MSC IND 112AIntroduction to Songwriting
Music Industry · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Learning and employment of craft of songwriting. Examination, analysis, and implementation of song structure, lyric and melody writing, arranging, orchestrating, and recording techniques. Evolution of songwriting in modern society since advent of phonograph player/radio; how songs and society affect and reflect one another; how this has informed songs and songwriters.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Spring 2026
- Summer 2026
- Fall 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MSC IND 112A
- MSC IND 112CSongwriter's Workshop
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.