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0.50 - 4.00 Credits
Restrictions apply as to who may take private music lessons for credit. See Private Music Lesson Policy on page 48.
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3.00 Credits
The content and direction of this course is determined largely by the interests of those enrolled. Alone and together, we explore a variety of unconventional approaches to composition, helping each other diversify as we go. Possible avenues include multitrack recording techniques, alternative intonation systems and composing for dance, theatre and film. Knowledge of conventional music theory and notation and skill on particular instruments is welcome, but not required.
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3.00 Credits
The Capstone Passage is the accumulation of the work and process of the Naropa graduate. A final and slightly more formal interview between the student, department chair and a chosen Music Department faculty assesses the growth of the student over the course of his or her time at Naropa, the execution of final work, and offers guidance and support for the student's next life adventure.
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1.00 Credits
Senior Project represents the fruition of a student's work at Naropa and affords students the opportunity to successfully demonstrate the learning objectives of the Music program. Students independently design and execute a performance, recording or other creative project that incorporates vital elements of musicianship and creativity acquired in their training at Naropa. Elements include selecting, arranging or composing the works to be presented; assembling and rehearsing a performance ensemble; lighting and sound design; publicity and other aspects of performance; recording and/or scholarship. This course is geared specifically toward offering students an opportunity to present their creative vision and to provide students with a benchmark in their development as musicians in the world beyond the university. Open to Music majors only.
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3.00 Credits
The Special Topics Seminar investigates specific applications of theories and methods of music not offered in other courses. Specific topics are announced the semester this course is offered. The seminar is open to advanced undergraduate students.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Mohandas Gandhi treated life as an indivisible whole. He regarded the personal and the public, the religious and the political as fundamentally interrelated aspects of his existence. This course examines the interplay between the life of social activism and the political thought of Gandhi. It explores a series of personal and social experiments he conducted to make self and society. His perspectives on religion, freedom, nonviolence and women are among the issues we closely examine. Wherever possible, we seek appropriate lessons from his life for our time.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the role of the imagination in nonviolent social change initiatives. We read and discuss imaginative representations of social conflicts, noticing what happens in us and through us, individually and collectively. Moving back and forth between reading and writing, we investigate how texts speak to us and how to "speak back" through writing. Readings range from Chinua Achebe, James Baldwin and Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Ursula K. LeGuin, Rebecca Solnit and Alice Walker. While turning our attention to the politics of the imagination at home and far away, we create a collaborative, participatory learning community.
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3.00 Credits
The twentieth century witnessed both horrendous violence as well as major experiments in peacemaking. Along the way, our understanding of the causes of war, violence, and the peaceful resolution of conflicts has matured. This course explores the sources of violence and the ways of creating enduring peace in individual as well as social relations.
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3.00 Credits
Black women played a critical role in the centuries-long African American resistance movement for freedom and equality. They demonstrated phenomenal organizational abilities and provided crucial behind-the-scenes support and leadership. Women were the midwives to the American revolution of the middle years of the twentieth century. This course examines the contribution of African American women in gaining fundamental human rights for persons of African descent. The lives of some of the major women participants such as Ella Baker, Septima Clark, Jo Ann Gibson Robinson and Fannie Lou Hamer will be the pathway to our exploration of the significance of their role.
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3.00 Credits
From the earliest times the people of African descent in this country have resisted oppression in a myriad of ways. In their relentless struggle for freedom, African Americans have broadened and deepened the meaning of democracy. In pressing the nation to be more open and just, they have contributed richly to the corpus of modern political and social thought. Their contribution to the expansion of democracy is a major piece of U.S. history. This course explores the meaning of African American thought through the primary writings of thinker-activists such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, Howard Thurman, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis and Andrew Young.
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