2024-2025 Course List

This course will explore the importance of creative expression within one¿s own personal journey. Through interviews, personal assessments, and class-led exploration of today¿s job market, we¿ll discuss how important an ¿artistic attitude¿ can be for modern business and each student's personal success.

This course will provide an overview of various music careers and will examine the attitudes and behaviors of successful professional musicians.

The Seminar in Music Careers is a broad overview of the exciting opportunities available to graduates interested in pursuing various careers within the music space. Sectors discussed will include the record industry, publishing and licensing, live entertainment, hospitality, education, non-profit organizations, and more. Class discussions will focus on balancing the types of jobs available while working with students to understand how to match their interests and abilities to appropriate opportunities. Additionally, students will also develop their own professional digital profiles to prepare for various career paths. Personal websites, social-media, and profiles on major job-sharing platforms like LinkedIn will be utilized.

Interview for admission to the music major. See your advisor for details.Grading Method

Prepare for, and participate in, a musical tour. Destinations will vary with each offering, and may include international experiences. Prior to travel, class sessions will deal with the music and culture of the destination. There will be additional travel expenses associated with the class. This class may be repeated for credit.

Goal Areas:

GE-06

Part III of a four semester sequence in Music Theory focusing on written music notation skills.

Part IV of a four semester sequence in Music Theory focusing on written music notation skills.

Part III of the four semester sequence focusing on sight-singing and ear training.

Part IV of the four semester sequence focusing on sight-singing and ear training.

Introduction to the basic concepts of jazz pedagogy/theory and improvisation used in teaching and playing jazz and contemporary music.Fall, Spring

A continuation of MUSC 119 Class Piano 1. Mastery of skills (technique, scales and chord progressions, solo playing, and ensemble playing) are demonstrated over the semester.

Prerequisites:

MUSC 119

This assessment will determine basic proficiency in playing functional and classical piano.

Technology applications for the K-12 music educator.

Instrumental music education majors only. Emphasis on pedagogical methods and techniques of individual instruments.

Instrumental music education majors only. Emphasis on pedagogical methods and techniques of individual instruments.

The basics of establishing and maintaining a guitar ensemble or program in a school situation.

Instrumental music education majors only. Emphasis on pedagogical methods and techniques of individual instruments.

Instrumental music education majors only. Emphasis on pedagogical methods and techniques of individual instruments.

A study of techniques, styles and trends with an emphasis on show design (music arranging, drill writing, and administration) as it relates to the contemporary marching ensemble. A combination of lecture and laboratory instruction will be utilized. Prereq: Consent of instructor.

This course is a prerequisite for Choral Musicianship (MUS 401/MUS 402) and Instrumental Musicianship (MUS 411/MUS 412). The course will develop basic conducting technique, acquaint the student with appropriate terminology, develop interpretive skills and gesture vocabulary.

Prior to admission to 300- and 400-level classes, students are assessed by a cohort of music faculty. The assessment includes a review of academic progress, and a presentation or performance before the music faculty. For more information, please see your academic advisor.

This writing-intensive course focuses on the repertory of Western Music from prehistory through 1800. It examines the ways that culture and patronage impacted music developments, and focuses on techniques appropriate to research, including finding, evaluating, and using sources.

Prerequisites:

ENG 101, MUSC 131

This writing-intensive course focuses on the repertory of Western Music from 1800 to the present. It examines the ways that culture and patronage impacted music developments, and focuses on techniques appropriate to research, including finding, evaluating, and using sources.

Prerequisites:

ENG 101, MUS 131

Musical styles of western culture prior to 1800. There is a particular focus on developing the skills for teaching the content in K-12 teaching.

Prerequisites:

MUS 231, MUS 232, ENG 101

Musical styles of western culture after 1800. There is a particular focus on developing the skills for teaching the content in K-12 teaching.

Prerequisites:

MUS 231, MUS 232, ENG 101