MUS at James Madison University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate MUS coursework.

• MUS 144Aural Skills IIopens 8 courses (4 directly)
• MUS 101Keyboard Skills IIopens 5 courses (2 directly)
• MUS 255Jazz Theoryopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• MUS 244Aural Skills IVopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• MUS 317Basic Conductingopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• MUS 202Keyboard Skills IIIopens 2 courses (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate MUS work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 57 MUS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 72 more MUS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on MUS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in MUS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at MUS 404

  1. MUS 100Keyboard Skills
  2. MUS 101Keyboard Skills II
  3. MUS 202Keyboard Skills III
  4. MUS 303Keyboard Skills IV
  5. MUS 404Advanced Keyboard Skills

• 4 courses deep, ending at MUS 318

  1. MUS 143Aural Skills I
  2. MUS 144Aural Skills II
  3. MUS 317Basic Conducting

• 4 courses deep, ending at MUS 442

  1. MUS 143Aural Skills I
  2. MUS 144Aural Skills II
  3. MUS 244Aural Skills IV

• 4 courses deep, ending at MUS 445

  1. MUS 241Diatonic and Chromatic Harmony
  2. MUS 352Music Composition
  3. MUS 435Instrumentation

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for MUS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under MUS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

MUS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the JMU campus feed.