ICIT began in 2007 as a new MFA emphasis that was created to merge and replace the MFA in Composition and Technology and the MFA in Jazz Studies. We designed ICIT to offer a new kind of program we felt was lacking in the field, given that many graduate degrees were defined by binaries such as classical/jazz and western/non-western, and also separated technology into its own specialization, conceptions that did not reflect contemporary music practices outside of academia, where integrating different traditions and methods has long been common. We envisioned ICIT as a novel form of graduate music study that will serve diverse students and prepare them to contribute to multiple, overlapping fields. In addition to the current faculty, others who have shaped the program’s evolution by serving as core ICIT faculty include Professor Rae Linda Brown (at UCI until 2008); Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus Kei Akagi; Professor Nicole Mitchell (at UCI from 2011-2019); Professor Lukas Ligeti (at UCI from 2015-2020); Professor Emeritus Christopher Dobrian, and Professor Emeritus Mari Kimura.