MUSC at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Intro sequences

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

• 1. MUSC 128Improvisation Without Borders
  2. MUSC 130Tonal Musicianship Skills I.
  3. MUSC 131Tonal Theory 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 131Tonal Theory I.opens 19 courses (6 directly)
• MUSC 130Tonal Musicianship Skills I.opens 19 courses (2 directly)
• MUSC 132Tonal Theory II.opens 8 courses (4 directly)
• MUSC 232Theory III.opens 5 courses (5 directly)
• MUSC 123Diction for Singers I (English/Italian).opens 2 courses (2 directly)
• MUSC 254Studies in Music History I, Antiquity to 1750.opens 2 courses (2 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 72 MUSC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 96 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.

• 5 courses deep, ending at MUSC 230

  1. MUSC 130Tonal Musicianship Skills I.
  2. MUSC 131Tonal Theory I.
  3. MUSC 132Tonal Theory II.
  4. MUSC 232Theory III.
  5. MUSC 230Tonal Musicianship Skills III.

• 5 courses deep, ending at MUSC 309

  1. MUSC 130Tonal Musicianship Skills I.
  2. MUSC 131Tonal Theory I.
  3. MUSC 168Basic Conducting

• 4 courses deep, ending at MUSC 233

  1. MUSC 130Tonal Musicianship Skills I.
  2. MUSC 131Tonal Theory I.
  3. MUSC 254Studies in Music History I, Antiquity to 1750.

• 4 courses deep, ending at MUSC 267

  1. MUSC 130Tonal Musicianship Skills I.
  2. MUSC 131Tonal Theory I.
  3. MUSC 167Instrumentation

Grade medians

Professors

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Clubs & organizations

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