Through the Five College interchange, students may take courses for credit at any of the five campuses for no extra charge. Inter-campus travel is easy thanks to the fare-free Five College bus system. Consult the Five College online course catalog for current course offerings.
Introductions/Surveys
American Folk & Traditional Music (Miller; Hampshire)
Introduction to World Music (Sarkissian; Smith)
Language, Culture, and Communication (Samuels; UMass)
Music of the Whole Earth (Reck; Amherst)
Roll over Beethoven: A History of Rock (Waksman; Smith)
Introduction to Ethnomusicology (Samuels; UMass)
Topics
The Beatles and Their Age (Reck; Amherst)
Cultural Acoustics (Samuels; UMass)
East Meets West: Mozart to World Beat (Sarkissian; Smith)
Improving History: The Development of Jazz (Waksman; Smith)
Metal and Punk: Rock History Out Loud (Waksman; Smith)
Jazz and Modernism (Margo Edwards and Constance Hill; Hampshire)
Music & Gender (Sarkissian; Smith)
Rhythm Meets Blues: A Social History of Rock & Roll (Miller; Hampshire)
Seminar on American Music (Reck; Amherst)
Seminar in Rock 'n' Roll (Reck; Amherst)
Writing About Music (Miller; Hampshire)
Area Studies
Area Studies in Ethnomusicology: East Asia (Sarkissian; Smith)
Area Studies in Ethnomusicology: Insular Southeast Asia (Sarkissian; Smith)
Music and Culture of the Caribbean (Miller; Hampshire)
Music of Immigrant America (Miller; Hampshire)
Music of Southeast Asia (Sarkissian; Smith)
Seminars in World Music: India/South Asia; East Asia/China, Korea, Japan; Indonesia; Native America;
Africa (Reck; Amherst & Smith)
Irish and Irish-American Music (Miller; Hampshire)
Theory/Method
Applied Ethnomusicology (Miller; Hampshire)
Improvisation and Composition from a World Music Perspective (Reck; Amherst)
Language in Culture and Society (Samuels; UMass)
Making Sense of Sound: American Popular Music (Waksman; Smith)
Musical Beginnings (Miller; Hampshire)
Five College Music Website
Five College Early Music Website
