Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies with a Concentration in Music

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(Requirements for the CRES major with a concentration in music are listed below. Follow this link for the CRES Minor requirements.)

Students must complete all of the following requirements to graduate with a bachelor of arts in this program. Some courses may apply toward multiple requirements.

College Requirements:

Degree Requirements

Students are required to complete all standard college requirements.

Major Requirements:

This major requires a curriculum proposal with a course plan approved by the CRES committee and the advisor in the department of concentration.

Total major units: 17

Two Disciplinary Units from Distribution Group I:

One unit from the following CRES-foundational or CRES-designated courses (CRES-foundational courses cross-listed as “CRES”):

Dance

English

CRES 330 - Studies in Cultural Contacts: Modernity and Memory in the Indian Ocean
CRES 331 - Studies in American Literature: Literature of Reconstruction: “Postbellum - Pre-Harlem”
CRES 333 - American Studies Seminar: Jews across the Americas
CRES 336 - Studies in African American Literature: Douglass/Delany
ENG 201 - Introduction to Narrative -only when offered as “South Asian Women Writers” or “Border Writing: Displacement, Memory, & Narration”
ENG 205 - Introduction to Fiction -only when offered as “Decolonization and the Novel in Africa”
ENG 213 - American Poetry -only when offered as “Ethnopoetics”
ENG 242 - Introduction to Drama -only when offered as “Black British Playwrights”
ENG 333 - Studies in Fiction -only when offered as “Postcolonial Hauntings”
ENG 356 - Studies in African American Literature -only when offered as “Black Arts Movement”
ENG 366 - Studies in Poetry -only when offered as “Remixing the Canon”

Literature

One additional unit in the same subject as above

Two Disciplinary Units from Distribution Group II:

One unit from the following CRES-foundational or CRES-designated courses (CRES-foundational courses cross-listed as “CRES”):

Anthropology

History

Religion

Sociology

One additional unit in the same subject as above

One additional CRES-foundational unit from:

CRES 150 - The Cultural Study of Music

Nine Units of Music, Including:

Two Units of Music Theory:

Two Units of Music History:

One Unit of Ensemble From:

One Unit of Individual Instruction:

MUS 101 - Private Instruction

Two units of CRES-foundational or CRES-designated music units at the 200 level or higher (excluding 470):

One additional unit of music at the 200 level or higher (excluding 470)

One Unit of Junior Year Requirements:

CRES 300 - Junior Seminar
Music junior seminar
Junior qualifying examination in music

Two units of Thesis:

CSCI 470 - Thesis

Recommended but Not Required:

Recommended, but not required: CRES explicitly focuses on the comparative study of race and ethnicity across borders and boundaries. Consequently, the committee strongly recommends as many of the following as possible:

Proficiency in a non-English language.
One or more units of CRES courses with an explicit comparative/transnational element.
Study abroad.