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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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(MUCO) Musicology (706) |
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MUCO 110 - Introduction to Music in Western Culture 3 Credit Hours
The study of style periods of Western European art music and related issues of cultural and social history. Develops listening skills and ability to respond to music articulately. Writing-emphasis course.
Satisfies General Education Requirement: (AH)
Credit Restriction: Students who receive a grade of C or better in 200 may not receive credit for 110.
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MUCO 115 - Music in the United States 3 Credit Hours
Explores musical traditions of the United States. Writing-emphasis course.
Satisfies General Education Requirement: (AH)
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MUCO 120 - History of Rock 3 Credit Hours
Study and appreciation of rock music, its origins in blues and rock and roll, and its development and cultural dimensions to the present. Writing-emphasis course.
Satisfies General Education Requirement: (AH)
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MUCO 125 - Jazz in American Culture 3 Credit Hours
The historical study of jazz as part of American culture, including its styles, key performers, and musical practices. Writing-emphasis course.
Satisfies General Education Requirement: (AH)
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MUCO 210 - History of Western Music, Ancient to the Baroque 3 Credit Hours
Historical study of musical styles, practices, theories, and context of European art music to 1750. Develops skills in independent research, critical thinking, and expository writing. Writing-emphasis course.
Satisfies General Education Requirement: (AH) (WC)
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 110 or 115 or 120 or 125.
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MUCO 220 - History of Western Music, Classical to the Present 3 Credit Hours
Historical study of musical styles, practices, theories, and context of European art music from 1750 to present. Develops skills in independent research, critical thinking, and expository writing. Writing-emphasis course.
Satisfies General Education Requirement: (AH)
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 110 or 115 or 120 or 125.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): Music Theory 110.
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MUCO 290 - Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World 3 Credit Hours
An introduction to music within expressive culture and as a part of peoples’ daily lives around the world. Focuses on music as sound, its role in conceptions of identity, migration and global social processes, personal and community memory, and politics and power.
Satisfies General Education Requirement: (AH)
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MUCO 330 - Music, Gender, and Sexuality 3 Credit Hours
Interdisciplinary study of music as a gendered practice in a variety of cultural contexts, including western European art music, American popular music, and others. Explores gendered roles, constructions of gender, and expressions of sexuality in musical composition, performance, participation, and social and political institutions using historical, anthropological, feminist, and queer studies interpretations.
(Same as Women, Gender, and Sexuality 330.)
Satisfies General Education Requirement: (WC)
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MUCO 350 - History of Jazz 3 Credit Hours
Origin, development, and styles of jazz music and its exponents. Cultivation of special listening techniques. Writing-emphasis course.
Registration Restriction(s): Bachelor of Music music major; studio music and jazz concentration.
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MUCO 380 - Music in World Cultures 3 Credit Hours
Examines music from an ethnomusicological perspective focusing on musical performance and the interrelationships of music, culture, and daily life. The course surveys music from a variety of cultures through a series of case studies.
Satisfies General Education Requirement: (WC)
(RE) Prerequisite(s): 210 and 220.
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MUCO 400 - Music History Survey 3 Credit Hours
Condensed survey of the history of western European musical traditions from the medieval era to the present, including socio-political events that shape musical practice. Explores musical genres and styles, as well as key themes in musicological research.
Grading Restriction: A, B, C, No Credit grading only.
Credit Restriction: Does not count toward graduate credit.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 110 or 115 or 120 or 125.
Comment(s): Recommended as a review course for graduate students.
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MUCO 410 - Special Topics in Musicology 3 Credit Hours
Topics vary, drawn from historical, cultural, analytical, or musicological issues related to a musical genre, style, repertory, composer, or other.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
Recommended Background: 100-level musicology course.
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MUCO 411 - Music of Appalachia 3 Credit Hours
Explores the diverse, complex and frequently misunderstood music and culture of the Appalachian region. Topics include balladry, early fiddle and banjo styles, religious music, bluegrass, early country music, and Americana.
(Same as American Studies 411.)
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MUCO 412 - Gender, Performance Art, and the Avant Garde 3 Credit Hours
Explores interdisciplinary 20th-century phenomena of performance and performativity, engaging with sexuality, feminisms, social constructions of gender, and identifications and presentations of the body. Consideration of ways in which performative expressions employ and encompass aspects of music, voice, and sound, drama, spoken word, film, visual arts, movement, and dance.
(Same as Women, Gender, and Sexuality 412.)
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MUCO 413 - Music and the African Diaspora 3 Credit Hours
Introduces music and related cultural expressions of the African diaspora connecting Africa, the Americas (especially North America) and Europe. Introduces interdisciplinary social theories, evaluates critical debates, and explores several case studies of African and African American music and performance.
(Same as Africana Studies 413.)
Comment(s): Students who have taken 310 cannot receive credit for 413.
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MUCO 414 - Music and Media 3 Credit Hours
Explores the role of music and sound as they intersect with visual and aural media. Topics may include gramophone and radio, film, television, computer technologies, and others. Focus on changing perceptions about music through new media from the perspectives of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, media studies, cinema studies, and allied disciplines.
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MUCO 415 - Introduction to Music Therapy 1-3 Credit Hours
Overview of the field of Music Therapy, as an allied health profession, and in the context of the history of the profession. Examines various diagnoses within populations served by music therapists and details how music therapy is utilized within each population. Addresses current research in music therapy as a means to objectively support the field of music therapy and its evidence-based practices.
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MUCO 460 - Music Aesthetics 3 Credit Hours
Nature of music and musical experience, sense perception and emotions, music, and the role of artist in society. Aesthetic viewpoint of individuals and historical eras through selected writings. Writing-emphasis course.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 110 or 115 or 120 or 125.
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MUCO 480 - Music in Christian Worship 3 Credit Hours
Hymnody, liturgies, and liturgical music.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 110 or 115 or 120 or 125.
Recommended Background: 100-level musicology course.
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MUCO 493 - Independent Study 1-15 Credit Hours
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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