UCSB Class Numbering System

  • 1-99 are considered Lower Division
  • 100-199 are Upper Division (and require JR level standing or above)
  • 200+ are for Graduate Students (others by petition only)

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24-25 at-a-glance

  

 

Classes with * indicate courses that may be most accessible to those pursuing the Music Minor. However see course catalog for specific course prerequisites.

This is not a full list of courses offered, see Schedule of Classes or GOLD for a full list for the current quarter.

The classes listed here are to be a guide for planning purposes only. The listed classes represent the classes that are not offered on a predictable basis, rotate periodically, or are offered in a consecutive series.

Courses may change.

Lower Division

  • 3A – Music and Society
  • 4A – Musicianship
  • 4D – Musicianship
  • 5A – Theory Fundamentals
  • 8 – Class Composition
  • 10A – History of Music: 1545-1745
  • 11 – Fundamentals of Music
  • 15 – Music Appreciation
  • 16 – Listening to Jazz
  • 17 – World Music
     

Upper Division

  • 106A – Orchestration
  • 109IA – Direct Digital Synthesis
  • 109LA – Real Time Digital Synthesis
  • 114 – Music and Popular Culture*
  • 120A – Orchestral Conducting
  • 160A – Tonal Analysis
  • 175G – Music Culture of the World: India*
  • 183 – Proseminar in Romantic Music
  • 188 – Ethnomusicology Forum

Graduate Courses

  • 203MT – Musicology-Theory Forum
  • 209LA – Real Time Digital Synthesis
  • 209TB – Visual Music Composition
  • 211D – Special Topics in Composition
  • 227 – Seminar in Ethnomusicology
  • 230 – Orchestral Conducting
  • 257 – Composition Forum
  • 260A – Music Cognition
  • 267 – Seminar in Musicology
  • 283 - Proseminar in Romantic Music
  • 293G – Music Cultures of the World: India
  • 296 – Performance Literature
  • 593 – Dissertation Writing Seminar

Lower Division

  • 3B – Writing about Music
  • 4B – Musicianship
  • 4E – Musicianship
  • 5B – Theory Practices and Analysis I
  • 8 – Class Composition
  • 10B – History of Music: 1745-1848
  • 11 – Fundamentals of Music
  • 15 – Music Appreciation
  • 17 – World Music

 

Upper Division

  • 106B – Orchestration

  • 109LB - Real Time Digital Synthesis

  • 114 – Music and Popular Culture*

  • 120A – Orchestral Conducting

  • 160B – 20th Century Analysis

  • 168P – Creating Experimental Performance: Memory, History, Process and Practice

  • 168X – Umm Kulthum: Her Music, Her Life, Her Times*

  • 175P: Eco-Acoustic-Arts: Sounding & Creating with Global Environmental Elements

  • 182 – Proseminar in Classical Music

  • 184 – Proseminar in Contemporary Music

 

Graduate Courses

  • 203MT – Musicology-Theory Forum
  • 209LB – Real Time Digital Synthesis
  • 230 – Orchestral Conducting
  • 262X – Umm Kulthum: Her Music, Her Life, Her Times
  • 273 – Studies in Music Theory
  • 276A – Studies in Ethnomusicology
  • 282 – Proseminar in Classical Music
  • 284 – Proseminar in Contemporary Music
  • 296G – Performance Literature; Brass
  • 296F – Performance Literature; Woodwinds
  • 594A – Special Topics

Lower Division

  • 3C – Structures of Music
  • 4C  Musicianship
  • 4F – Musicianship
  • 5C – Theory Practices and Analysis II
  • 8 – Class Composition
  • 10C – History of Music: 1848-1945
  • 11 – Fundamentals of Music
  • 15 – Music Appreciation
  • 16 – Listening to Jazz
  • 17 – World Music

 

Upper Division

  • 106C – Orchestration
  • 109LC – Real Time Digital Synthesis
  • 114 – Music and Popular Culture*
  • 118 - History and Literature of Great Composers in Western Music*
  • 119A – Music & Politics*
  • 120A – Orchestral Conducting
  • 158D – French Diction
  • 160P – Popular Music
  • 168T - Birds, sonic arts & environmental sensitivities
  • 175L – Music Culture of the Polish Tatra Mountains*
  • 175W - Music, Community, Wellbeing: Advocacy and Activism*
  • 184 - Proseminar in Contemporary Music

 

Graduate Courses

  • 200D – Bibliography & Research Tech
  • 203MT – Musicology-Theory Forum
  • 209LC – Real Time Digital Synthesis 
  • 227 – Seminar in Ethnomusicology
  • 230 – Orchestral Conducting
  • 251A – Seminar in the History of Theory
  • 257 – Composition Forum
  • 269 – Seminar in Musicology: The Twentieth Century
  • 284 - Proseminar in Contemporary Music
  • 296G – Performance Literature; Brass