MUSC 106 World Music (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
Explores the aural components of music along with the settings and significance associated with music within different cultures. Examines the impact of global influences and changing social norms on music within cultural contexts.
Course Content
A. Elements of music
B. Settings for music (e.g. historical, geographic, cultural, technological settings)
C. Significance of music within cultures
D. The impact of both forced and voluntary migration on music
E. The impact of global influences on music (e.g. tourism, urbanization, globalization of marketplace, technology)
F. The connection of music and dance, ritual, politics and identity
Student Outcomes
1. Identify aspects of timbre, intensity, rhythm, melody and harmony in music
2. Explore the influence that the settings of musical performance has within a given culture
3. Examine cultural connections and significance within musical traditions
4. Evaluate the impact of migration on music cultures.
5. Examine the impact of global influences on cultural values expressed through music.
6. Reflect on how music interacts with various aspects of daily living and identity within and across cultures.
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. Quizzes on readings, audio examples and discussions
B. Written analysis
C. In-class discussion
D. Short answer test
E. Presentations
F. Research Paper
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