MUSC 173 String Ensemble (1 credit)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities with Performance; General Transfer Elective
Formerly MUSIC 173A
Prerequisite Instructor permission required.
Course Description
Small instrument ensemble for students who assmble a group. A coach will be proviced. Outside performances encouraged in connection with larger Pierce College ensembles. Course is repeatable for additional credit up to 3 times in the degree.
Course Content
Course content is based on the string ensemble literature chosen for quarterly performance(s). Literature to be performed is determined at the beginning of each quarter and depends, in part, on the interests and collective performance ability of the students involved.
Student Outcomes
1. At the community college level, perform selected music at designated quarterly concerts.
2. At the community college level and on music selected for quarterly concerts, demonstrate appropriate ability in the areas of timbre, rhythmic accuracy, intonation, expression, style, and balance.
3. Work effectively as a part of a team.
4. Demonstrate a professional attitude towards practice, self-motivation, and self-evaluation as it pertains to the appropriate performance of music selected for each quarterly concert.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20
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