The Ethnomusicology minor is designed for students who wish to augment their major program with a group of related courses that provide a systematic introduction to the study of world music and performance. The minor is a sequence of two quarters of the same lower-division performance course (ETHNMUS 91A-91Z), along with six academic courses, of which one is a lower-division course in Ethnomusicology (5 “Music Around the World” or M25 “Global Pop”); one must be selected from a group of foundational courses in Ethnomusicology, one must be ETHNMUS 101 (“Introduction to Ethnomusicology”), and three must be upper-division electives in Ethnomusicology. Three upper-division performance courses are also required (selected from 161A-161Z)
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