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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Students will identify and examine the concepts and connections among the various disciplines within the humanities such as: philosophy, art, music, theatre, language, and literature. They will do so through a series of readings, observations, and museum/theatre visits and apply basic principles of aesthetics and interpretation.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to help the student develop facility with English when it is not his or her native language. It is especially designed to provide students with insight into interpersonal relations in various cultural settings. Course content will include communication theory, interpersonal skills in both verbal and non-verbal communication, and reinforcement of oral language skills. Students will survey the sound system for Standard English, learn listening skills, and self-corrections for pronunciation and grammar.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to help students who are not native speakers of English develop their oral communication skills in a group setting. Integrating language, content and culture, students will carry out a variety of tasks requiring them to process and produce academic language. Students will become familiar with effective styles of group leadership and participation. Other topics include listening in groups, decision making, problem solving, agenda setting, conflict resolution, research methods, and presentation techniques.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to develop an understanding and appreciation of various forms of music. Emphasis will be placed on the elements of musical organization, expression, and style. Students will gain understanding by listening to selections and by discussing significant features of musical compositions from the Middle Ages to the present time.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to allow education students to explore the range of music fundamentals and techniques as they relate to rhythm, pitch and vocal expressiveness. Students will be introduced to basic skills of percussion, the recorder, singing, and reading music. They will continually grow in this ability to listen to, respond to, and create music with understanding, skill, and sensitivity; and to present lessons to children that allow them to have those experiences as well.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an overview of the music of Latin America according to several cultural/geographical areas, including Rio de la Plata, the Andean Region, Brazil, the Caribbean and Mexico. Latin American musical developments from the past and present will be studied to show the individual characteristics as well as the common elements within the various styles. Students will be required to attend one live concert at minimal or no cost.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to develop an understanding and appreciation of jazz as a folk art. The music and characteristics of various styles, including Dixieland, blues, ragtime, boogie woogie, hop, cool, funky, eclectic, and jazz-fusion rock, will be studied through recordings and classroom performances. Emphasis will be on the stylistic characteristics of jazz piano, jazz/blues vocalists, the rhythm section, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, trumpet, and trombone. The course will involve outside reading and listening, as well as performances and lecture/demonstrations.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for beginning musicians and those who would like to learn to read, write, and understand the basic structure of music. They will study both the sight and sound of different tonal and modal scales. Diatonic intervals, primary chords, and key signatures also will be covered. Students will learn to write simple melodies in staff notation from melodic dictation. In addition, this course will emphasize reading music using treble and bass clefs, singing, and playing simple melodic and harmonic lines, as well as writing simple melodies and primary chords using staff notation.
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3.00 Credits
(3lab) This course will introduce students to music audio recording using industry-standard software, such as ProTools. Topics covered will include digital recording, mixing and editing on an introductory level. Students need not have any prior experience.
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3.00 Credits
Emphasis is on the preparation for public performance of contemporary choral music for small vocal ensemble with two to four voices on each part. The repertory will include arrangements in a variety of contemporary vocal idioms: gospel, musical theatre, jazz. Performances of original works will also be encouraged. Enrollment will be limited to 20 students. A student may take Contemporary Vocal Ensemble five sessions for credit, or audit without credit.
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