MUSC 100 Introduction to Rock and Roll (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly MUSIC 100
Course Description
Rock and roll is studied as a language of music from a listener’s perspective. Listening skills are developed to examine specific music concepts. Some social, biographical, and historical data covered.
Course Content
A. Music fundamentals and aural analysis (e.g., instrumentation, rhythm, harmony, melody, tempo, meter);
B. Musical antecedents to rock and roll;
C. Rock and roll in each decade: 1950-to the present;
D. Social issues, attitudes, and technological developments relevant to each decade;
E. Rock personalities, and;
F. Nonmusical components of rock and roll (e.g., theatricality, lyrics, fashion).
Student Outcomes
1. Identify basic differences between specific rock and roll styles.
2. Understand social, historical and economic development of American culture and its impact on Rock music.
3. Aurally analyze musical style characteristics of rock music.
4. Analyze nonmusical expressive features of rock music performances.
5. Identify the historic and biographical contributions of significant figures from rock history.
6. Apply understanding of stylistic trends through rock history to current music trends and potential future directions of rock and roll.
7. Describe how the development of rock and roll is the product of intercultural engagement.
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.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
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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