Music Theory Minor

Overview

The doctoral minor in Music theory offers doctoral students in music an opportunity to engage more deeply with music theory. Credits from a doctoral minor may also count toward the completion of a doctoral degree.   Credits from a doctoral minor may also count toward the completion of a doctoral degree. 

Admissions Requirements

A grade point average of at least 3.0 from doctoral study at USC. Approval of the advisor, doctoral minor area faculty, and the Graduate Director. 

Minor Requirements (12 hours)

Course Title Credits
Courses selected from the following:12
Analysis of Popular Music
Analysis and Performance
Public Music Theory
Survey of Analytical Techniques
Pedagogy of Music Theory
Tonality in the Twentieth Century
Music and Repetition
Style and Technique Since 1900
Topics in Music Theory
Schenkerian Analysis
Contrapuntal Techniques
Contemporary Experimental Music
Music & Modernism
Music Cognition
Transcription and Analysis