The second-year curriculum consists of elective courses determined by faculty interest; upcoming offerings include "Analyzing American Musicals," "Cycles," "East Asia in Western Art Music," "Large Forms," "Music in Time," "Polyphonies," "Questioning Genius," "Scales, Sets, Series, and Spectra," "Theory and Analysis of Post-2000 Pop Music," and "Writing in Tonal Style." Teaching responsibilities include music theory courses in a recently redesigned two-year core curriculum, aural skills, upper-division seminars assigned according to faculty interests, and courses targeting music majors and non-majors from the college of arts and sciences.