MUS 1030 - Introduction to Music

Credit hours: 3

Prerequisites: Acceptable placement scores or completion of all Learning Support Competencies in Reading and Writing

Course Description:
This is a general education course designed to meet the humanities/fine arts requirement. This course provides an introduction to musical aesthetics, the elements of music, musical form, and brief surveys of music in Non-Western cultures, American popular music and European classical music.

Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to:

Identify historical periods of music by listening to musical elements inherent of that period;
Demonstrate the knowledge of comparing a new work or specific selection of music to previously learned works in a chronological time period;
Students should come away with a basic knowledge of the evolution of music, and with the aural ability to recognize specific forms, musical techniques and historical style;
The student demonstrates the ability to identify music in nonwestern cultures. Instruction will be aimed how music is reflects the diversity of the world’s social and economic systems, languages, religions, and geographical conditions and traditions;
The students will be able to draw distinctions of improvisational traditions and vocal techniques and various instrumental classifications;
The student will demonstrate the knowledge through comparative writing to clarify various music elements from one period to the previous period.