Computer Science and Music with Concentration in Music Technology, BS (Boston)
Undergraduatemajor2027 catalogComputer Information ScienceBoston133 semester hours totalunverified parse — check the source
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Computer Science Overview
From the catalog
Must be taken in alignment with your home college:
- One of:
- One of:
Computer Science Fundamental Courses
From the catalog
All students can take a self-assessment to attempt to place out of CS 2000 and CS 2001. Students who place out of CS 2000 and CS 2001 will instead substitute 4-5 semester hours of CS, CY, or DS coursework at the 3000 level or higher not otherwise required in the degree.
- CS 1800 — Discrete Structures
- All of:
- All of:
Computer Science Required Courses
- CS 2484 — Principles of Human-Computer Interaction
- All of:
- All of:
- CS 3200 — Introduction to Databases
- One of:
Khoury Approved Electives
From the catalog
With advisor approval, directed study, research, project study, and appropriate graduate-level courses may also be taken as upper-division electives.
Complete 8 semester hours from within the following options:
CS 2300 or higher, except CS 5010
CY 2000 or higher, except CY 4930
DS 2500 or higher, except DS 4900
- Choose 8 semester hours from:
Music Theory Placement
From the catalog
All students can take a music theory placement exam to place out of MUSC 1119. Students who place out of MUSC 1119 will substitute it with a general elective course.
- MUSC 1119 — Fundamentals of Western Music Theory
Music Theory and Composition
- MUSC 1201 — Music Theory 1
- MUSC 1202 — Music Theory 2
From the catalog
Complete one of the following:
- One of:
Music in Context
- MUSC 1001 — Music in Everyday Life
Contemporary / Popular Music
From the catalog
Complete one of the following:
- One of:
- MUSC 2101 — Black Popular Music
- MUSC 2150 — Making a Musical: Analysis, Craft, and Creation
- MUSC 2310 — Popular Music Since 1945
- MUSC 2311 — Topics in American Music
- MUSC 2317 — Punk Rock
- MUSC 2320 — 40,000 Years of Music Technology
- MUSC 2336 — The Festival Experience
- MUSC 2340 — Divas, DJs, and Double Standards
- MUSC 2351 — Music, Sound, and the Screen
- MUSC 2355 — Music and Sports in American Culture
- MUSC 3352 — Sounding Human
- MUSC 3353 — Music and the Racial Imagination
- MUSC 3354 — Sound and the Sacred
- MUSI 3360 — Global Music Industries in Context
- MUSI 3401 — Hip Hop in the Music Industry
Music Technology
- MUSC 2350 — Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Music
- MUST 1220 — Introduction to Music Technology
- MUST 2102 — Composing with Digital Technologies
- MUST 2431 — Computer Music Fundamentals
Music Industry
From the catalog
Complete one of the following:
- One of:
Music Technology Electives
From the catalog
Complete two of the following:
- Choose 8 semester hours from:
- MUSC 4510 — Music and the Brain Research
- MUST 3300 — Musical Interactions in Extended Reality
- MUST 3601 — Digital Audio Signal Processing
- MUST 3602 — Electronics for Music
- MUST 3603 — Embedded Audio Programming
- MUST 3973 — Special Topics in Music Technology
- MUST 4600 — Digital Audio Signal Analysis
- MUST 4610 — Composition for Electronic Instruments
- MUST 5510 — Sound, Motion, and Computer Interaction
- MUST 5520 — Data Sonification
- MUST 5973 — Special Topics in Music Technology
Music Technology Capstone
- MUST 4611 — Music Technology Capstone
Foundations of Psychology
- PSYC 1101 — Foundations of Psychology
Computing and Social Issues
From the catalog
Complete one of the following:
- One of:
- AFCS 2600 — Issues in Race, Science, and Technology
- CY 4170 — The Law, Ethics, and Policy of Data and Digital Technologies
- CY 5240 — Cyberlaw: Privacy, Ethics, and Digital Rights
- One of:
- HIST 2220 — History of Technology
- INSH 2102 — Bostonography: The City through Data, Texts, Maps, and Networks
- JRNL 3700 — Data Storytelling
- PHIL 1145 — Technology and Human Values
- SOCL 1280 — The Twenty-First-Century Workplace
- SOCL 2485 — Environment, Technology, and Society
- SOCL 4528 — Technology and Society
College Writing
- ENGW 1111 — First-Year Writing
Advanced Writing in the Disciplines
- One of:
Plus 16 semester hours of general electives.
Substitutions
Possible equivalents for this program — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:
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