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MUSC 106 World Music (5 credits)



Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
Examines select cultures from different areas around the world. Explores music concepts and engages social issues including: diversity, cultural differences and societal motivations for writing, performing and preserving music.

Student Outcomes
1. Identify methodologies for looking at the music of other cultures (ethnomusicology).
2. Examine traditional cultures in a changing world.
3. Compare and contrast the music of other cultures before and after the influence of Western popular music.
4. Examine the different kinds of musical instruments and teaching methods from around the world.
5. Give examples of the nonmusical features of cultures that influence and inform musical traditions.
6. Through an aural analysis identify the different features of music from around the world.
7. Enumerate cultural differences and similarities between other cultures and our own in order to provoke further understanding of ethnicity, and diversity.
8. Relate the methodologies of ethnomusicology to our own musical world.



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