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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the pedagogy, processes, and challenges of teaching studio art and art history in a university setting. Topics to be covered include developing an effective syllabus and lesson plans, creating meaningful exercises, methods of presenting information, building teams, approaches to student assessment, conducting exciting critiques, student motivation, classroom management, and various theories of learning. Expertise will be gained through classroom discussion and demonstrations, research, observing practicing teachers, written exercises, making oral presentations, and in-class teaching experiences.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Studio Based Inquiry in Berlin: Research as Theory & Practice is a studio / seminar that that focuses on exploring different research methods in the visual arts though group discussion and individual research projects guided by faculty. By cultivating working relationships between German and American students and artists, we will continue to connect aspects of learning, discovery, community, global engagement, diversity, and collaboration in Berlin. This means a greater self-directed inquiry, research, collaboration and communication is expected. In addition to increased reading and writing requirements each class day, it will be important to effectively communicate in both writing (visual text) and speech what you interpret from the texts, assignments and presentations. This demands careful and well though engagement with the material and the ability to make mistakes and learn from them. Finally, the collaborative nature of a seminar style course lends itself to discovery, self-analysis (i.e. rethinking major aspects of oneself), risk, and reflection.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course examines popular music in all of its various styles. Students will study the artists and songs from current chart activity in "Billboard" and "Radio & Records" with emphasis on the Top 40/Pop Songs chart and the Hot 100 chart. The course will emphasize lyrics, melodies, and forms of hit songs along with current production techniques. Students will compare composing and performing styles of today's artists and identify links between the music and societal trends. Topics will include new technologies available to artists for delivering music to the public and for developing their careers.
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3.00 Credits
The class will trace the growth and development of commercial popular music in America from colonial times to the present. Students are expected to develop active listening habits through in class listening- examples and concert attendance. Expectations for graduate students are higher than for undergraduates due to advanced preparation by graduate students.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course will provide students with the knowledge and techniques used in songwriting. The student will learn to write chord progressions with basic harmony, write lyrics, and write melodies. A portion of the class will be used for studying the history of the American Song including Stephen Foster to the present. The class will introduce technology used in modern music production including lyric writing software like MasterWriter. Several top songwriters' works will be examined to provide insight into what made their songs successful. We will use four basic methods for songwriting and evaluate the results for each.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
The course will be providing a hands-on look into music production and an outlet for budding musicians and songwriters to whet their creative appetites. It is a requirement of the course that everyone owns a Mac laptop computer and headphones with the latest version of GarageBand installed. The class presents current techniques in record production and multitrack. The class will be divided into projects dealing with loops, layering, form, and other production techniques so that the student can use and manipulate the material as it pertains to the music he/she wants to create. The student will be able to a make full-scale music production by using GarageBand. The music business will be discussed to the extent that students need to be aware of the ever-changing facets involved in a career in contemporary music.
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3.00 Credits
Music has existed in every human society, past and present. Why has this phenomenon, considered by many to be mere entertainment, been so essential to human life? This course explores this question by examining a range of musical and artistic forms from various regions of the world, including, but not limited to South Asia, Africa, Latin America, and North America. By looking at music across several cultural contexts and including our own, we can begin to understand the numerous ways in which music not only reflects but also constitutes the self and society. Students will be required to do reading and listening assignments, participate in in-class musical demonstrations, observe performances outside of class, and conduct a final project.
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3.00 Credits
Popular music permeates the leisurely lifestyle of American youth. It is a commodity that most young people use daily and with obsessive devotion. In some cases, rock music is absorbed into the identity of a young person. Marketing campaigns that target youth are so relentless and aggressive that young people are under enormous media and social pressure to join the ranks of consumers. The goal of History of Rock and Roll is to provide students with useful, evaluative tools that will: • create informed and thoughtful consumers of current popular music • encourage efforts to seek and appreciate new styles of music that have not been thrust upon them by the media and peers • to introduce non-musicians to the art by using familiar avenues • and perhaps encourage a young artist who is in a developmental stage
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3.00 Credits
A continuation of History of Rock and Roll I. Popular music permeates the leisurely lifestyle of American youth. It is a commodity that most young people use daily and with obsessive devotion. In some cases, rock music is absorbed into the identity of a young person. Marketing campaigns that target youth are so relentless and aggressive that young people are under enormous media and social pressure to join the ranks of consumers. The goal of History of Rock and Roll is to provide students with useful, evaluative tools that will: • create informed and thoughtful consumers of current popular music • encourage efforts to seek and appreciate new styles of music that have not been thrust upon them by the media and peers • to introduce non-musicians to the art by using familiar avenues • and perhaps encourage a young artist who is in a developmental stage
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
From c1420 to the end of the sixteenth century, Florence, Italy, witnessed a remarkable synergy of music, art, and thought. With the 1436 completion of the cathedral dome, an architectural and engineering feat designed by Brunelleschi, and the rise of the Medici dynasty, Florence became the embodiment of humanistic ideals. Inhabited by such artists as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, musicians Guillaume Du Fay and Heinrich Isaac, and writers Angelo Poliziano and Niccolò Machiavelli, Florence was the Renaissance city "par excellence." Florence also witnessed its share of calamities, particularly as religious fanaticism fomented by Girolamo Savonarola and then foreign invasion ravaged the city, before another branch of the Medici family retook the city by force. In this multi-disciplinary course we will study the political, economic, artistic, and cultural forces that gave rise to Florence as a vortex of European Renaissance civilization. The course will culminate with a one-week study tour of Florence, where history will come to life. The streets of modern Florence are relatively unchanged from Renaissance times, and an abundance of art and architecture remains available to modern viewers to experience first-hand.
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