Course Description

Musicology 13: Punk: Music, History, Subculture, MUSCLG 13

Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Developments in punk music in their historical and subcultural contexts. Survey of prepunk and musical antecedents in 1960s, rise of punk in 1970s, and tracing of its expressive trajectories to present day. P/NP or letter grading.

Key Information

Credit: 5 quarter units / 3.33 semester units credit
UC Los Angeles, Musicology

Course Credit:

Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.

If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.

UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit

UC Davis:
General Education: AH, VL.

UC Irvine:
General Education: IV - Arts and Humanities

UC Los Angeles:
General Education: Visual and Performance Analysis

UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)

UC Riverside:
General Education: Elective units

UC San Diego:
General Education: GE: Revelle-Fine Arts; ERC - Fine arts; TMC 1 course toward Fine Arts GE or 1 course toward lower division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; Warren - May be counted depending on major/PofC/AS; Sixth - 1 NAHR; Muir: 1 course in a Fine Arts theme in "Music"; Seventh - 1 course towards Alternatives - Arts; Sixth - 1 course NAHR

UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit

UC Santa Barbara:
General Education: Area F - Arts

UC Santa Cruz:
General Education: IM

More About The Course

All lectures and course content is online and asynchronous.

Course Creator

J.A. Schwartz
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