Located in one of the most culturally rich and diverse cities in the world, the CCNY Music Department offers distinct degree programs in popular music, sonic arts, and jazz.
POPULAR MUSIC STUDIES
Popular Music Studies at CCNY is a NYSED-approved online degree that includes courses in the history, analysis, composition, and socio-cultural context of contemporary popular music. The program offers many courses in HyFlex modality, allowing students to attend regular, in-person courses, but to also have the option to complete the degree online if they wish. This flexibility can accommodate students from semester to semester as well, so one semester can be online for a student while the following semester could be in-person via HyFlex.
SONIC ARTS
The Sonic Arts Center offers a four-year, Bachelor of Music (BM) degree with a major in Sonic Arts. Our program’s balanced emphasis in music and audio technology create graduates that are highly marketable service providers for today’s competitive music and audio technology industry.
JAZZ STUDIES
The City College of New York offers a Bachelor of Music (BM) and Master of Music (MM) in Jazz Studies (instrumental and vocal)
MUSIC MINOR
The Music Minor is highly flexible, with only one required course:
- MUS 13100, MUSIC THEORY FUNDAMENTALS
Our mission is to cultivate students’ analytical, creative, and performative understandings of music through an education rooted in scholarly and active music-making environments. Our students are trained to think critically, apply contemporary technologies, and learn repertoire, thus preparing them for careers as informed and inquiring thinkers, creators, performers, teachers, and cultural leaders.
Jonathan Pieslak, Department Chair
Marla Alexandre, Administrative Coordinator
p: 212-650-5411
e: music@ccny.cuny.edu
Music Department, SH72
The City College, CUNY
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031