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 in the course recognize and recall important aspects of the history of computer music (from 1946 (prior to the beginning of computer music) through the creation of the first computer music pieces in the late 1950s to the present day, including significant works that illustrate crucial aspects of the tradition.
The midterm exam includes a listening section in which students must identify a work upon hearing it, name the composer, the year of composition, and describe the musically significant aspects of the work not obvious to a casual listener. For example, it is insufficient to say that a piece is scored for piano and tape, the student must identify and describe salient aesthetic and technical information, such as the mapping techniques or Markov processes used to produce a particular type of sound or sound structure. Students also write an essay summarizing the history of computer music as part of the midterm.
Students analyze various works in terms of compositional techniques, structure, and style.
Homework assignments include listening assignments. Students report their analyses to the class and then are tested on their knowledge in the quizzes and midterm. The final piece also demonstrates their ability to employ or vary techniques or structures analyzed in class.
Students in the course create at least one 4-5 minute computer music composition based on synthesis and/or algorithmic techniques together with aesthetic principles learned in the course.
The success of the student com position(s) is measured by the aesthetic effectiveness of the work as a whole, plus the ability to effectively use digital synthesis techniques, such as frequency modulation, subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis, waveshaping, granular synthesis, etc., and/or compositional algorithms, such as various stochastic procedures, Markov processes, 1/f-noise, sorting, and mapping, as well as other non-computer-dependent compositional techniques.
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:
Please complete at least 1 of the following student objectives.
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.