World Music Minor

The minor in world music is organized around hands-on experience with West African Drumming, Javanese Gamelan, Indian Raga, Jazz, and other musics. It combines experiential immersion with scholarly study (historical, ethnographic, philosophical.) This minor is designed to meet the needs of University of Minnesota students who may not already have training in reading music, but who nonetheless feel music's power, and who wish to deepen their understanding. The minor allows students to explore the diversity of the world's musics—including popular, classical, and folk musics from Minnesota and around the world. Undergraduate students from any college or department at the University of Minnesota may deepen their knowledge of music through this minor, creating a vibrant and diverse cohort of students learning, studying, and playing music together.