MUSC at Loyola University Chicago

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. MUSC 144Music Theory I
  2. MUSC 244Music Theory II
• 1. MUSC 145Musicianship Lab I
  2. MUSC 144Music Theory I
  3. MUSC 252Music History I

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 MUSC coursework.

• MUSC 244Music Theory IIopens 4 courses (3 directly)
• MUSC 248Jazz Composition and Arrangingopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• MUSC 247Composition IIopens 1 course (1 directly)
• MUSC 252Music History Iopens 1 course (1 directly)
• MUSC 344Music Theory IIIopens 1 course (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 MUSC 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 28 MUSC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 77 more MUSC 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 MUSC, 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 MUSC. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at MUSC 345

  1. MUSC 144Music Theory I
  2. MUSC 244Music Theory II
  3. MUSC 344Music Theory III
  4. MUSC 345Music Theory IV

• 3 courses deep, ending at MUSC 255

  1. MUSC 144Music Theory I
  2. MUSC 252Music History I
  3. MUSC 255Music in Catholic Worship

• 3 courses deep, ending at MUSC 280Z

  1. MUSC 144Music Theory I
  2. MUSC 248Jazz Composition and Arranging
  3. MUSC 280ZApplied Music: Composition

• 3 courses deep, ending at MUSC 347

  1. MUSC 246Composition I
  2. MUSC 247Composition II
  3. MUSC 347Composition III

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for MUSC yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under MUSC yet.

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Department events

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