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  • CFA MU 337: Selected Topics in Music History
    Prereq: CFA MU 221/223 and 222/224. Special topics in the history of music, covering a variety of approaches, styles, and periods, from Antiquity through the present. 4 cr.
  • CFA MU 340: Musical Cultures of the World
    No prereq; open to all students. A survey of music and musical cultures from around the world, including African- and Native-American traditions, Africa, India, Japan, Indonesia, and Latin America. 3 cr.
  • CFA MU 341: Topics in World Music
    A survey of traditional and popular music traditions throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora. Emphasis is on music making within its cultural context. No technical knowledge of music is required. Prerequisite: none.
  • CFA MU 343: Popular Music and Culture
    No prereq; open to all students. Selected topics exploring the relationship between popular music and culture from American popular song and musical theatre, to worldbeat, blues, rock, Hip-hop, and techno. 3 cr.
  • CFA MU 344: Interdisciplinary Topics in Music History
    No prereq; open to all students. Wide-angled and narrowly-focused topics dealing with music's application to and interaction with other disciplines, including the broader humanities, science, politics, and technology. 3.0 credits.
  • CFA MU 350: Musical Cultures of the World
    No prereq; open to all students. A survey of music and musical cultures from around the world, including African- and Native-American traditions, Africa, India, Japan, Indonesia, and Latin America. 4 cr.
  • CFA MU 351: Topics in World Music
    A survey of traditional and popular music traditions throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora. Emphasis is on music making within its cultural context. No technical knowledge of music is required. Prerequisite: none.
  • CFA MU 353: Popular Music and Culture
    No prereq; open to all students. Selected topics exploring the relationship between popular music and culture from American popular song and musical theatre, to worldbeat, blues, rock, Hip-hop, and techno. 4 cr.
  • CFA MU 354: Interdisciplinary Topics in Music History
    No prereq; open to all students. Wide-angled and narrowly-focused topics dealing with music's application to and interaction with other disciplines, including the broader humanities, science, politics, and technology. 4.0 credits.
  • CFA MU 361: Music Education 2
    Philosophy and goals of the general music program from kindergarten through grade 9. Techniques and experiences employed to implement the development of musical concepts and skills; activities and teaching materials related to the musical development of the child.
  • CFA MU 371: Student-Teaching Practicum 1
    Pre-K-5. Supervised student teaching in grades K-5, weekly seminar, individual conferences with University supervisor. Six weeks; minimum 150 hours required. 4 cr. each semester.
  • CFA MU 372: Student-Teaching Practicum 2; 5-8
    Supervised student teaching in 5-8; weekly seminar, minimum of 150 clock hours; weekly seminar; individual conferences with University supervisor. 4 cr. each semester.
  • CFA MU 373: Pedagogy and Practicum I, II
    Teaching methods and materials for use in private and group instruction; literature concerned with leading teachers' approaches to acquiring musical skills and understanding. 2 cr. each semester.
  • CFA MU 375: Student-Teaching Practicum 3; 8-12
    Supervised student teaching in grades 8 through 12; six weeks, minimum of 150 clock hours; weekly seminar; individual conferences with University supervisor. 4 cr. each semester.
  • CFA MU 377: Intro to Conducting
    This course covers basic skills, including use of each hand, study of musical terminology, transposition, tempi, and dynamics. Students learn simple score reading and receive conducting experience. 2 cr.
  • CFA MU 394: Opera Project
    Designed to provide a basic understanding of how to prepare and perform appropriate selections from the operatic repertoire, with a dual focus on stagecraft and musical preparation. Class performance projects include recitative, staged operatic arias and opera scenes. 1 cr
  • CFA MU 397: Performance Techniques for the Singing Actor 1
    Fundamental stage techniques. Basic stage language, movement, presentation skills, and fundamentals of acting for recital and opera. No audition necessary. Some Opera Workshop participants may be asked to take Performance Techniques as a pre-requisite to casting in scenes. 2 cr, each semester.
  • CFA MU 405: Counterpoint 1
    Prereq: CFA MU 102. Analysis and writing of examples of sixteenth-century vocal styles including the motet. 2 cr.
  • CFA MU 409: Ind Study Undgr
  • CFA MU 411: Composing with Electronic Sounds and Computers 1
    This course seeks to give the students the aesthetic and technical knowledge needed to complete individual, creative work using electronic media alone or with acoustic instruments. The course will make use of computers, recording equipment, digital editing software, and sound analysis software: developing basic skills in synthesis, sampling, digital recording and live performance techniques. Listening assignments will provide an introduction to existing literature and relevant aspects of acoustic and electronic theory will be discussed. May not be taken concurrently with CFA MU 412. 2 cr course offered both Fall and Spring semesters.

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