The CCS program is a pioneer in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music and sound. The program exposes students to numerous disciplinary approaches without centering any one in particular. We invite students to think with us about reimagining the music PhD in the context of the changing landscape of higher education, continuing to think about the role of creative practice inand multi-modal approaches to graduate training at a public university. Our program makes space for students with a wide variety of previous educational experiences. This reflects our faculty who research and teach across multiple disciplines including anthropology, musicology and ethnomusicology, sound studies, performance studies, history, philosophy, rhetoric, composition, politics, and legal studies. Recent graduate seminars have been organized around topics such as music and memory, curating sound, gender, sexuality, and disability, ethnographic writing and positionality, the Black voice, sound and the law, opera, the critical history of American folk music, music and pleasure, and Afrofuturism. We encourage students to take PhD-level courses beyond the Music Department, participate in performance, and engage with local communities.