MUSC 116Introduction to Conducting
Music · 2 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Fundamentals of conducting, including basic skills, techniques, analysis, and repertoire.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 20A, 20B, 20C, 120A.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MUSC 116
4 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 7 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MUSC 116
- MUSC 117Study and Conducting of Instrumental and Choral Literature
- MUSC C118AAdvanced Choral Conducting
- MUSC C118BChoral Techniques and Methods
- MUSC C218AAdvanced Choral Conducting
- MUSC C218BChoral Techniques and Methods
5 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 10 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.