Music report
ABOUT JAZZ
Course
description: An exploration of music around the world and the study of the
social import of current music around us. The course will first present several
musical examples from around the world and then the students will create a
project focusing on a case study from their own environment. This project will
involve discussing a musical micro-culture or experience from 1) a social
perspective (race, religion, language, income, gender, status, diaspora,
migration, politics, family, kinship, ritual etc.) and 2) based on its musical
elements (instruments, lyrics, scales, function, composition/improvisation,
traditions etc.).
? Course learning
outcomes – This course will help students attain the following general goals:
· Identify
important world music cultures and their repertoire
· Identify
standard compositional forms common to various world music periods and genres
· Demonstrate an
understanding of the distinctive terminology associated with world music
· Analyze
cultural trends in American society and those of other countries
· Demonstrate an
understanding of the influence of world cultures on each other as a result of
cultural or military conquest
· Demonstrate an
understanding of research systems to retrieve information in a variety of
formats
? General
Education Proficiencies – After completing this course you will have developed
the following proficiencies:
· Oral and
written communication skills –You will have had multiple experiences in
communicating ideas in writing and speaking. You will complete assignments
totaling at least 3500 words of writing.
· Critical
analysis –You will have had multiple experiences in critically and
constructively analyzing information in different areas of study.
· Information
literacy –You will have had multiple experiences in finding information in the
library, on the Internet, and in other places and in evaluating the reliability
of this information.
