 cr · Fall 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 30ATheory, Literature, and Musicianship I5 cr · Fall 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 30BTheory, Literature, and Musicianship II5 cr · Winter 2027, Winter 2026
• MUSC 30CTheory, Literature, and Musicianship III5 cr · Spring 2026
• MUSC 31Ear Training2 cr · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 51Vocal Repertoire Class2 cr · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 52Guitar Repertoire and Performance2 cr · Spring 2026, Winter 2026
• MUSC 53ABeginning Ghanaian Ensemble2 cr · GE PR-C · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 55Rhythms of North India2 cr · GE PR-C · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 55AIntermediate Rhythms of North India2 cr · GE PR-C · Winter 2026
• MUSC 56Collaborative Music-Making for Beginners2 cr · GE PR-C · Spring 2026
• MUSC 58Songwriting Craft and Practice5 cr · GE PR-C · Summer 2026
• MUSC 60Fundamental Keyboard Skills2 cr · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 71Laptop Music5 cr · GE PR-C · Summer 2026, Winter 2026
• MUSC 72Fundamentals of Music Technology2 cr · Fall 2025
• MUSC 74Beginning Spontaneous Composition and Improvisation5 cr · Fall 2025
• MUSC 78Popular and Raga-Based Songs of South Asia2 cr · GE PR-C · Spring 2026
• MUSC 80AMusic of the Silk Road5 cr · GE CC · Fall 2025
• MUSC 80CHistory, Literature, and Technology of Electronic Music5 cr · GE PE-T · Fall 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 80KListening to the Environment5 cr · GE PE-E · Winter 2026
• MUSC 80NMusic of the Grateful Dead5 cr · GE IM · Spring 2026
• MUSC 80RMusic in the Digital Age5 cr · GE PE-T · Winter 2027, Summer 2026, Spring 2026
• MUSC 80SWomen in Music5 cr · GE CC · Winter 2027, Summer 2026
• MUSC 80VThe Music of the Beatles5 cr · GE IM · Summer 2026, Winter 2026
• MUSC 80XMusics of South Asia5 cr · GE CC · Winter 2026
• MUSC 81ASurvey of Rap and Hip Hop Music5 cr · GE ER · Winter 2027, Summer 2026, Winter 2026
• MUSC 81DMusic and Empire3 cr · Fall 2026, Spring 2026
• MUSC 81JJazz Mirror of Global Interconnection5 cr · GE CC · Fall 2026
• MUSC 81KScenes and Subcultures5 cr · GE IM · Fall 2025
• MUSC 101AWestern Music History (c. 1150 - 1750)5 cr · Fall 2025
• MUSC 101BWestern Music History (1750-1910)5 cr · Winter 2027, Winter 2026
• MUSC 101CWestern Music History (1910-present)5 cr · Spring 2026
• MUSC 101EMusics of South and Southeast Asia5 cr · Fall 2026
• MUSC 101FMusics of Africa and the Americas5 cr · Spring 2026
• MUSC 101GMusics of Central Asia5 cr · Winter 2026
• MUSC 102University Orchestra2 cr · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 103University Concert Choir2 cr · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 105LThe Music and Life of Prince5 cr · GE IM · Winter 2026
• MUSC 105SThe Politics of Aesthetics and Spirituality5 cr · Fall 2026
• MUSC 105VMexican Music and Conviviality5 cr · Fall 2025
• MUSC 105XMusic and Aural Diversity5 cr · Winter 2027, Spring 2026
• MUSC 120Seminar in Music Composition5 cr · Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026
• MUSC 121BOrchestration5 cr · Fall 2025
• MUSC 123AElectronic Music: Synthesis & Composition I5 cr · Winter 2027, Spring 2026, Winter 2026
• MUSC 123BElectronic Music: Synthesis & Composition II5 cr · Spring 2026
• MUSC 123CElectronic Music: Synthesis & Composition III5 cr · Fall 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 150BMusic Analysis and Composition5 cr · Fall 2026
• MUSC 150DTheory of Southeast Asia5 cr · Fall 2025
• MUSC 150HHarmony & Form in 19th-century Western Art Music5 cr · GE MF · Fall 2025
• MUSC 150IHindustani Music Theory5 cr · GE CC · Spring 2026
• MUSC 150JIntermediate Improvisation and Spontaneous Composition5 cr · Winter 2026
• MUSC 150RField Recording: Mapping and Composing Sound, Identity, and Place5 cr · GE PE-E · Summer 2026
• MUSC 150ZInterdisciplinary Arts Production Lab5 cr · GE PR-C · Winter 2027
• MUSC 158South African Music Ensemble2 cr · Winter 2026
• MUSC 159AOpera Workshop2 cr · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 160University Opera Theater5 cr · Spring 2026
• MUSC 163Early Music Band2 cr · GE PR-C · Spring 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 164Jazz Combos2 cr · GE PR-C · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 166Chamber Singers2 cr · GE PR-C · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 167Workshop in Electronic Music2 cr · Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 167RRecording Workshop2 cr · GE PR-C · Winter 2026
• MUSC 168Experimental Music Ensemble2 cr · Winter 2026
• MUSC 200Introduction to Research Methods5 cr · Fall 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 202Tonal and Posttonal Analysis5 cr · Winter 2026
• MUSC 203HArea Studies in Performance Practice5 cr · Spring 2026
• MUSC 203IMusics of Central Asia5 cr · Winter 2026
• MUSC 204Pedagogy of Music2 cr · Spring 2026
• MUSC 206AGlobal Music Composition5 cr · Winter 2027, Winter 2026
• MUSC 206BComputer-Assisted Composition5 cr · Spring 2026
• MUSC 219Techniques in Composition5 cr · Fall 2025
• MUSC 220Graduate Seminar in Music Composition5 cr · Winter 2027, Spring 2026
• MUSC 252Current Issues Colloquium0 cr · Winter 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Fall 2025
• MUSC 253DIssues in the Ethnography of Music5 cr · Winter 2026
• MUSC 253SThe Politics of Aesthetics and Spirituality5 cr · Fall 2026
• MUSC 254AMusic and Aural Diversity5 cr · Winter 2026
• MUSC 254NCruising the Postcolony5 cr · Fall 2025
• MUSC 254RResearch Design and Grant Writing for Music Scholars5 cr · Spring 2026
• MUSC 295Directed Reading5 cr · Spring 2026, Winter 2026