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MUS

Stony Brook University
8,199 grades128 courses115 professors7 terms

Department inferred from the subject code on each course. Stony Brook University does not publish a department field with its grade records.

3.71
average GPA across 8,199 grades
+10% vs. Stony Brook University overall (3.39)
94%
A or B
of 8,199 grades
3.1%
D, F or withdrew
of 8,201 enrolled
A84.2%
B9.5%
Every term against the 3.71 department average 7 terms
Fall 2023Summer 2025
Most taken
MUS 119
The Elements of Music
3.49
1,076 grades
−6% vs. dept
MUS 101
Introduction to Western Classical Music
3.67
800 grades
−1% vs. dept
MUS 109
Rock, Popular Music, and Society
3.14
627 grades
−15% vs. dept
MUS 671
Doctoral Instruction In Perfor
3.99
498 grades
+8% vs. dept
MUS 565
Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra
3.99
368 grades
+7% vs. dept
MUS 268
Spirit of Stony Brook Athletic Band
3.85
301 grades
+4% vs. dept
MUS 573
Chamber Music
4.00
278 grades
+8% vs. dept
MUS 309
Music Since 1900
3.96
275 grades
+7% vs. dept
Courses with a grade record · 128
100 level29200 level14300 level38400 level8500 level36600 level3
CourseDistributionGPAvs. deptGrades
100 level29 courses
MUS 101 · Introduction to Western Classical Music
3.67 −1% vs. dept 800
MUS 103 · Introduction to Music and the Cinema
3.60 −3% vs. dept 96
MUS 105 · Music Cultures of the World
3.27 −12% vs. dept 200
MUS 109 · Rock, Popular Music, and Society
3.14 −15% vs. dept 627
MUS 119 · The Elements of Music
3.49 −6% vs. dept 1,076
MUS 120 · Elementary Musicianship
3.50 −6% vs. dept 6
MUS 121 · Musicianship I
3.40 −9% vs. dept 30
MUS 122 · Beginning Keyboard
3.62 −3% vs. dept 20
MUS 130 · Sound Structures
3.58 −4% vs. dept 50
MUS 141 · Keyboard Harmony A
4.00 +8% vs. dept 6
MUS 142 · Keyboard Harmony B
3.81 +3% vs. dept 16
MUS 161 · Piano
3.93 +6% vs. dept 61
MUS 163 · Harpsichord
4.00 +8% vs. dept 6
MUS 165 · Violin
4.00 +8% vs. dept 19
MUS 166 · Viola
3.86 +4% vs. dept 7
MUS 167 · Cello
4.00 +8% vs. dept 15
MUS 168 · String Bass
4.00 +8% vs. dept 9
MUS 169 · Classical Guitar
3.75 +1% vs. dept 15
MUS 170 · Flute
4.00 +8% vs. dept 1
MUS 171 · Oboe
4.00 +8% vs. dept 2
MUS 172 · Clarinet
4.00 +8% vs. dept 5
MUS 173 · Bassoon
4.00 +8% vs. dept 2
MUS 176 · Trumpet
4.00 +8% vs. dept 4
MUS 177 · Trombone
3.93 +6% vs. dept 4
MUS 178 · Saxophone
3.83 +3% vs. dept 6
MUS 180 · Percussion
4.00 +8% vs. dept 10
MUS 182 · Voice
3.92 +6% vs. dept 48
MUS 187 · Other Instruments
4.00 +8% vs. dept 8
MUS 189 · Introduction to Jazz Improvisation
4.00 +8% vs. dept 26
200 level14 courses
MUS 208 · Introduction to Music Technology
3.66 −1% vs. dept 75
MUS 220 · Musicianship II
3.67 −1% vs. dept 8
MUS 221 · Musicianship III
3.04 −18% vs. dept 34
MUS 235 · Introduction to African Drumming
3.95 +6% vs. dept 46
MUS 261 · Stony Brook Chorale
3.91 +5% vs. dept 155
MUS 262 · University Orchestra
4.00 +8% vs. dept 272
MUS 263 · University Wind Ensemble
3.94 +6% vs. dept 143
MUS 264 · Big Band Jazz Ensemble
3.97 +7% vs. dept 20
MUS 265 · Workshop in Performance
4.00 +8% vs. dept 22
MUS 266 · Guitar Workshop
3.98 +7% vs. dept 15
MUS 267 · Small Jazz Ensemble Level 1
4.00 +8% vs. dept 38
MUS 268 · Spirit of Stony Brook Athletic Band
3.85 +4% vs. dept 301
MUS 271 · Camerata Singers
3.93 +6% vs. dept 134
MUS 289 · Small Jazz Ensemble Level 2
4.00 +8% vs. dept 19
300 level38 courses
MUS 300 · Music, Technology, and Digital Culture
3.70 −0% vs. dept 80
MUS 304 · American Music
3.39 −9% vs. dept 86
MUS 306 · The Music and Culture of Hip-Hop
3.51 −5% vs. dept 167
MUS 307 · Imaginative Worlds of Opera
3.34 −10% vs. dept 39
MUS 308 · History of Jazz
3.65 −2% vs. dept 232
MUS 309 · Music Since 1900
3.96 +7% vs. dept 275
MUS 311 · Topics in Ethnomusicology
3.61 −3% vs. dept 33
MUS 315 · The Structural Principles of Music I
3.55 −4% vs. dept 61
MUS 316 · The Structural Principles of Music II
3.64 −2% vs. dept 10
MUS 320 · U.S. Popular Music
3.76 +1% vs. dept 88
MUS 321 · Tonal Harmony I
3.88 +4% vs. dept 37
MUS 322 · Tonal Harmony II
3.80 +2% vs. dept 10
MUS 323 · Techniques of Music, 1880 to the Present
3.47 −7% vs. dept 32
MUS 331 · Musicianship IV
2.69 −28% vs. dept 8
MUS 335 · Advanced African Drumming
4.00 +8% vs. dept 16
MUS 339 · Composition
4.00 +8% vs. dept 1
MUS 340 · Timbre and Technology
2.30 −38% vs. dept 7
MUS 341 · Sound Design
3.17 −15% vs. dept 13
MUS 344 · Audio Engineering
3.36 −10% vs. dept 14
MUS 350 · Western Classical Music Before 1750
3.57 −4% vs. dept 9
MUS 351 · Western Classical Music 1750 to 1900
3.90 +5% vs. dept 35
MUS 352 · Western Classical Music from 1900 to the Present
3.20 −14% vs. dept 10
MUS 361 · Piano
3.99 +7% vs. dept 26
MUS 362 · Piano Pedagogy
4.00 +8% vs. dept 1
MUS 365 · Violin
4.00 +8% vs. dept 8
MUS 366 · Viola
4.00 +8% vs. dept 4
MUS 367 · Cello
4.00 +8% vs. dept 7
MUS 368 · String Bass
4.00 +8% vs. dept 6
MUS 369 · Classical Guitar
3.95 +6% vs. dept 6
MUS 370 · Flute
4.00 +8% vs. dept 4
MUS 375 · Horn
4.00 +8% vs. dept 1
MUS 377 · Trombone
4.00 +8% vs. dept 2
MUS 380 · Percussion
4.00 +8% vs. dept 13
MUS 382 · Voice
3.97 +7% vs. dept 29
MUS 387 · Other Instruments
4.00 +8% vs. dept 1
MUS 388 · Fundamentals of Accompanying
4.00 +8% vs. dept 12
MUS 390 · Advanced Accompanying
4.00 +8% vs. dept 2
MUS 391 · Chamber Music
4.00 +8% vs. dept 65
400 level8 courses
MUS 421 · Analysis of Tonal Music
2.60 −30% vs. dept 18
MUS 422 · Analysis of Post-Tonal Music
3.51 −5% vs. dept 28
MUS 439 · Advanced Composition
3.89 +5% vs. dept 24
MUS 450 · Seminar in the History of Music
3.62 −3% vs. dept 25
MUS 451 · Senior Seminar in Ethnography of Music
3.38 −9% vs. dept 8
MUS 487 · Independent Project
3.92 +6% vs. dept 65
MUS 491 · Conducting
3.72 +0% vs. dept 5
MUS 495 · Senior Honors Project in Music
4.00 +8% vs. dept 7
500 level36 courses
MUS 500 · Proseminar In Musicology
4.00 +8% vs. dept 10
MUS 501 · Comp Skills Of Tonal Music
3.95 +6% vs. dept 6
MUS 502 · Proseminar In Tonal Analysis
3.79 +2% vs. dept 53
MUS 503 · Music 20th And 21st Centuries
4.00 +8% vs. dept 6
MUS 504 · Analysis 20th-21st Centuries
3.84 +3% vs. dept 57
MUS 505 · Foundations Of Musicianship
3.65 −2% vs. dept 75
MUS 506 · Graduate Musicianship
3.79 +2% vs. dept 15
MUS 507 · Studies In Music History
3.80 +2% vs. dept 56
MUS 509 · Performance Studies
4.00 +8% vs. dept 10
MUS 514 · Audio Engineering
3.30 −11% vs. dept 1
MUS 515 · Fundamentals Of Electronic Mus
4.00 +8% vs. dept 17
MUS 517 · Introduction To Computer Music
3.95 +6% vs. dept 17
MUS 518 · Projects In Computer Music
4.00 +8% vs. dept 2
MUS 520 · Introduction To Research & Wrt
3.70 −0% vs. dept 86
MUS 523 · Advanced Composition
4.00 +8% vs. dept 14
MUS 536 · Area Studies In Ethnomusicol
3.89 +5% vs. dept 34
MUS 537 · Research Methods In Ethnomusic
3.82 +3% vs. dept 5
MUS 538 · Pheno Appro To Music Analysis
4.00 +8% vs. dept 8
MUS 539 · Proseminar In Ethnomusicology
3.90 +5% vs. dept 6
MUS 541 · Cross-cultural Study Of Music
4.00 +8% vs. dept 3
MUS 543 · Topics In Medieval Music
4.00 +8% vs. dept 8
MUS 545 · Top Renaissance Mus
3.86 +4% vs. dept 5
MUS 555 · Topics In 20th-century Music
4.00 +8% vs. dept 1
MUS 565 · Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra
3.99 +7% vs. dept 368
MUS 566 · Camerata Singers
4.00 +8% vs. dept 1
MUS 568 · Jazz Big Band
4.00 +8% vs. dept 31
MUS 571 · Masters Instruction In Perform
3.99 +7% vs. dept 68
MUS 572 · Improvisation
4.00 +8% vs. dept 11
MUS 573 · Chamber Music
4.00 +8% vs. dept 278
MUS 575 · Master Class In Solo Repertory
3.99 +7% vs. dept 39
MUS 579 · Opera Workshop
3.99 +7% vs. dept 36
MUS 584 · Baroque Chamber Ensemble
3.99 +7% vs. dept 74
MUS 587 · Collaborative Keyboard
4.00 +8% vs. dept 27
MUS 596 · Contemporary Chamber Players
4.00 +8% vs. dept 43
MUS 597 · Jazz Chamber Ensemble
4.00 +8% vs. dept 34
MUS 599 · Independent Studies
3.95 +6% vs. dept 88
600 level3 courses
MUS 623 · Directed Study In Composition
4.00 +8% vs. dept 18
MUS 671 · Doctoral Instruction In Perfor
3.99 +8% vs. dept 498
MUS 695 · Doctoral Essay Tutorial
4.00 +8% vs. dept 3
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