UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology

 
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Box 951657
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1657
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Undergraduate Program/World Music

 
 

Scholarly/Research Emphasis

(Effective Fall 2007)

 
       
 
Faculty Emphasis Advisors
   
 

Tara Browner, Associate Professor
A. J. Racy, Professor
Helen Rees, Associate Professor
Roger Savage, Associate Professor
Timothy D. Taylor, Professor

GE Requirements  
Schedule of Classes
Deadlines
  Statement of Completion  
 
Plan of Study
   
  Freshman Sample Plan of Study (pdf)
Transfer Sample Plan of Study (pdf)
   
       
 
GPA requirement
   
 

Students who select this emphasis must have a 3.5 grade-point average in departmental lower division core courses and a cumulative 3.25 GPA at the time of application.

 

   
Capstone (thesis requirement)

Students must write a 25-30 page thesis (capstone) and enroll in Ethnomusicology 199 for at least one term while writing their thesis. (See the "Statement of Completion" link above).

 

 
Degree Requirements
   
 

CORE COURSES
Lower Division Core Course Units (57)

Units

 
 

World Music Theory (10A/B/C)

15

 
 

World Music Systems and Structures (11A/B/C)

15

 
 

Musical Cultures of the World (20A/B/C)

15

 
 

World Music Performance Ensembles (91A-91Z) or
Private Instruction (92) (6 2-unit courses)

12

 
 

Upper Division Core Course Units (20)

   
 

Sociology of Music (175) OR Anthropology of Music (181)

4

 
 

Study of Ethnomusicology (183)

4

 
 

World Music Performance Ensembles 161A-161Z or
Private Instruction (162)

12

 
 

TOTAL CORE COURSE UNITS

77

 
       
 

SCHOLARLY/RESEARCH EMPHASIS COURSES

   
 

Four 4-unit courses selected from one of the following
groupings:
I. Americas
II. Africa and Asia
III. Popular Music and Jazz
IV. Aesthetics, Politics and Psychology of Music

16

 
 

Four courses with other upper division ethnomusicology
courses listed in the Scholarly/Research Emphasis, with
courses from other emphases, or with Special Topics, or
Individual Studies courses (188, 197E or 197S)

Minimum of 16

 
 

Directed Research or Senior Project in Ethnomusicology (199)

2-4

 

 
 

TOTAL EMPHASIS UNITS

 

Minimum of 32

 
 

TOTAL UNITS FOR MAJOR

 

Minimum of 109

 
 

Minimum School of the Arts and Architecture Requirements
(Writing I and II, Foreign Language, Quantitative Reasoning,
GE, and 12 units of upper division non-major courses)

 

77-79 units

 
 

Minimum Number of units required for Bachelor of Arts
(World Music Concentration)

 

186

 
       
 
Scholarly/Research Emphasis Courses
   
 

I. Americas
Traditional North American Indian Music (106A)
Contemporary North American Indian Music (106B)
South American Indian Music (107)
Music of Latin America: Mexico, Central America, Caribbean (M108A)
Music of Latin America: Latin South America(108B)
The African American Musical Heritage (CM110A/B)
African American Music in California (CM112)
Music of Brazil (113)
Chicano/Latino Music in the U.S. (M116)

II. Africa and Asia
Music of Africa (C136A/B)
Folk Music of South Asia (146)
Survey of Classical Music in India (147)
Music in China (C156A/B)
Music on China's Periphery (C159)

III. Popular Music and Jazz
American Popular Music (117)
Development of Rock (118)
Cultural History of Rap (M119)
Ellingtonia (M111)
Development of Jazz (120A/B)
Cross Cultural Perspectives in Jazz (121)
Music of Bebop (123)
Women in Jazz (M109)
Development of Latin Jazz (M131)

IV. Aesthetics, Politics and Psychology of Music
Musical Aesthetics in Los Angeles (M115)
European Musics: Politics, Identities, Nationalisms (133)
Music and Politics in East Asia (C150)
Acoustics (170)
Cognitive Psychology of Music (172A)
Aesthetics of Music (174)
Psychology of Film Music (C176)
Aesthetic and Philosophical Foundations in Systematic Musicology (C178)
Empirical Foundations in Systematic Musicology (C179)

Special Topics and Individual Studies
Special Topics in Ethnomusicology (188)
Individual Studies in Ethnomusicology (197E)
(8 units maximum allowed)
Individual Studies in Systematic Musicology (197S)
(8 units maximum allowed)

Senior Thesis
Directed Research in Ethnomusicology (199)