Training
•Bullet: The degree welcomes students from diverse musical backgrounds and lets them shape a program that reflects their interests while studying ancient and recent, classical and popular, Western and global musics through a critical lens
•Bullet: Core courses include Issues and Methods in Musicology, the Musicology Toolkit, Writing about Music, the three-part History of Western Music sequence, Musics, Cultures, and Their Interpretation, and History of Popular Music
•Bullet: The major culminates in a year-long capstone sequence (Capstone Seminars I, II and III) in which each student conceives and executes research on a specialized topic, presented as a written essay or in an alternate format such as a lecture-recital or video/audio presentation
•Bullet: Faculty include Joy H. Calico (chair), Nina Eidsheim (founder and director of the UCLA PEER Lab), Cesar Favila (director of undergraduate studies) and Raymond Knapp (director of the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities)
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Graduating seniors organize a public conference each spring to present their capstone work
•Bullet: The performance requirement (6 units of performance organizations) can be fulfilled in ethnomusicology, global jazz, orchestral, choral, or chamber ensembles, the Early Music Ensemble, or the Rock/Pop Studio Ensemble, and does not require formal musical training
