SUMMER COURSES

2023

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2023 Summer Sessions begin June 26 & August 7.

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Current matriculated UCLA students can enroll in summer academic courses beginning February 1 on MyUCLA.
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Commit to your craft or field of study, get a head start on college credits, or complete GE or prerequisites to help accelerate your academic progress as a matriculating UCLA student.

The UCLA Herb Alpert School School of Music offers a number of summer courses in music performance, music industry, music history, and world music. Courses are open to high school students as well as musicians and scholars at any skill level. (Some courses have pre-requisites; students may petition for an exception by contacting info@summer.ucla.edu.)

Study alongside scholars, musicians, and music industry professionals to expand upon your current skill set or follow your curiosity and explore something new!

ACADEMIC SUMMER COURSES AT A GLANCE

Courses Offered
30
GE-Approved Courses
11
Summer Sessions
2
Academic Courses Available for Current High School Students
Academic Courses Available for Current High School Students

Summer Sessions is a unique opportunity to advance your academic career. During the summer, many academic courses that make up UCLA’s regular curriculum are offered in two sessions, Session A and Session C.

We hope you decide to join us for an academically, socially, and culturally enriching experience!

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Summer Courses, Below:

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Summer Courses

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Engineering and Production Fundamentals
This course will provide an introduction to basic acoustic principles, practical techniques, and working procedures for equipment used in contemporary music production, including microphones, mixers, recorders, synthesizers, and sequencers. Basic sound processing operations (equalization, compression, distortion, reverberation). Operating principles of most popular systems of music production software and hardware (Ableton Live, Apple Logic, Avid ProTools, etc.). No prior musical training is required to enroll. Letter grading.
MSC IND 107A

Summer Session A
Meets June 26-August 4, 2023
Instructor: Lily Shabibi
In this course you will examine the life and music of The Beatles within the social and historical context of the 1960s. Credit for both courses 68 and 168 not allowed. Formerly numbered Music History 68. P/NP or letter grading. 
MUSCLG 68
Meets June 24-August 2, 2024
Mon and Wed, 10am-12:50pm, Rm 1344 Schoenberg Music Bldg
Instructor: TBD
Exploration of major aspects of society, history, and culture in India through music. Highlights lines of power in particular, notably, those of caste, class, gender, colonialism, and nationalism. Satisfies Writing II Requirement.
ETHNMUS 46W
Summer Session A
Meets June 24-August 2, 2024
Tues and Thurs, 10-12:30pm, Rm 1439 Schoenberg Music Bldg
Instructor: TBD

Summer Session C
Meets August 5-September 13, 2024
Tues and Thurs, 10-12:30pm, Rm 1439 Schoenberg Music Bldg
Instructor: TBD
This course will introduce you to the development of rap music and hip-hop culture, with an emphasis on musical and verbal qualities, philosophical and political ideologies, gender representation, and influences on cinema and popular culture. Same as African American Studies M107. Fulfills the Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice requirement. GE-approved course.
ETHNMUS M119
Summer Session A
Meets June 24-August 2, 2023
Mon and Wed, 1-3:30pm, Rm 1439 Schoenberg Music Bldg
Instructor: TBD
In this course, you will explore the development of world music or world beat, including its meaning and importance to contemporary culture as well as its history and impact. Fulfills the Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice requirement. GE-approved course.  
ETHNMUS M25
Summer Session A
Meets June 24-August 2, 2024
Mon and Wed, 10-12:30, Rm 1439 Schoenberg Music Bldg
Instructor: TBD
In this course you will survey groove-based electrified dance music from its origins in 1960s pop and soul to present, covering disco, house, techno, ambient, rave and jungle. This course will emphasize the interaction of technology, musical structures, psychoactive drugs, and club cultures to induce altered states of musical consciousness; promise (versus the reality of) political and spiritual transformation; electronic dance music as new art music. Formerly numbered Music History 8. P/NP or letter grading. GE-approved course.
MUSCLG 8
Summer Session C
Meets August 5-September 13, 2024
Tues and Thurs, 1-3:30pm, Rm 1440 Schoenberg Music Bldg
Instructor: TBD
In this course, you will analyze the forms, practices, and meanings of rock and roll music, broadly conceived, from its origin to the present. This course will include an emphasis on how this music has reflected and influenced changes in sexual, racial, and class identities and attitudes. Credit for both courses 5 and 185 not allowed. Formerly numbered Music History 5.
MUSCLG 5
Summer Session A
Meets June 24-August 2, 2024
Mon and Wed, 1-3:50pm, Rm 1344 Schoenberg Music Bldg
Instructor: TBD
Learn and employ the craft of songwriting in this course. Students will examine, analyze, and implement song structure, lyric and melody writing, arranging, orchestrating and recording techniques. Students will also learn about the evolution of songwriting in modern society, as well as how songs and society both affect and reflect one another. No prior musical training is necessary to take this class, but you will be required to make music and perform at your level of ability. Formerly MSC IND 112. Letter grading. 
MSC IND 112A
Summer Session A
Meets June 26-August 4, 2023
Instructor: Kuney, A. K.
Workshop in contemporary songwriting practices for intermediate to advanced songwriter. Emphasis on collaboration, flexibility, and working within teams to master specific songwriting challenges. All genres and styles of music accommodated. Letter grading.  
MSC IND 112B
Summer Session C
Meets August 7 - September 15, 2023
Instructor: Amy Kuney
In this course, you will survey English-language popular music in the 20th century, with a focus on lesbians, gay men, and members of other sexual minorities as creators, performers, and audience members. Formerly Music History M137. Same as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies M137. Letter grading. GE-approved course. 
MUSCLG M137
Summer Session C
Meets from August 7 – September 15, 2023
Tues and Thurs, 11am-1:50pm, Rm 1420 Schoenberg Music Bldg
Instructor: TBD
In this course you will study traditional and contemporary musical culture in Latin America; Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean Isles. Course M108A is not requisite to 108B. Same as Chicana/o and Central American Studies M108A Fulfills the Visual and Performance Arts Analysis and Practice requirement. GE-approved course.  
ETHNMUS M108A
Summer Session A
Meets June 24-August 2, 2024
Tues and Thurs, 1-3:30pm, Rm 1439 Schoenberg Music Bldg
Instructor: TBD
This course will provide you with a performance-based introduction to popular music styles, forms, and competencies through immersion in studio performance techniques. Students will play in groups to develop ensemble, create material and produce recordings. P/NP or letter grading. Course Flyer
MSC IND 111A
Summer Session C
Meets August 7 - September 15, 2023
Instructor: Lee John

In this course, we will cover songwriting, arrangement and record production, music publishing, and the recording business in the 20th and 21st centuries. The class experience features in-depth interviews with music industry songwriting professionals who will demonstrate individual creative processes, discuss their paths to songwriting and their place in the world of music. Note: this course is not a workshop or tutorial on how to write songs. If that’s your goal, please check out Music Industry 112A. 
MSC IND 55
Summer Session A
Meets June 26-August 4, 2023
Instructor: D. Leaf
Introduction to intellectual and theoretical frameworks that form Music Industry minor and that scholars of music and music industries have developed to analyze, understand, and perhaps judge what happens out there, including how music business works in financial, legal, global, and artistic terms, how music technologies of recording, reproduction, and consumption operate, and how basic music science from acoustics to brain biology to music perception affects how music is produced and heard. Required of Music Industry minors. Letter grading.
MSC IND 101
Summer Session A
Meets from June 26 – August 4, 2023
Instructor: Thomas Hanslowe

Summer Session C
Meets from August 7 – September 15, 2023
Instructor: Ciera Ott
Explore techniques, methods, and processes of music production and larger issues in the art of making music. You will learn how to foster and capture performance and emotion in music using a variety of methods and tools, including artistic direction in studio and choices made in sound, arrangement, and application of technology. Letter grading.
MSC IND 115A
Summer Session A
Meets June 26-August 4, 2023
Instructor: A. Moseley

In this course you will learn specific skills, incorporating technical description, historical contextualization, subjective reaction, and the certain stylistic conventions necessary in writing about music. Formerly numbered Music History 12W. Letter grading. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Satisfies Writing II requirement.
MUSCLG 12W
Summer Session A
Meets June 24-August 2, 2024
Mon and Wed, 10am-12:50, Rm 1420 Schoenberg Music Bldg
Instructor: TBD

Summer Session C
Meets August 5-September 13, 2024
Mon and Wed, 10am-12:50, Rm 1420 Schoenberg Music Bldg
Instructor: TBD
Survey of music of Western classical tradition, with emphasis on historical context, musical meanings, and creation of tradition itself.
MUSC M14

Summer Session A
Meets June 24 - August 2, 2024
Tuesdays & Thursdays from 12:00PM to 1:50pm
Instructor: TBA

Summer Session C
Meets August 5 - September 13, 2024
Tuesdays & Thursdays from 12:00PM to 1:50pm
Instructor: TBA
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