## ##   * Overview
  * Program Requirements
  * Plan of Study
The computer science and music combined major with concentration in music
technology focuses on the creative application of sound and music technologies
to a broad range of artistic, social, and industrial purposes. An emphasis is
maintained throughout on imaginative exploration, collaboration across
disciplines, and real-world experience. It is designed to give students a firm
foundation in music and computing for digital audio technologies. This program
is recommended for students with a strong background in music prior to
entering Northeastern.
* * *
  * Concentrations and course offerings may vary by campus and/or by program modality. Please consult with your advisor or admissions coach for the course availability each term at your campus or within your program modality.
  * Certain options within the program may be  _required_ at certain campuses or for certain program modalities. Please consult with your advisor or admissions coach for requirements at your campus or for your program modality. 
* * *
Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete
any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified
and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major
requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.
## Computer Science Courses
Course List Code | Title | Hours  
---|---|---  
Computer Science Overview|  
Must be taken in alignment with your home college:|  
[CS 1200](/search/?P=CS%201200 "CS 1200")| First Year Seminar| 1  
or [MUSC 1000](/search/?P=MUSC%201000 "MUSC 1000")|  Music at Northeastern  
[CS 1210](/search/?P=CS%201210 "CS 1210")| Professional Development for Khoury
Co-op| 1  
or [EEAM 2000](/search/?P=EEAM%202000 "EEAM 2000")|  Professional Development
for Co-op  
Computer Science Fundamental Courses|  
[CS 1800](/search/?P=CS%201800 "CS 1800")  
and [CS 1802](/search/?P=CS%201802 "CS 1802")| Discrete Structures  
and Seminar for CS 1800| 5  
[CS 2500](/search/?P=CS%202500 "CS 2500")  
and [CS 2501](/search/?P=CS%202501 "CS 2501")| Fundamentals of Computer
Science 1  
and Lab for CS 2500| 5  
[CS 2510](/search/?P=CS%202510 "CS 2510")  
and [CS 2511](/search/?P=CS%202511 "CS 2511")| Fundamentals of Computer
Science 2  
and Lab for CS 2510| 5  
Computer Science Required Courses|  
[CS 3000](/search/?P=CS%203000 "CS 3000")| Algorithms and Data| 4  
[CS 3200](/search/?P=CS%203200 "CS 3200")| Introduction to Databases| 4  
[CS 3500](/search/?P=CS%203500 "CS 3500")  
and [CS 3501](/search/?P=CS%203501 "CS 3501")| Object-Oriented Design  
and Lab for CS 3500| 5  
[CS 4500](/search/?P=CS%204500 "CS 4500")| Software Development| 4  
or [CS 4530](/search/?P=CS%204530 "CS 4530")|  Fundamentals of Software
Engineering  
[IS 4300](/search/?P=IS%204300 "IS 4300")| Human Computer Interaction
(Integrative)| 4  
Khoury Elective |   
With advisor approval, directed study, research, project study, and
appropriate graduate-level courses may also be taken as upper-division
electives.|  
Complete 8 semester hours of CS, CY, DS or IS classes that are not already
required. Choose courses within the following ranges:| 8  
[CS 2500](/search/?P=CS%202500 "CS 2500") or higher, except [CS
5010](/search/?P=CS%205010 "CS 5010")|  
CY 2000 or higher, except [CY 4930](/search/?P=CY%204930 "CY 4930")|  
[DS 2500](/search/?P=DS%202500 "DS 2500") or higher, except DS 4900|  
[IS 2000](/search/?P=IS%202000 "IS 2000") or higher, except IS 4900|  
## Music Courses
Course List Code | Title | Hours  
---|---|---  
Music Theory Placement|  
All students must take a music theory placement exam. Students who successfully complete a music theory placement exam may substitute a general elective for the [MUSC 1119](/search/?P=MUSC%201119 "MUSC 1119") requirement. Students who do not place into [MUSC 1201](/search/?P=MUSC%201201 "MUSC 1201") must first take the following course: |   
[MUSC 1119](/search/?P=MUSC%201119 "MUSC 1119")| Fundamentals of Western Music
Theory| 4  
Music Theory and Composition|  
[MUSC 1201](/search/?P=MUSC%201201 "MUSC 1201")| Music Theory 1| 4  
[MUSC 1202](/search/?P=MUSC%201202 "MUSC 1202")| Music Theory 2| 4  
Complete one of the following:| 4  
[MUSC 2111](/search/?P=MUSC%202111 "MUSC 2111")| Algebra and Geometry of
Music|  
[MUSC 3300](/search/?P=MUSC%203300 "MUSC 3300")| Music Perception and
Cognition (Music Perception and Cognition)|  
[MUSC 3541](/search/?P=MUSC%203541 "MUSC 3541")| Music Analysis Seminar|  
Music in Context|  
Select one of the following for four semester hours:| 4  
[MUSC 1001](/search/?P=MUSC%201001 "MUSC 1001")| Music in Everyday Life|  
[MUSC 1002](/search/?P=MUSC%201002 "MUSC 1002")  
and [MUSC 1003](/search/?P=MUSC%201003 "MUSC 1003")| Music in Everyday Life  
and Lab for MUSC 1002|  
Contemporary / Popular Music|  
Complete one of the following:| 4  
[MUSC 2101](/search/?P=MUSC%202101 "MUSC 2101")| Black Popular Music|  
[MUSC 2150](/search/?P=MUSC%202150 "MUSC 2150")| Making a Musical: Analysis,
Craft, and Creation|  
[MUSC 2310](/search/?P=MUSC%202310 "MUSC 2310")| Popular Music Since 1945|  
[MUSC 2311](/search/?P=MUSC%202311 "MUSC 2311")| Topics in American Music|  
[MUSC 2317](/search/?P=MUSC%202317 "MUSC 2317")| Punk Rock|  
[MUSC 2320](/search/?P=MUSC%202320 "MUSC 2320")| 40,000 Years of Music
Technology|  
[MUSC 2336](/search/?P=MUSC%202336 "MUSC 2336")| The Festival Experience|  
[MUSC 2340](/search/?P=MUSC%202340 "MUSC 2340")| Divas, DJs, and Double
Standards|  
[MUSC 2351](/search/?P=MUSC%202351 "MUSC 2351")| Music, Sound, and the Screen|  
[MUSC 2380](/search/?P=MUSC%202380 "MUSC 2380")| The World of Choral Music|  
[MUSC 3352](/search/?P=MUSC%203352 "MUSC 3352")| Sounding Human|  
[MUSC 3353](/search/?P=MUSC%203353 "MUSC 3353")| Music and the Racial
Imagination|  
[MUSC 3354](/search/?P=MUSC%203354 "MUSC 3354")| Sound and the Sacred|  
[MUSI 3360](/search/?P=MUSI%203360 "MUSI 3360")| Global Music Industries in
Context|  
[MUSI 3401](/search/?P=MUSI%203401 "MUSI 3401")| Hip Hop in the Music
Industry|  
Music Technology|  
[MUSC 2350](/search/?P=MUSC%202350 "MUSC 2350")| Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
of Music| 4  
[MUST 1220](/search/?P=MUST%201220 "MUST 1220")| Introduction to Music
Technology| 4  
[MUST 2102](/search/?P=MUST%202102 "MUST 2102")| Composing with Digital
Technologies| 4  
[MUST 2431](/search/?P=MUST%202431 "MUST 2431")| Computer Music Fundamentals|
4  
Music Industry|  
Complete one of the following:| 4  
[MUSI 1230](/search/?P=MUSI%201230 "MUSI 1230")| Introduction to Music
Industry|  
[MUSI 2331](/search/?P=MUSI%202331 "MUSI 2331")| Music Production and
Recording 2|  
Music Technology Electives|  
Complete two of the following:| 8  
[MUSC 4510](/search/?P=MUSC%204510 "MUSC 4510")| Music and the Brain Research|  
[MUST 3300](/search/?P=MUST%203300 "MUST 3300")| Musical Interactions in
Extended Reality|  
[MUST 3601](/search/?P=MUST%203601 "MUST 3601")| Digital Audio Signal
Processing|  
[MUST 3602](/search/?P=MUST%203602 "MUST 3602")| Electronics for Music|  
[MUST 3603](/search/?P=MUST%203603 "MUST 3603")| Embedded Audio Programming|  
[MUST 3973](/search/?P=MUST%203973 "MUST 3973")| Special Topics in Music
Technology|  
[MUST 4610](/search/?P=MUST%204610 "MUST 4610")| Composition for Electronic
Instruments|  
[MUST 5973](/search/?P=MUST%205973 "MUST 5973")| Special Topics in Music
Technology|  
Music Technology Capstone|  
[MUST 4611](/search/?P=MUST%204611 "MUST 4611")| Music Technology Capstone| 4  
## Foundations of Psychology
Course List Code | Title | Hours  
---|---|---  
[PSYC 1101](/search/?P=PSYC%201101 "PSYC 1101")| Foundations of Psychology| 4  
## Computing and Social Issues
Course List Code | Title | Hours  
---|---|---  
Complete one of the following:| 4  
[AFCS 2600](/search/?P=AFCS%202600 "AFCS 2600")| Issues in Race, Science, and
Technology|  
[CY 4170](/search/?P=CY%204170 "CY 4170")| The Law, Ethics, and Policy of Data
and Digital Technologies|  
[CY 5240](/search/?P=CY%205240 "CY 5240")| Cyberlaw: Privacy, Ethics, and
Digital Rights|  
[HIST 2220](/search/?P=HIST%202220 "HIST 2220")| History of Technology|  
[INSH 2102](/search/?P=INSH%202102 "INSH 2102")| Bostonography: The City
through Data, Texts, Maps, and Networks|  
[IS 1300](/search/?P=IS%201300 "IS 1300")| Knowledge in a Digital World|  
or [PHIL 1300](/search/?P=PHIL%201300 "PHIL 1300")|  Knowledge in a Digital
World  
[PHIL 1145](/search/?P=PHIL%201145 "PHIL 1145")| Technology and Human Values|  
[SOCL 1280](/search/?P=SOCL%201280 "SOCL 1280")| The Twenty-First-Century
Workplace|  
[SOCL 2485](/search/?P=SOCL%202485 "SOCL 2485")| Environment, Technology, and
Society|  
[SOCL 4528](/search/?P=SOCL%204528 "SOCL 4528")| Technology and Society|  
## Computer Science Writing Requirement
Course List Code | Title | Hours  
---|---|---  
College Writing|  
[ENGW 1111](/search/?P=ENGW%201111 "ENGW 1111")| First-Year Writing| 4  
Advanced Writing in the Disciplines|  
[ENGW 3302](/search/?P=ENGW%203302 "ENGW 3302")| Advanced Writing in the
Technical Professions| 4  
or [ENGW 3314](/search/?P=ENGW%203314 "ENGW 3314")|  Advanced Writing in the
Arts, Media, and Design  
or [ENGW 3315](/search/?P=ENGW%203315 "ENGW 3315")|  Interdisciplinary
Advanced Writing in the Disciplines  
## Required General Electives
Course List Code | Title | Hours  
---|---|---  
Complete 16 semester hours of general electives.| 16  
## NUpath Requirements Satisfied
  * Engaging with the Natural and Designed World
  * Exploring Creative Expression and Innovation
  * Interpreting Culture
  * Conducting Formal and Quantitative Reasoning
  * Understanding Societies and Institutions
  * Analyzing and Using Data
  * Writing in the First Year
  * Advanced Writing in the Disciplines
  * Writing-Intensive in the Major
  * Demonstrating Thought and Action in a Capstone
Integrating Knowledge and Skills Through Experience is satisfied through co-
op.
## Khoury College GPA Requirement
Minimum cumulative 2.000 GPA required in all CS, CY, DS, and IS courses
## Music Technology Grade Requirement
Students must maintain at least a 2.667 GPA (B- average) in the requirements
of the music half of the combined major (MUSC, MUSI, and MUST courses) and
also complete all required music courses with grades of at least C. Students
who fail to meet the above standards will be placed on departmental probation;
those who remain on probation for two consecutive semesters will be dropped
from the major.
## Program Requirement
133 total semester hours required
## Four Years, Two Co-ops in Spring/Summer 1
Year 1  
---  
Fall| Hours| Spring| Hours| Summer 1| Hours| Summer 2| Hours  
[CS 1200](/search/?P=CS%201200 "CS 1200")| 1| [CS 2510](/search/?P=CS%202510
"CS 2510")  
and [CS 2511](/search/?P=CS%202511 "CS 2511")| 5| [CS
3500](/search/?P=CS%203500 "CS 3500")  
and [CS 3501](/search/?P=CS%203501 "CS 3501")| 5| Elective| 4  
[CS 1800](/search/?P=CS%201800 "CS 1800")  
and [CS 1802](/search/?P=CS%201802 "CS 1802")| 5| [MUSC
1202](/search/?P=MUSC%201202 "MUSC 1202")1| 4| [PSYC
1101](/search/?P=PSYC%201101 "PSYC 1101")| 4| Elective| 4  
[CS 2500](/search/?P=CS%202500 "CS 2500")  
and [CS 2501](/search/?P=CS%202501 "CS 2501")| 5| [MUSC 2350](/search/?P=MUSC%202350 "MUSC 2350")| 4|  |   
[ENGW 1111](/search/?P=ENGW%201111 "ENGW 1111")| 4| [MUST 1220](/search/?P=MUST%201220 "MUST 1220")1| 4|  |   
[MUSC 1201](/search/?P=MUSC%201201 "MUSC 1201")1| 4|  |  |   
| 19|  | 17|  | 9|  | 8  
Year 2  
Fall| Hours| Spring| Hours| Summer 1| Hours| Summer 2| Hours  
[CS 1210](/search/?P=CS%201210 "CS 1210")| 1| Co-op| 0| Co-op| 0| [ENGW
3302](/search/?P=ENGW%203302 "ENGW 3302"), [ 3314](/search/?P=ENGW%203314
"ENGW 3314"), or [ 3315](/search/?P=ENGW%203315 "ENGW 3315")| 4  
[CS 3000](/search/?P=CS%203000 "CS 3000")| 4|  |  | Elective| 4  
[CS 3200](/search/?P=CS%203200 "CS 3200")| 4|  |  |   
[MUSC 1001](/search/?P=MUSC%201001 "MUSC 1001") or [ 1002](/search/?P=MUSC%201002 "MUSC 1002") _**and**_ [ 1003](/search/?P=MUSC%201003 "MUSC 1003")| 4|  |  |   
[MUST 2431](/search/?P=MUST%202431 "MUST 2431")| 4|  |  |   
| 17|  | 0|  | 0|  | 8  
Year 3  
Fall| Hours| Spring| Hours| Summer 1| Hours| Summer 2| Hours  
[MUSC 2111](/search/?P=MUSC%202111 "MUSC 2111"), [
3541](/search/?P=MUSC%203541 "MUSC 3541"), or [ 3300](/search/?P=MUSC%203300
"MUSC 3300")| 4| Co-op| 0| Co-op| 0| Elective| 4  
Contemporary music requirement 1| 4|  |  | Elective| 4  
Khoury Elective| 4|  |  |   
Music technology elective 1| 4|  |  |   
| 16|  | 0|  | 0|  | 8  
Year 4  
Fall| Hours| Spring| Hours|  |   
[CS 4500](/search/?P=CS%204500 "CS 4500") or [ 4530](/search/?P=CS%204530 "CS 4530")| 4| [IS 4300](/search/?P=IS%204300 "IS 4300")| 4|  |   
[MUST 2102](/search/?P=MUST%202102 "MUST 2102")| 4| [MUST 4611](/search/?P=MUST%204611 "MUST 4611")1| 4|  |   
Computing and Social Issues| 4| Music industry elective| 4|  |   
Khoury elective| 4| Music technology elective| 4|  |   
| 16|  | 16|  | |  |   
Total Hours: 134  
1
Indicates course must be taken in the term listed.