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The musicology graduate program provides comprehensive and demanding education in the discipline's scholarly traditions. Learners gain from working alongside faculty and peers in ethnomusicology and composition, plus the chance to attend select seminars at neighboring UC institutions. Our intimate program fosters strong mentor-student connections. Previous National Research Council evaluations ranked our department among the nation's elite. Recent seminar subjects have spanned varied areas like musical adaptations, improvisation techniques, operatic nationalism, and Debussy's compositions. Doctoral research has explored musical traditions across four centuries (16th-20th). Alumni have secured prestigious positions at institutions including UT San Antonio, with recent placements at UNM, University of Alaska, CSU Sacramento, and FSU.