布朗博士 音乐学和民族音乐学课程允许学生在丰富的跨学科环境中从多种角度学习任何类型的音乐。该计划的独特灵活的课程使学生可以从部门的研究生研讨会中自由取样，也鼓励他们探索其他学术单位的课程。学生通过民族音乐学和历史学的核心研讨会开始学习音乐研究的方法和材料，同时创建适合他们的学术和专业需求的个性化量身定制的进修课程。这可能意味着在文本分析，人种志，史学，批判理论以及科学技术研究方面发展流利程度，所有这些都属于该计划包含的音乐和声音研究方法。
Brown's Ph.D. program in Musicology and Ethnomusicology allows students to study music of any kind from several perspectives, within a richly interdisciplinary environment. 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.