Music Studies

In the Faculty of Arts and Science, Music is approached as one of the liberal arts and taught as cultural history. This humanistic emphasis aims at a high degree of correlation with other disciplines such as Fine Art, Cultural Anthropology, Languages and Literatures, History, and Philosophy.  

Note that unlike students in the Mus.Bac. program at the Faculty of Music, students in the Specialist and Major programs are not given individual applied music instruction (e.g. piano or voice lessons). They are, however, offered a thorough grounding in musicology, and strong training in both ethnomusicology and music theory, with the option of increasing their exposure to the latter two disciplines via their upper-year option courses. 

The following program options are available. (All listed below require an audition except the minor program.) 

 BACHELOR OF ARTS IN MUSIC  

Program options for the Bachelor of Arts degree in music are as follows:  

• Specialist (at least 10 credits out of 20),  

• Specialist with ensemble option* (at least 11.5 credits),  

• Major (at least 7 credits),  

• Major with ensemble option* (at least 8 credits), and  

• Minor (4 credits).  

Full details on all above program requirements can be found here. 

Many exciting general interest courses in music are available to all students. Search for courses with the prefix MUS for these opportunities to explore the world of music! 

*Note the ensemble option was not available for 2021-22.