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Music (Before Fall 2026) requirements
Explore the reviewed Music (Before Fall 2026) major at Boston College, organized by requirement and course.
Required music theory and composition courses
Required for the program.
Any one of the following (upper-level theory/composition)
Choose from these approved options.
Music of the Modern Era
Required for the program.
Two of the following period courses
Choose from these approved options.
One of the following non-Western tradition courses
Choose from these approved options.
- MUSA2309 Music and Culture in the Middle East
- MUSA2300 Musics of the World
- MUSA1320 Introduction to Musics of the World
- MUSA2303 Afro-Brazilian Musical Worlds
- MUSA2304 Musics of India
- MUSA2306 Musics of Africa
- MUSA2307 Musics of Asia
- MUSA2308 Music in the Medieval Islamic World
- MUSA3342 Music and Ecstasy
- MUSA2442 Music and Ecstasy
- MUSA3304 Musics of India
One of the following Western tradition courses
Choose from these approved options.
- MUSA2334 Hip Hop in American Culture
- MUSA2342 Contemporary Celtic Music
- MUSA2360 DJs Past & Present
- MUSA2320 Music and America
- MUSA2330 History of Jazz
- MUSA3224 Dance to the Music: Choreomusicality from the Baroque Court to YouTube
- MUSA3350 The Beatles: From "Yesterday" to "Tomorrow Never Knows"
- MUSA3360 Samplers, Synths, Settings
Senior Seminar
Required for the program.
Source and limitations
Requirements sourced from Boston College University Catalog — Music.
Applies to the Before Fall 2026 (page heading "Major Requirements Before Fall 2026"; elsewhere the page calls these "contracts before fall 2026") cohort.
32 courses across 7 requirement groups.
Requirement eligibility varies by school, cohort, and section. Confirm every degree requirement in EagleApps or with an advisor.