MUS 618 Psychology of Music. This course is designed to provide students with a broad overview of major topics in music psychology, such as acoustics, psychoacoustics, hearing, perception, music cognition, psychophysiological and emotional responses to music, music and the brain, biomusic  and an evolutionary basis for musicality, the genetic basis of musicality, musical expressiveness in performance, music therapy-music medicine-performing arts medicine, the psychology of music learning, the musical personality, the anthropology of music, and the sociology of music. (download a sample syllabus below)

MUS 659: Philosophy of Music. This course covers major philosophers who have written about art, aesthetics, and music, including Plato, Aristotle, Boethius, Kant, Schiller, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Hanslick, Meyer, Langer, Goodman, Clifton, Adorno, and others. A particular emphasis is on the student's development of a personal philosophy expressed in both written and oral form. (download a sample syllabus below)