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Graduate Courses

Important Dates

  • August 5: Fall term registration opens
  • September 9, 2026: Classes start
  • December 9, 2026: Classes end 
  • Early December: Winter term registration opens
  • January 4, 2027: Classes start
  • April 9, 2027: Classes end

Fall-Winter 2026-27

Graduate courses offered by each of our three departments are listed here, one department per tab. Click on the highlighted course number to view a course outline (these will be posted as received from course instructors closer to the start of term). Note that classroom locations will be available on the Brightspace course site once you've registered.

Music Research & Composition (MRC) Courses

Term Course Number Course Title Instructor Time
Fall-Winter

9518
9558

 Composition (MMus)
Composition I (PhD)

O. Daniel/

P. Frehner

 TBA
Fall-Winter 9533/9633 Electro-Acoustic Music Composition (MMus/PhD) P. Frehner W 10:30-12:00
Fall 9512 Advanced Orchestration TBA M 2:30-5:30
Fall 9526 Schenkerian Analysis: Small Forms P. Franck W 9:30-12:30
Fall 9725 Introduction to Music Research E. Goehring TU 1:30-4:30
Fall 9735 Special Topics in Musicology: Composing Feminisms in North America E. Ansari TH 1:30-4:30
Fall 9740 Research Creation: Studies in Songwriting R. Toft TH 9:30-12:30
Winter 9537 Renaissance Music: Josquin J. Grier TH 1:30-4:30
Winter 9540 Classical Music: Mozart and the Enlightened Stage E. Goehring TU 1:30-4:30
Winter 9556 Studies in Contemporary Repertoire O. Daniel

M 1:30-3:30 & 

TU 11:30-12:30
Winter 9739 Cognitive Musicology J. De Souza TH 9:30-12:30

 

Music Education Courses

Term Course Number Course Title Instructor Time
Fall

9531

 Empirical & Qualitative Research in Music Education TBA online 
Fall 9570 Advanced Instrumental Conducting C. Richardson M 10:30-12:30 & TH 9:30-10:30
Fall 9781 Disability Studies in Music Education a. bell W 6:30-9:30 pm
Fall 9640 Theories of Music Education (PhD) K. Watson TU 3:30-6:30
Fall 9652 Quantitative Research in Music Education (PhD) K. Watson TH 2:30-5:30
Winter 9587 Sociology and Music Education R. Wright TH 1:30-4:30

Music Performance Courses

Term Course Number Course Title Instructor Time
Fall-Winter 9506 Collaborative Musicianship: Piano Duos L. Kinton TH 10:30-12:00
Fall-Winter 9507 Contemporary Music Studio                - audition required P. Frehner M 1:30-3:00
Fall-Winter 9510 Vocal Pedagogy T. Chiles F 9:30-11:00
Fall-Winter 9515 Vocal Repertory with Piano TBA TU 9:30-12:30
Fall-Winter 9516 Seminar in Instrumental Conducting I C. Richardson TBA
Fall-Winter 9546 Opera Workshop - audition required S. Luti

M & TU 5:30-9;00

F 4:00-9:00
Fall-Winter 9549 Clarinet Literature & Pedagogy J. Starling TH 1:30-3:00
Fall-Winter 9566/9867 Chamber Music - audition required T. Wiebe/J. Starling (coordinators) TBA
Fall-Winter 9567 Art of Vocal Coaching S. Luti TU 1:30-3:00
Fall-Winter 9568 Early Music Studio - audition required TBA M & W 3:30-5:30
Fall-Winter 9575/9876 Seminar in Choral Conducting II (MMus)/DMA Choral Seminar III M. Ramsay M 1:30-3:00
Fall-Winter 9596 Lyric Diction I T. Wieczorek TU 1:30-3:00
Fall-Winter 9597 Lyric Diction II TBA W 1:30-3:00
Fall-Winter 9754 Percussion Ensemble R. Burrows TBA
Fall-Winter 9756 Salsa Band - audition required D. Jiron TU 1:30-3:30
Fall-Winter 9757 Pop Band - audition required TBA W 11:30-1:30
Fall-Winter 9821 Doctoral Vocal Pedagogy T. Wieczorek M 9:30-11:00
Fall-Winter 9822 Doctoral Piano Pedagogy TBA M 11:00-12:30
Fall-Winter 9834 Doctoral Vocal Literature: Opera T. Wieczorek TU 9:30-11:00
Fall 9504/9841 Acting for Singers (MMus)/DMA Acting for Singers TBA

TH 9:30-12:30

& F 11:30-1:30
Fall 9509/9585 Applied Music I/III (MMus lessons) various various
Fall 9564 Chamber Orchestra: Don Giovanni       -audition required S. Luti TBA
Fall 9593 Performance Research Seminar I TBA W 9:30-12:30
Fall  9595 Performance Research Seminar III TBA W 9:30-12:30
Fall 9702 Special Topics: Graduate Studio Pedagogy A. Hodgson

TU 9:30-11:00

TH 9:30-10:30
Fall  9721 The 21st Century Musician TBA TH 12:30-2:30   & one hour TBD
Fall 9801/9803/ 9805/9807 DMA Lessons I/III/VVII various various
Fall 9811/9813/ 9815 DMA Vocal Coaching I/III/V TBA TBA
Fall 9892-001 Doctoral Orchestral Literature: Clarinet J. Starling TBA
Fall 9892-002 Doctoral Orchestral Literature: Saxophone TBA TBA
Winter 9565 Chamber Orchestra: Suor Angelica/ Gianni Schicchi  - audition required S. Luti TBA
Winter 9584/9786 Applied Music II/IV (MMus lessons) various various
Winter 9594 Performance Research Seminar II TBA W 9:30-12:30

Winter

 9802/9804/ 9806/9808 DMA Lessons II/IV/VI/VIII various various
Winter 9812/9814 /9816 Doctoral Vocal Coaching II/IV/VI various TBA
Winter 9826-001 Doctoral Woodwind Pedagogy: Clarinet J. Starling TBA
Winter 9826-002 Doctoral Woodwind Pedagogy: Saxophone TBA TBA
Winter 9892 Doctoral Orchestral Literature: Strings T. Wiebe TBA

 

Additional Course Registration Notes

As noted in the Music Performance course timetable, some performance courses require auditions. For full details about audition requirements, please check each ensemble on our Ensembles and Performance Groups webpage.

Students cannot register themselves in these courses. Instead, once the audition results are known, the ensemble directors or course instructors will send the Graduate Program Assistant a class list and the Graduate Program Assistant will register the students. 

Graduate students may enrol in courses outside of their program with permission of the instructor and the student's home program. The Request Form must be completed and submitted to the home program for enrolment.

The student must declare an intention to audit a graduate course by the enrolment deadline for the term, using the Graduate Course Audit Form. The student must have the instructor's signed approval to audit the course, as well as approval from the Supervisor or Program Advisor and Associate Dean (Graduate Studies). An Audit requires regular attendance and any other obligations as stated by the course instructor in the Comments/Expectations section of the form. If these requirements are not met, the audit will be removed from the student’s record at the instructor's request.

After the enrolment deadline, a student may not make a change from auditing a course to taking it for credit, or vice versa, within a given term. A student may, in a subsequent term, enroll in a given course for credit that has previously been audited.

Graduate courses delivered online may not be audited without special permission from the program.

Graduate students may take undergraduate courses without additional charge only if needed for their degree requirements and with the approval of the Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) and the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Graduate students taking undergraduate courses must follow the undergraduate regulations, as stipulated in the undergraduate calendar under 'add/drop deadlines'.

To register in an undergraduate course, you must use the Graduate Student Taking Undergraduate Course Form. Undergraduate courses, or combined courses in which undergraduate students predominate must be less than one-third of the student's total course requirement for the graduate degree. Graduate students may not take an undergraduate course at a Western-Affiliated University College (with the exception of programs whose home unit is an Affiliated University College).