Program: Performing Arts and Social Justice, Music Concentration, Major - University of San Francisco

2018-2019 Catalog

Apr 16, 2025

The Performing Arts and Social Justice major provides a training program in dance, music, and theater, with a core community component and a space for critical reflection.

Program Learning Outcomes

Please see the Performing Arts and Social Justice Major .

Major Requirements (48 units)

Foundational

PASJ 160 - Body in Perf: Alexander Tech
PASJ 171 - Production and Design I
PASJ 180 - Music and Social History
or
MUS 180 - Music and Social History
PASJ 280 - Contemp Perf. Practices (COPP)
PASJ 380 - Perf Arts & Comm Exchange
PASJ 480 - Senior Project
PASJ 480 - Senior Project

Music Concentration Required Courses:

MUS 300 - Music Theory I
MUS 301 - History of Western Art Music
MUS 305 - Anthropology of Music
or
ANTH 305 - Anthropology of Music
MUS 392 - Seminar in Western Art Music

Music Concentration Elective Courses

Complete two MUS 120:129 courses
Complete one MUS 200-level courses or any Core F Visual and Performing Arts course except MUS 301

Theory/Comp Topics

Complete 4 units in MUS 310:329

Ensemble (4 Semesters)

Complete four semesters of ensemble courses:

MUS 110 - Choir
or
MUS 111 - Instrumental Ensemble **

Note:

* All majors must take two semesters worth of directed private study in an instrument or voice.

** 0-8 units, counting as USF electives, not major units: All majors must participate in 4 semesters of performance with one of our USF ensembles.

Crew Requirement:

Complete PASJ 171 , Section 02