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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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
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106B – Orchestration
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109LB - Real Time Digital Synthesis
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114 – Music and Popular Culture*
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120A – Orchestral Conducting
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160B – 20th Century Analysis
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168P – Creating Experimental Performance: Memory, History, Process and Practice
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168X – Umm Kulthum: Her Music, Her Life, Her Times*
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175P: Eco-Acoustic-Arts: Sounding & Creating with Global Environmental Elements
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182 – Proseminar in Classical Music
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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