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3.00 Credits
The Bentley College Chorus is a non-auditioned group, designed to give the student the experience of learning and performing choral music. Music representing a wide range of style, historical periods, cultural contexts, and languages is studied and performed both on and off campus.
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3.00 Credits
Concentrates on paintings, graphic arts and film as the language that creates and supports American themes. Deals with artistic expressions of American myths, political themes and cultural icons Offers visits to museums and other venues for viewing the art forms studied.
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3.00 Credits
Provides the student with a basic knowledge of the elements of music and musical forms and styles. The focus is on how these elements of music are used in the different musical forms. The correlation between music and other forms of art may also be considered.
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3.00 Credits
Covers the essential areas of Jazz, Blues, Be-bop, Fusion, Funk and related music. Provide students with a background in the evolution of Jazz styles from the 1920s to the present.
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3.00 Credits
Latin dance has many roots, roots that include the music, dances and rhythms of Europe and Africa. This course explains how these rhythms and dances found their way to Latin America and the United State and how the music and dance from Latin America blends with the music and dance of the United States. Students have the opportunity to study the music and learn some of the dances as well as hear from local artists.
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3.00 Credits
Students are introduced to basic drawing concepts and vocabulary. These basic tools are combined in a variety of ways to show the student how and why they are used. Constant referral to the work of the modern masters reinforces the direction of the student's work. Develops in students an awareness of looking and seeing. This course is designed for the student who is intimidated about drawing, who has little or no drawing experience and is befuddled by contemporary art.
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4.00 Credits
The astronomer's role has changed drastically during the past two millenia, from analyzing the motions of the planets, to theorizing about Earth's place in the universe, to measuring the distances and sizes of the Sun, Moon, and planets, to directly observing and analyzing these objects with telescopes and space probes. Using a variety of approaches, such as class discussions, demonstrations, video presentations, daytime labs, and night observatory exercises, we will examine the instruments and techniques used to measure various astronomical characteristics, and apply them in fully surveying the Sun, planets, moons, asteroids, and comets in our solar system. Students will gain insight on the role of modern astronomy, through telescopes and NASA, in both the scientific world and in areas of business and the economy. The Earth's atmosphere, interior, climactic, and the environmental issues facing our planet will be covered, as well as how studying other planets provides key insights.
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4.00 Credits
While most students are somewhat familiar with the inhabitants of the solar system: planets, moons, and comets, very little attention is given to the subject of the stars in the pre-collegiate curriculum. This course introduces the student to a subject that makes up more than two thirds of the effort of the observational and the theoretical astronomer. It stresses not descriptive detail, but the "detective" aspect of the science: the how, why and what for, and the application of various discoveries to extract further understanding. In addition, astronomy beyond the solar system provides the scientist with a laboratory for energetic phenomena that cannot be reproduced on earth and can tell us about the ultimate nature of matter both at the subatomic and at the cosmic levels.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): 200-level AST or PHY Beginning with the idea that the universe is immutable, we came to find increasingly that the universe is not only continually changing, but that great violence lurks behind the seemingly gentle fa ade. This course takes us from violent changes on earth: earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, impacts, to rapid motion and extremely high temperatures, to strong magnetic storms, and solar flares, stellar explosions, galactic bursts and even to a universe that was born in a violent explosion (the Big Bang.) Parts of this course are of interest to the environmentalist and the consumer.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level AST or PHY This course examines our successful interplanetary space missions to measure the astronomical characteristics, establish the history and evolution, and unravel the mysteries of the planets in our solar system. A key theme in these investigations is a detailed study of the Earth, in order to perform "comparative planetology" with the characteristics of other planets. Various themes in this comparison include temperature and environment, atmosphere and greenhouse effects, Terrestrial evolution and sustainability, magnetic fields, and planetary mass consequences. The most recent NASA missions to Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, will be covered in great detail, as we will focus on their technologies, flight paths, scientific goals and results, and key business aspects relating to their funding, construction, and operation. We will also discuss the theories of formation of Terrestrial and Jovian planetary systems from the solar nebula.
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