Interdisciplinary Music Studies Overview
Interdisciplinary Music Studies is where curiosity paths and career paths converge. An exciting array of Music and Arts and Science electives organized around a study of music essentials equips students to cultivate their musical interests and find a career in music that’s right for them.
Discover Your Niche
Explore
Exploration lies at the heart of the student experience. Required courses in lower years provide a firm foundation in the history, theory and performance of music. In upper years, students customize their studies by choosing from an exceptional range of electives offered by the Music Faculty and the Faculty of Art and Science.
Choose
Opportunities include honing performance skills, performing in ensembles, and working toward a minor or major in another discipline. Students may choose non-music Arts and Science electives for up to 8 of their 20 degree credits.
Get Certified
Within Interdisciplinary Music Studies, students may take courses outside of core music programming that lead to formally acknowledged certificates granted in conjunction with their degrees. Examples of subjects for which certificates are awarded include Health Applications in Music, Music Technology, Popular Music Studies, Ethnomusicology, and Piano Pedagogy.
Prepare
Interdisciplinary Music Studies prepares students for a range of music-related careers, professional programs, and graduate study options. Exploration of career opportunities is a formal part of the curriculum. Students learn about careers in such areas as arts administration and management, music journalism, entertainment law, music and health, and technology.
Programs
Enter a Broader Sphere
Comprehensively Comprehensive
What better place to pursue interdisciplinary studies than in a faculty and university with an exceptionally comprehensive offering? The University of Toronto and its Music Faculty are the largest university and largest music faculty in Canada. Interdisciplinary Music Studies at the University of Toronto provides students with learning opportunities that cannot be matched for choice and flexibility.
Humanely Scaled
Complementing its large-university offering, Interdisciplinary Music Studies offers a small-university feel. Studying in small classes, collaborating with peers, and engaging with receptive faculty are central to this study area. Upper-year students have options for entering into mentorship relationships with faculty members who share their interests.
Experience a Rich and Diverse Culture
The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music is located in the core of one of the world’s great multicultural cities. Students in Interdisciplinary Music Studies gain exposure to a rich and diverse cultural scene with myriad venues for music and other arts of all styles and genres. The advantages of studying in Toronto include accessing community resources of particular relevance to programming in areas such as ethnomusicology, popular music, and music and health.
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