The program's distinctively flexible curriculum permits students to sample liberally from departmental graduate seminars and also encourages them to explore course offerings in other academic units. Students begin learning about the methods and materials of music studies with core seminars in ethnomusicology and historiography while creating individually tailored programs of further study that suit their scholarly and professional needs. This might mean developing fluency in textual analysis, ethnography, historiography, critical theory, and science and technology studies, all of which fall within the program's inclusive approach to the study of music and sound.