After MUS 153
Gateway: MUS 153
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Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
Generated from North Carolina State University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
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.
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 16 MUS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 51 more MUS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
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.
Musicianship Core2 required · verify with the official sheet
Applied Studyall required
Ensemble Study2 required · verify with the official sheet
Four Semesters of approved ensemble from:
Additional Studyall required
Math and Scienceall required
Electrical & Computer Engineering Coreall required
Music Technology Core2 required · verify with the official sheet
Electronics and Circuits Concentrationchoose 1
GEP Courses1 required
GEP Humanities; GEP Social Sciences; GEP Elective; GEP Health and Exercise Studies; GEP Foundations of American Democracy; GEP Global Knowledge; Free Elective
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in MUS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
4 courses deep, ending at MUS 203
3 courses deep, ending at MUS 207
3 courses deep, ending at MUS 253
3 courses deep, ending at MUS 393
1 course from1 required
1 course from1 required
All MUS courses in the NC State catalog
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