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 articulate the historical development of digital audio technology, discuss the role of digital audio technology in shaping musical culture over the past three decades, and examine, discuss, and re-create the aesthetic values of contemporary music by composing songs using DAWs.
During class, the instructor and students will lead discussions on reading assignments related to the historical development and cultural assimilation and use of digital audio technology. Students will discuss in groups and individually how issues of taste and beauty (aesthetics) in the DAW-generated songs they currently listen to shape the songs they compose during class and for homework.
Students will identify and discuss the validity of common and accepted compositional features in digital music composition, such as song forms, sonic textures, rhythmic patterns, editing, chord structures, and text underlay. NOTE: Students’ analysis of accepted compositional features within works of art strengthens their ability to interpret and make critical judgments about other works of art (i.e., do other works of art observe the same common and accepted features of composition that I am studying and applying to my own art?).
Through works composed by the instructor, those heard in popular culture, and student’s own projects, students will explain how common and accepted compositional features are used to provide coherence and unity to musical compositions and apply these techniques to their own works in lab activities, homework assignments, and individual projects.
Students will create audio recordings of their own compositions using digital and MIDI inputs of hardware interfaces.
Students will produce several independent recording and editing projects using their newly composed songs on DAW software. Independent projects will entail the writing, recording, and digital manipulation of their own compositions.
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.