Open when gep_category = HUM
Each course in the Humanities category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = MATH
Each course in the Mathematial Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = NATSCI
Each course in the Natural Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = SOCSCI
Each course in the Social Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = INTERDISC
Each course in the Interdisciplinary Perspectives category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = VPA
Each course in the Visual and Performing Arts category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Students will describe specific social, historical, and artistic contexts of European music from Antiquity to 1750, such as composition and performance opportunities, political and economic circumstances, contributions of contemporaneous literary and artistic movements, and the effects of technology and commercialism
Unit tests with essay questions, such as: "The 14th century (ars nova) was marked by a series of catastrophes in Europe that resulted in a weakening of faith and doubt in the supremacy of the Church. Identify some of these calamities and explain how this uncertainty was manifested in music by discussing the emphasis placed on secular music,the change in musical style, and the increase in secular patronage. Be sure to cite specific composers and works."
Students will identify and discuss characteristics of various genres of art music from Antiquity to 1750 by employing basic music terminology to describe simple phenomena in rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre, and form
Students will complete Listening Journals that require them to analyze specific pieces with respect to form, genre, instrumentation,harmonic and melodic structure,and other elements of musical style.
Students will develop critical listening skills that enable them to evaluate the meaning of a work based on informed listening, analysis, and preparatory reading
Students will write short essays on assigned videos in which they will discuss aspects of the cultural, historical, or artistic meaning of works
Open when gep_category = HES
Each course in the Health and Exercise Studies category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
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Open when gep_category = GLOBAL
Each course in the Global Knowledge category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to achieve objective #1 plus at least one of objectives 2, 3, and 4:
Students will explain music composed and performed in Western Europe prior to 1750 in its historical and cultural context
Students will take three unit tests with objective multiple choice and matching questions as well as essay questions such as: "What was the humanistic goal of the Florentine Camerata and what musical and dramatic techniques did its members devise to recreate ancient Greek drama?"
Please complete at least 1 of the following student objectives.
Students will compare and contrast the styles of secular vocal music of Italy and England in the second half of the 16th century in the context of national musical identities.
On tests,students will answer essay questions, such as "How are differing notions of love and duty reflected in the Italian and English madrigal?"
Open when gep_category = USDIV
Each course in the US Diversity category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to achieve at least 2 of the following
objectives:
Please complete at least 2 of the following student objectives.