Catch up on your graduation requirements!

Peabody is offering the following online courses this summer. You can register for them through SIS, as you would register for any class. Summer Session runs June 21 to August 7.

Undergraduate Courses

Building a Brand and Portfolio

Course Number: PY.123.311
Professor: Dr. Zane Forshee
Credits: 2

Building a Brand and Portfolio is a two-credit course which focuses on career development training. Students will develop a digital portfolio, including a website, supporting media, artist bio, and resume. The course also covers key professional skills including networking, negotiating, applying for jobs, and financial management.

Introduction to Psychology

Course Number: PY.260.261
Professor: Tracy Sanna
Credits: 3

This is an introductory course in the field of psychology. It includes such topics as biological and social bases of behavior, human development, personality, learning theory, and research methods. Special emphasis will be placed on how the field of psychology relates to the students’ lives. Students will also have the opportunity to create their own hypothesis about human behavior and use their understanding of psychological principles from the course to test their hypotheses. Open to undergraduates only. 

Graduate Courses

Building a Brand and Portfolio

Course Number: PY.123.611
Professor: Dr. Zane Forshee
Credits: 2

Building a Brand and Portfolio is a two-credit course which focuses on career development training. Students will develop a digital portfolio, including a website, supporting media, artist bio, and resume. The course also covers key professional skills including networking, negotiating, applying for jobs, and financial management.

Music in the Multimedia Franchise

Course Number: PY.610.639
Professor: Dr. Paul Sommerfeld
Credits: 3

Music defines our media experiences. Musical themes can likewise go beyond their original audiovisual framework to operate as musical-cultural texts. This online, asynchronous course uses music as a tool to investigate musical branding and the creation of meaning in the media we consume every day. Through close viewings and listenings of films, television episodes, video games, commercials, and other media, this course will explore the meaning(s) these media construct and acquire as both they and their music are re-used and re-purposed in multimedia franchises that expand their content into myriads of installments and platforms.

Why We Get Chills

Course Number: PY.710.614
Professor: Dr. Jenine Brown
Credits: 3
Course Meetings: TTh 9:30 am- 12:00 pm, during weeks 2-5

This graduate theory seminar consults literature in the field of music cognition to explore how it may inform music analysis, which in turn has implications for both performer and listener.

Note for International Students

Please note that, depending on the country you are in for the summer and its government policies, some course material may not be available since external links may be blocked. This should not preclude you from registering for the course, but know that you may run into occasional issues.

Tuition Fees

Since these are summer courses, they will cost the standard per credit tuition fee. Current academic year per-credit fees are listed here under “Supplementary Study.” You do not need to pay this in advance; you will be billed as usual.

Enrollment Policy

Registration Opens: April 11
Recommended Register-By Date: June 13
Last Day to Register: June 23
Last Day to Drop with Delete from Transcript: July 1
Last Day to Withdraw with Grade: July 15

Refund Policy

100% – prior to June 21
90% – June 21- 24
50% – June 25- July 1
25% – July 2- 8
0% – on or after July 9