MUSC260

Music as Global Culture

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Prerequisite: MUSC151. Restriction: Must be in a major within the ARHU-School of Music department. Credit only granted for: MUSC220 or MUSC260. Explores how and why people create, transform, and move music around the globe. Taking a comparative approach to Western art musics and other musics of the world, course will examine a variety of musical practices in their social, political, and economic contexts. Experiential knowledge will be developed through hands-on ethnographic research.

Fall 2025

Brendan Kibbee

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Elizabeth Massey

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Brendan Kibbee

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Elizabeth Massey

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Siv Lie

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John Witzleben

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During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.54 between 295 students*

MUSC260 Grade Distribution+-05101520253035404550556065707580% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 17.97%
A: 31.19%
A+: 30.17%
B-: 2.71%
B: 3.39%
B+: 4.41%
C-: 1.69%
C+: 0.68%
D+: 0.34%
F: 2.03%
W: 4.07%
other: 1.36%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.