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.
Course Content
A. Elements of a music culture (ideas about music, activities, repertories, material culture of music)
B. Americas: we examine Native America, Black America, Latin America
C. African and Middle Eastern cultures including Ewe, Mande, and Arab cultures
D. Asian cultures: India, China, Indonesia
E. Central European cultures
F. Practices for discovering and documenting 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.
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.
Multiculturalism: Graduates will demonstrate knowledge of diverse ideas, cultures, and experiences, and develop the ability to examine their own attitudes and assumptions in order to understand and work with others who differ from themselves.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
A. Listening quizzes
B. Written analysis
C. Small group work
D. In-class discussion
E. Short answer test
F. Written quizzes
G. Small group presentations
H. Oral presentations
I. Multiple-choice objective examination
J. Listening quizzes
K. Essay Test
L. Research Paper
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