MUS at Western Colorado University

Intro sequences

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

• 1. MUS 100Fundamentals of Music (GT-AH1).
  2. MUS 129Theory of Music 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 MUS coursework.

• MUS 129Theory of Music I.opens 14 courses (2.5 directly)
• MUS 131Theory of Music II.opens 9 courses (4 directly)
• MUS 128Theory of Music Laboratory I.opens 9 courses (1 directly)
• MUS 130Theory of Music Laboratory II.opens 8 courses (3 directly)
• MUS 250Beginning Conducting: Choral and Instrumentalopens 3 courses (3 directly)
• MUS 212Introduction to Music Technologyopens 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 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 33 MUS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 22 more MUS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

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 340

  1. MUS 100Fundamentals of Music (GT-AH1).
  2. MUS 128Theory of Music Laboratory I.
  3. MUS 130Theory of Music Laboratory II.
  4. MUS 253Theory of Music Laboratory III.
  5. MUS 340Theory of Music Lab IV.

• 5 courses deep, ending at MUS 350

  1. MUS 100Fundamentals of Music (GT-AH1).
  2. MUS 128Theory of Music Laboratory I.
  3. MUS 130Theory of Music Laboratory II.

• 4 courses deep, ending at MUS 313

  1. MUS 100Fundamentals of Music (GT-AH1).
  2. MUS 129Theory of Music I.
  3. MUS 131Theory of Music II.

• 4 courses deep, ending at MUS 412

  1. MUS 100Fundamentals of Music (GT-AH1).
  2. MUS 129Theory of Music I.
  3. MUS 212Introduction to Music Technology

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 Western Colorado campus feed.