Course Announcements

This page contains current announcements from the faculty on upcoming courses.

Fall 2012

CFA MU 835: Current Trends in Scholarship

• Fall 2012
• Special Topic: East and West Revisited
• Instructor: Robert Labaree

Course Description:
The mutual shaping of identities through interactions among Christian and Muslim civilizations in Europe and the Mediterranean since the Renaissance. Recent scholarship re-examines the ceaseless conflict paradigm of east-west relations in history, religion, commerce, sexuality, the arts and media.

MU 827 Special Topics in Musicology

• Fall 2012
• Special Topic: Theories of Musical Form
• Instructor: Patrick Wood Uribe
• Course meets Tuesday, 2-5 PM (Fuller 281)

Course Description:
An exploration of theoretical approaches to musical form from 1750 to the present. These theories not only offer unexpected analytical possibilities, but also reveal the aims and preoccupations of their creators and the eras in which they lived.