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The aim of the minor in musicology is to give students of all disciplines basic training in musicology and thus to introduce them to the world of music, culture and contemporary musical composition.

According to the proposed 30-credit program, any interested student can acquire skills in music history and science. The program is geared both towards the history of music as well as the more contemporary issues of musical language, sociology, analysis and aesthetics. 

The course thus provides training which encourages openness and dialogue with today's musical world whilst still providing the student with the rigor of classical musicological university training.

The " target audience " is first level students (students in the first two years of their university degree courses) who wish to obtain training in the world of music, even if they aren't necessarily musicians themselves.The minor in musicology thus admits students of all disciplines who are taking a university baccalaureate. There are no entry requirements. 

Note :

The following are also admitted onto the course :

- adults who, as part of adult continuing education, wish to work on the musical side of their knowledge.People already in working life, musical or not, who would like to add a musical element to their training;

- students in musical institutions (IMEP, Royal conservatories of music, IAD, etc) who, immersed in musical practice, would like to obtain more theoretical and/or critical training. 

In these two cases, applications will be examined in the form of a file and application letter to be sent to the academic in charge of the program. Training will then lead to a university certificate in musicology.

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Mandatory Optional Courses not taught this academic year Periodic courses not taught this academic year Periodic courses taught this academic year Two year courses
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Students must gain a total of 30 credits over two years; ideally 15 credits per year.
Compulsory courses (21credits)
MUSI1501	Introduction to Scientific Practice in Musicology (This course is compulsory in the first year of the minor.)  (in French)	Brigitte Van Wymeersch	22.5h	4credits	1q	x
MUSI1511	Music History (notions) (If this course has already been taken for the major, students may replace it with another course not yet studied for the minor.)  (in French)	N.	37.5h	5credits		x	x
MUSI1514	Musical Analysis (forms and genres)   (in French)	Brigitte Van Wymeersch	22.5h	3credits	2q	x	x
MUSI1526	Technology of Music. Organology (historical part)   (in French)	N.	22.5h	3credits		x	x
MUSI1527	Sociology and Dissemination of Music : from the 19th century to the Present and Media Musicology   (in French)	N.	22.5h	3credits		x	x
One of the two following courses (3credits)
MUSI1512	History of Music (from 1750 to the Present)   (in French)	Christophe Pirenne	22.5h	3credits	1q	x	x
MUSI1522	History of Music (from its Origins to 1750)   (in French)	N.	22.5h	3credits		x	x
Optional courses (9credits)
MUSI1503	20th and 21st century Music  (in French)	Christophe Pirenne	22.5h	3credits	2q	x	x
MUSI1508	Aesthetics and Philosophy  (in French)	N.	22.5h	3credits	2q	x	x
MUSI1509	Campus opera  (in French)	Brigitte Van Wymeersch	22.5h	3credits	1+2q	x	x
MUSI1510	Campus opera  (in French)	N.	22.5h	3credits	1+2q	x	x
MUSI1512	History of Music (from 1750 to the Present)   (in French)	Christophe Pirenne	22.5h	3credits	1q	x	x
MUSI1516	Technology of Music. Organology (methodological part)   (in French)	Anne-Emmanuelle Ceulemans	22.5h	3credits	2q	x	x
MUSI1517	World Music and Culture   (in French)	John Philippe Van Tiggelen	22.5h	3credits	1q	x	x
MUSI1522	History of Music (from its Origins to 1750)   (in French)	N.	22.5h	3credits		x	x
MUSI1524	Musical Analysis (languages and theory)   (in French)	N.	22.5h	3credits		x	x

 

All Bachelor	⇒   ⇒	Master in History of Art and Archaeology: Musicology [120.0] Master in History of Art and Archaeology: Musicology [60.0]	Direct access

Academic in charge: Brigitte VAN WYMEERSCH
Contact people : Bernadette VERVAREN et Annick VAN MEENSEL, administrative secretaries of the department of history of art and archeology, Collège Erasme, office b 154, , tel : 010/47.48.70.

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Enrolling for the minor

1. Organizational details
This point does not apply to this minor. 

2. Admission to the minor
This point does not apply to this minor.

3. Enrolling on the minor
http://www.uclouvain.be/2009-optionbac.html

In Year 2 of the bachelor’s degree
Students may enrol online for their minor after having enrolled for their year of study.
Students who are retaking their second year are automatically re-enrolled for the same minor.

In Year 3 of the bachelor’s degree
When they enrol for the third year, students are automatically enrolled for the second part of the option course. The same applies to students retaking their third year (BAC3).

All requests for exemption from this rule must be submitted to the adviser from the relevant programme.

5. Changes to the minor enrollment form
Requests to change the enrollment form, must be sent, with supporting reasons, to the conseiller aux études (course adviser) of the faculty to which the student belongs by 10 October.

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Course timetable

1. Consulting the course timetable
The timetable can be consulted at this address: http://www.uclouvain.be/232660.html.

Students must also consult the general faculty timetable on the Zeus site: http://www.uclouvain.be/fltr.html
for courses which do not feature on the list of minor course times.  

Last-minute changes are included in the section "valves étudiants" (student bulletin board) on the following site:  
http://www.uclouvain.be/fltr.html

2. Resolving possible timetable clashes using an equivalence table
The equivalence table may be consulted in the secretariat of the department which is running the minor. Contact person : the person in charge of the minor, for advice and approval of possible changes. 

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Enrollment form for minor activities

1. Information on entry requirements 
This point is not applicable to this minor.

2. Enrolling for minor program activities 
Enrolment for activities (courses) in the minor should be done at the same time as enrolment for activities (courses) in the main subject.
Enrolment for courses is done by using the special menu in the virtual office.

3. Obtaining a visa from the person in charge of the minor 
Once the activities form has been filled in, the student must ask the person in charge of the minor for a visa in order to pass it on to his/her faculty secretariat. 

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Available support 

1. Information on the course service
A certain number of lectures should, over time, be available on the Web and should ideally be accompanied by exercises to aid self-study. 
Ask full-time course staff members for further information. 

2. Consulting the table of available support for each activity  
Please ask full-time members of staff for information. 

Where alternative pedagogical systems are proposed for an activity, they are only intended for students who are enrolled on the activity in question as part of their minor and who have demonstrated that they are unable to attend classes. The written consent of the teacher will be required. 

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Organization of exams

1. Registering for exams
Registering for minor course exams is done on the registration form for the main year of study (your department's secretariat).

2. Consulting exam times
Exam times can be consulted at the following address: http://www.uclouvain.be/232697.html.

N.B. : to register on the "open" lists for some exams, students should make direct contact with the central secretariat of the Faculté de philosophie et lettres.