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Course Catalog 2010-2011 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Oberlin College Courses Offered in 2010-11 (and planned offerings in future years)

 
  

  • MLIT 216 - Piano Literature


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    MLIT 215 is an in-depth examination of piano literature from the acceptance of the fortepiano in late 18th century Vienna to the key role of the piano as a symbol of Romantic efflorescence in the mid-1840’s. MLIT 216 is a continuation of the study of piano literature from the invention of the “recital” to the piano’s multiple meanings in the 20th century. Enrollment Limit: 26.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: S. Margolis
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: MHST 101 and MUTH 231 (can be taken concurrently) or consent of the instructor
  

  • MLIT 220 - The Lied


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Lied performance, with emphasis on language, style, and the partnership between voice and keyboard. Some consideration of historical background and poetic sources, as well as outside listening and reading. For singers and pianists. Offered in alternate years. This course may count as an accompanying or an ensemble credit for pianists.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: P. Highfill
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: One semester of German. (May be waived for pianists.)
  

  • MLIT 221 - The Mélodie


    Next Offered: [2001-2012]
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    The performance of French art song, with emphasis upon language, style, and the partnership between voice and keyboard. Some consideration of historical background and poetic sources, as well as outside listening and reading. For singers and pianists. Offered in alternate years. This course may count as an accompanying or an ensemble credit for pianists.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: P. Highfill
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: A semester of French (may be waived for pianists).
  

  • MLIT 300 - Survey of Orchestral and Choral Literature


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A one-year course. Study of stylistic elements, orchestration, vocal writing, formal structure, problem analysis, and historical perspective in a large section of major works. Regular listening assignments.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MLIT 300 is prerequisite to MLIT 301.
    Open only to conducting majors.
    Enrollment Limit: 15.
  

  • MLIT 301 - Survey of Orchestral and Choral Literature


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A one-year course. Study of stylistic elements, orchestration, vocal writing, formal structure, problem analysis, and historical perspective in a large section of major works. Regular listening assignments.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MLIT 300 is prerequisite to MLIT 301.
    Open only to conducting majors.
    Enrollment Limit: 15.


  

  • MUED 100 - The Art of Teaching Music


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    An overview of music teaching opportunities with focus on the kinds of knowledge and skill necessary for effective teaching and ways to include teaching in a professional career as a musician. Open to non-music education majors only.
    Instructor: P. Bennett
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Preference given to Conservatory students.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 30.
  

  • MUED 101 - Introduction to Music Education


    Next Offered: TBD
    Semester Offered: TBD
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    An overview of the total K-12 music program in a variety of school settings. Demonstration and discussion of relevant approaches to the teaching of choral, general, and instrumental music at all levels. Includes observations. Exploration of career opportunities in music education and related fields of outreach programs.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 30.
  

  • MUED 102 - Practicum in School Music Experiences


    Next Offered: TBD
    Semester Offered: TBD
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    An introduction to the teacher’s role in instructional settings. Includes observations of music and other school classes and student participation as an instructional aide. Class sessions include techniques for observing classroom behavior, sequencing lessons, and planning music instruction. Three hours plus travel time in one or two blocks must be free during school hours each week.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUED 101 (Introduction to Music Education) or MUED 100 (Art of Teaching Music).
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 15.
  

  • MUED 103 - String Pedagogy


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 to 2 Hours
    Investigation of a wide range of pedagogical approaches and materials toward comprehensive understanding of principles involved in teaching stringed instruments. Required for students wanting to participate as teachers in the string preparatory program. Significant paper required for second credit.
    Instructor: J. Erwin
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: APST 273 or concurrent enrollment, or status as a string performance major. Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 15.
  

  • MUED 201 - Music for Exceptional Learners


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Designed to acquaint students with issues (social, legal, and pedagogical) surrounding the education of students exhibiting mental, physical, intellectual, and/or emotional disabilities, as well as students who are gifted and talented. Focus will be on the development of teaching strategies for the mainstreamed music classroom, the presentation of peer-teaching lessons during which the needs of exceptional students are accommodated, and the observation of exceptional students taught in Lorain County settings.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUED 100 or MUED 101.

    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 30.
  

  • MUED 206 - Choral Methods


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    An overview of children’s vocal development including analysis of common vocal problems, study of pedagogical techniques in group settings, evaluation of vocal and choral literature and texts, construction of vocal interviews, and guidelines for performance at the elementary and secondary levels. Laboratory/observation experience required.
    Instructor: J. Kerchner
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: MUED 102, APST 260 or 262.

    Consent of instructor required.

    Enrollment Limit: 12.
  

  • MUED 300 - Teaching Music to Adolescents and Lab


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    The teaching and organization of music classes in the middle and senior high school. Includes consideration of performance and non-performance classes, and implications of the National Standards for the Arts. One-hour laboratory experience required each week throughout the semester. All music education majors develop functional playing skills on guitar; a proficiency test must be passed.
    Instructor: J. Kerchner
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: APST 260.

    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 30.
  

  • MUED 301 - Teaching Music to Children


    Next Offered: [TBD]
    Semester Offered: TBD
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Principles and practices for teaching music to children aged 3-11. Emphasis on planning, teaching and evaluating general music lessons at different levels based upon the National Standards for the Arts and utilizing techniques/materials from a variety of current approaches. Corresponding laboratory experience is MUED 303 (Preschool Music Lab, Tuesdays, 5:30-8:00, one credit hour), required for vocal emphasis music education majors. Participation in a minimum of five Music Lab Sessions required for instrumental emphasis music education majors.
    Instructor: P. Bennett
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUED 102 (Practicum).

    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 20.
  

  • MUED 303 - Preschool Music Lab


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Laboratory setting for MUED 301. Music teaching experiences with 3-5 year old children utilizing a variety of current approaches for individual exploratory music play, small/large group settings, and parental involvement. Weekly participation required for vocal emphasis music education majors.
    Instructor: P. Bennett
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUED 301 or concurrent enrollment.

    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 20.
  

  • MUED 304 - Instrumental Music Programs


    Next Offered: TBD
    Semester Offered: TBD
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    The techniques involved in the organization, administration, and preparation of a comprehensive instrumental music program at the secondary level. Includes study of methods, materials, and repertoire used to teach orchestra, concert band, jazz ensemble, and marching band. Includes marching band performance practices, drill maneuvers, development and charting of shows, and its role in the school music program and the community.
    Instructor: J. Knight
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUED 300 or concurrent enrollment.
    Enrollment Limit: 30.
  

  • MUED 305 - Band Repertoire


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Primarily for music education majors with instrumental emphasis. Designed to emphasize the continued development and refinement of baton and rehearsal technique, score preparation and interpretation through an in-depth study of band repertoire.
    Instructor: J. Knight
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: APST 261(Instrumental Conducting) and MUED 304 (Instrumental Music Programs).
    Enrollment Limit: 12.
  

  • MUED 400 - Student Teaching and Seminar


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 to 16 Hours
    This course comprises daily work in a school setting, a weekly seminar taught by a faculty member and a conference with the assigned supervisor for the student in this teaching experience. Full-time experience includes a three-week Professional Orientation period.
    Instructor: P. Bennett
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Vocal Emphasis-APST 262; MUED 302; Instrumental Emphasis-APST 261; 272/3, 274/5, 276/7, 235; MUED 304. All-APST 260; MUED 101, 102, 300, 301; completion of secondary-study requirement, aural-skills requirement, GPA of 3.0 in music courses and good academic standing.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 15.
  

  • MUED 403 - Community Music Field Experience


    Next Offered: TBD
    Semester Offered: TBD
    Credits (Range): 1 to 3 Hours
    Placement in a community music program to be approved by the music education division director.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: MUED 100 or 101, MUED 300 or 301, APST 260, nine credits in Community Music Minor.
    Credit would be reflected in two hours at the community music site each week for one credit, four hours for two credits and six hours per week for the three credit load.
  

  • MUED 500 - Student Teaching and Seminar


    Next Offered: [TBD]
    Semester Offered: TBD
    Credits (Range): 6 to 16 Hours
    Graduate-level experience for MME and MMT candidates only. Growth in ability to analyze and solve learning/teaching problems expected. Completion of a graduate student teaching study is required. This course comprises daily work in a school setting, a weekly seminar taught by a faculty member and a conference with the assigned supervisor for the student in this teaching experience.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUED 400.

    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5.
  

  • MUED 501 - Apprentice Supervision


    Next Offered: [TBD]
    Semester Offered: TBD
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Principles and techniques of effective music teaching supervision. Includes readings, observations of taped and live teaching segments, guided supervision of early field-based experiences, and conferences with appropriate faculty member.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Fifth-year status in the MME or MMT program. Note: May be repeated for credit. Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5.
  

  • MUED 502 - Review of Research in Music Teaching


    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Introduction to research paradigms used in music education research; reviews and critiques (oral and written) of research studies both as an overview of extant music education studies and in relation to research interests of the class members; discussions of implications for pedagogy and vice versa.  Includes modest data collection and analysis papers. Consent of instructor required.  Enrollment limit 15.
    Instructor: J. Kerchner
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
  

  • MUED 503 - Graduate Project


    Next Offered: [TBD]
    Semester Offered: TBD
    Credits (Range): 5 Hours
    To be chosen from areas designated in information available in the Music Education Graduate Handbook.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5.
  

  • MUED 504 - Studies in Music Education


    Next Offered: [TBD]
    Semester Offered: TBD
    Credits (Range): 1 to 2 Hours
    Specialized study of particular aspects of music education, possibly including attendance of classes in one or more different courses and culminating in a synthesis appropriate in form to the nature of the study. Students electing this course should be prepared to discuss significant aspects of its content as part of the Comprehensive Final Examination.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 6.
  

  • MUED 505 - Music Teaching in Practice


    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    An introduction to the teacher’s role in instructional settings and the kinds of knowledge and skills necessary for effective teaching. Includes music field experience in public schools in which students observe and participate as instructional aides. Class sessions focus on demonstrations of verbal and nonverbal teacher behaviors; techniques for observing, recording, assessing, and managing classroom behaviors; pathways for understanding learner responses; and models for planning music instruction. Open to Conservatory undergraduate and MMT students.  Enrollment limit 15.
    Instructor: P. Bennett
  

  • MUED 506 - Choral Methods


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, Module 1
    Credits (Range): 1-2 Hours
    An overview of children’s vocal development (PK-12) including analysis of common vocal problems, study of pedagogical techniques in group settings, evaluation of vocal and choral literature and texts, construction of vocal interviews, and guidelines for performance at the elementary and secondary levels. Advanced conducting technique, accompaniment (keyboard), and aural skills will also be developed.  Enrollment limit 15.
    Instructor: J. Kerchner
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Entry in MMT Program

    Consent of instructor required.

    Note: Instrumental emphasis = 1 credit hour; vocal emphasis = 2 credit hours
  

  • MUED 507 - Instrumental Methods for Vocalists


    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    The course is a comprehensive string and woodwind/ brass/ percussion methodology and pedagogy class for Music Education majors with a vocal emphasis.  Students will learn the pedagogical theoretical foundations and playing techniques for string and one other instrumental area (woodwinds or brass or percussion). Students will study and conduct repertoire that can be used with learners at various grade levels in elementary and secondary schools. Administrative matters relating to school instrumental program will be explored.   Enrollment limit 15.
    Instructor: J. Erwin, J. Knight
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Entry in MMT Program

    Consent of instructor required.
  

  • MUED 508 - Instrumental Methods I


    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    This course will be a comprehensive instrumental methodology/pedagogy class in which students will learn the pedagogical theoretical foundations and playing techniques for all of the band and orchestral instruments. Students will study and conduct repertoire that can be used with learners at various grade-levels in the elementary and secondary schools. Administrative matters relating to school instrumental program will be explored.  Enrollment limit 15.
    Instructor: J. Knight, J. Erwin
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Entry in MMT Program

    Consent of instructor required.
  

  • MUED 509 - Instrumental Methods II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    This course continues the comprehensive study of instrumental techniques and pedagogies started in MUED 508.  Students will continue to focus on instrumental conducting and rehearsal strategies, applying skills and knowledge gained in MUED 508. Students will have field experience in a public school instrumental teaching laboratory. The basics of instrumental program administration will also be explored. Prerequisite:  MUED 508.   Enrollment limit 15.
    Instructor: J. Erwin, J. Knight
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
  

  • MUED 510 - Teaching Music to Adolescents


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    This course includes topics and issues related to teaching and the organization of music classes in the middle and senior high school. Includes consideration of performance and non-performance classes, and implications of the National Standards for the Arts and research-based pedagogy. This course will also include reading, analysis, and discussion of scholarly pedagogical and professional research articles related to topics presented in class. One-hour laboratory experience required each week throughout the module. All music education majors develop functional playing skills on guitar; a proficiency test must be passed. Enrollment limit 15.
    Instructor: J. Kerchner
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required. 
  

  • MUED 511 - Teaching Music to Children


    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Principles and practices for teaching music to children aged 3-11. Emphasis on planning, teaching and evaluating general music lessons at different levels based upon the National Standards in the Arts and utilizing techniques/materials from a variety of current approaches including Kodály and Orff Pedagogy, Corresponding laboratory experience is MusicPlay, the Preschool Music Lab, Tuesdays, 55-7 pm. This course will also include reading, analysis, and discussion of scholarly pedagogical and professional research articles related to topics presented in class.  Enrollment limit 15.
    Instructor: P. Bennett
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
  

  • MUED 512 - Technology for Teachers


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    An overview of technology appropriate for professional and pedagogical purposes.  Topics include:  designing PowerPoint presentations, websites, using synthesizers and sequencers in instruction, using iMovie and iDVD in instruction, reviewing computer software to assist classroom instruction, use of web cameras, designing electronic portfolios for assessment, and student composing in general music and rehearsal classes.   Enrollment limit 15.
    Instructor: T. Lopez, Prude
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
  

  • MUED 513 - Student Teaching and Seminar I


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 4
    This course comprises daily, full-time experiences in a public-school setting, a seminar taught by a music education faculty member, and a weekly conference with the assigned supervisor.  The course requires writing a professional orientation report and a resume and reading scholarly professional articles.  Prerequisites:  MUED 506, MUED 510.  Enrollment limit 15
    Instructor: P. Bennett
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
  

  • MUED 514 - Student Teaching and Seminar II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    This course comprises daily, full-time experiences in a public-school setting, a weekly seminar taught by a music education faculty member, and a weekly conference with the assigned supervisor.  The experience requires a written assessment plan and a case study of exceptional learners, and developing a professional portfolio.  Prerequisites:  MUED 506, MUED 510.  Enrollment limit 15.
    Instructor: P. Bennett
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
  

  • MUED 515 - Preschool Music Lab


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Laboratory setting for MUED 511.  Music teaching experiences with 3-5-year-old children utilizing a variety of current approaches for individual exploratory music play, small/large group settings, and parental involvement.  Weekly participation required for vocal emphasis MMT students.  Prerequisite:  MUED 511 or concurrent enrollment.  Enrollment limit 15.
    Instructor: P. Bennett
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
  

  • MUED 516 - Reading in the Content Area


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    The purpose of this course is to address methods of reading instruction, reading strategies, use of materials, and utilization of assessment/evaluation procedures to support students as they develop skills needed to access music content area material.  Topics include:  the necessity of developing reading skills; importance of prior knowledge, interest, engagement, and developmental match in teaching and learning informational text; factors to determine textbook difficulty; and exposing students to a variety of texts such as textbooks, trade books, and electronic texts. Enrollment limit 15.  
    Instructor: J. Kerchner
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
  

  • MUED 517 - Psychology of Musical Behaviors


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    This course will explore the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of music learners PK-adulthood.  Topics for discussion will include:  accommodating instruction for exceptional learners; music perception and cognition; (music) psychology and learning theories and their applications to teaching and learning; developmental characteristics of music learners; music and the brain; multiple intelligences; creativity; musical skill acquisition; and methods of assessing achievement, aptitude, and ability.   Enrollment limit 15.  
    Instructor: J. Kerchner
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
  

  • MUED 518 - Community Music Internship and Seminar


    Semester Offered: Winter Term
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    This course is required for the MMT degree and is suitable for all Conservatory students who wish to gain an introduction to the foundations of music teaching.  This course includes experiences observing and student teaching in community music school settings; seminars taught by Music Education faculty and guest community music personnel; discussions of teaching strategies for special-needs and typically developing students; and information about administrative issues surrounding community music organization, development, and maintenance.  This course will also include reading, analysis, and discussion of scholarly articles related to topics presented in class.  Enrollment limit 15.
    Instructor: J. Erwin
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
  

  • MUED 519 - Principles of Education


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3
    Foundations of education with emphasis on examination of current educational issues in a historical context and identification of underlying philosophical assumptions.
    Instructor: P. Bennett
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Entry in MMT Program
  

  • MUED 520 - Final Professional Portfolio Project


    Semester Offered: Summer
    Credits (Range): 2
    In this course, MMT students will compile documentation that demonstrates theeir musical, scholarly, and pedagogical proficiency in compliance with the Ohio Dept. of education and the MMT assessment standards. Further, this course is a capstone project that inclues (1) preparing two term papers (one research, on a community music project) based on the student’s experiences in the MMT courses prior to the second summer of study and (2) compiling video clips for a DVD that illustrates students’ practice teaching in a variety of teaching settings.

     

     
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: J. Kerchner
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Completion of MUED 518, MUED 502, music education methods courses, instructor approval.
  

  • MUTH 101 - Aural Skills I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Development of aural understanding through singing, conducting, improvisation, and listening. The melodic line, simple two-line combinations, rhythmic phrases, scales and triads, tonic predominant and dominant arpeggiation, diatonic intervals, simple and compound meters, treble and bass clefs, cadences, phrases, sentences and periods.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Placement by Aural Skills/Sight-Singing Test 1.
    Co-requisite: MUTH 130 or 131.
    Preference given to students for whom aural skills is a required subject.

    Enrollment Limit: 15.
  

  • MUTH 102 - Aural Skills II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    A continuation of MUTH 101. Arpeggiation of all diatonic triads, the leading-tone seventh chord, and the Neopolitan and augmented-sixth chords; major-minor mode mixture; tonicization of or modulation to V in major and III in minor, diatonic sequences, more elaborate divisions of the beat, polyrhythm, small binary forms, introduction to the alto clef.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUTH 101 or placement by Aural Skills/Sight-Singing Test 1/2.
    Co-requisite: MUTH 132.
    Preference given to students for whom aural skills is a required subject.

    Enrollment Limit: 15.
  

  • MUTH 130 - Intensive Music Theory I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Intensive review of the rudiments of music including: clefs, notation, meters and their signatures; key signatures, scales, intervals, triads, and seventh chords. Tonic, dominant, leading-tone, subdominant, and supertonic triads; the dominant-seventh chords (including inversions); and the cadential six-four chord. Introduction to phrase and period structure. Meets four days per week.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Placement by Music Theory Placement Test 1.
    Co-requisite: MUTH 101.
    Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Preference given to students for whom music theory is a required subject .
  

  • MUTH 131 - Music Theory I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Tonic, dominant, leading-tone, subdominant, submediant, and supertonic triads; the dominant-seventh chord (including inversions); the leading-tone diminished seventh chord and the cadential six-four chord. Introduction to phrase and period structure. Analytical and writing skills are introduced and developed.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Placement by Music Theory Placement Test 1.
    Co-requisite: MUTH 101.
    Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Preference given to students for whom music theory is a required subject.
  

  • MUTH 132 - Music Theory II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Continuation of MUTH 130 or 131, including remaining diatonic triads, supertonic leading-tone and subdominant seventh chords, tonicization of V in major and minor and of III in minor; applied chords; modal mixture, Neopolitan and augmented-sixth chords, special six-three and six-four chord usages; small binary and ternary forms. Analytical and  writing skills are developed.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUTH 130 or 131 or a passing score on Music Theory Placement Test 2.
    Co-requisite: MUTH 102.
    Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Preference given to students for whom music theory is a required subject .
  

  • MUTH 201 - Aural Skills III


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    A continuation of MUTH 102. Imitation, diatonic modulation to all closely related keys, chromatic modulation, aural analysis of short pieces, more complex meters, the tenor clef.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUTH 102 or placement by Aural Skills/Sight-Singing Test 3.
    Co-requisite: MUTH 231.
    Preference given to students for whom aural skills is a required subject .
    Enrollment Limit: 15.
  

  • MUTH 202 - Aural Skills IV


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    A continuation of MUTH 201. Chromaticism, trichords and atonal melodies, quintuplets and septuplets, unequal beats, all chromatic simple and compound intervals from any degree of the scale, aural analysis of longer pieces, improvisation emphasizing memorization and sense of form, score reading with at least two simultaneous C clefs, score memorization.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUTH 201 or placement by Aural Skills/Sight-Singing Test 3.
    Co-requisite: MUTH 232.
    Preference given to student for whom aural skills is a required subject.
    Enrollment Limit: 15.
  

  • MUTH 211 - Eurhythmics


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First and Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 hour
    A study of music based on the principles of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze emphasizing the development, by means of physical motion, of sensitivity to rhythm, melody, phrasing, form, etc. Other emphases include the internalization of the rhythmic sense and the development of precision in ensemble work and of physical coordination as it applies to the student’s performing medium.
    Instructor: H. Henke
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Preference given to Conservatory students and College music majors
    Enrollment Limit: 12
  

  • MUTH 231 - Music Theory III


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Continuation of MUTH 132, including diatonic and chromatic modulation; introduction to sonata form. Analytical and writing skills are developed.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUTH 132 or a passing score on Music Theory Placement Test 3.
    Co-requisite: MUTH 201.
    Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Preference given to students for whom music theory is a required subject.
  

  • MUTH 232 - Music Theory IV


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Continuation of MUTH 231 emphasizing chromatic harmony and techniques of 20th-century music.
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUTH 231, or a passing score on Music Theory Placement Test 4.
    Co-requisite: MUTH 202.
    Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Preference given to students for whom music theory is a required subject.
  

  • MUTH 317 - Music and Embodied Cognition


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours

    This course explores the relationship between musical experience and conceptualization. Starting from basic embodied experience, this course explores how music generates affect -how and why different works and styles have different feels-and how the experience and feel of music motivate and ground traditional and novel concepts. The approach is interdisciplinary, with readings drawn from: perception and cognition (general and musical); ancient and modern philosophy and music theory; human development (ontogenetic and phylogenetic); cognitive neuroscience; cognitive linguistics; and musicology, including gender issues pertaining to music. Written coursework includes 1) responses to readings, 2) brief analyses of works and styles, and 3) a term paper.
    Instructor: A. Cox

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consent. 

    Enrollment limit: 20.
  

  • MUTH 325 - Counterpoint


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    A species approach to strict counterpoint, designed to acquaint students with fundamental voice-leading techniques of music from the 16th through the 19th century. The course explores the foundations of counterpoint, through the five species; students study contrapuntal techniques through two- and three-part written exercises, class discussion, and two-part dictation. Students examine passages from the literature to ascertain the relationship of strict counterpoint to free composition.
    Instructor: J. Hartt
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUTH 232
    Consent of instructor required
    Enrollment Limit: 15
  

  • MUTH 326 - The Music of Ravel


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Ravel’s music is inspired both by that of his contemporaries and by such diverse influences as gamelan music, Russian octatonicism, Basque folk music, orientalism, jazz, and the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. His harmonic language, though overall tonal at least in his early works, combines non-tonal elements—such as symmetrical chords drawn from nondiatonic collections—with complex dissonant diatonic harmonies. While his forms are creative adaptations of older models from the Baroque and Classical periods, his sophisticated motivic and thematic ideas and their transformations owe much to the spirit of the early twentieth century.

    This course traces the various sources on which Ravel drew for inspiration and explores why, despite the diversity of his models, Ravel always sounds unmistakably like Ravel. Our textbook will be The Cambridge Companion to Ravel, ed. Deborah Mawer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
    Instructor: S. Heinzelmann
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Must have passed MUTH 232.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
  

  • MUTH 340 - Form and Analysis


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A course developing techniques of analysis that apply to standard tonal forms. Structural principles underlying the binary, ternary, rondo and sonata forms (including the concerto) are studied in detail.
    Instructor: J. Lubben, A. Cadwallader
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUTH 232.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Not open to students who have taken MUTH 343 (String Quartet) or 345 (Mozart).
  

  • MUTH 342 - Rhythmic Theory


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    This course introduces several topics in contemporary rhythmic theory. Emphasis is placed on analytical skills applicable to performance. The first module focuses on metric hierarchy in tonal music. Topics include the distinction between grouping and meter, hypermeter, metric dissonance/resolution, and the relation between metric and tonal hierarchies. The second module covers contemporary and world-music repertoires, and focuses on non-hierarchical metric structures. Topics include irregular pulses, stable polymeters, phase shifts, mensural theories, and simple mathematical models.
    Instructor: J. Lubben
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUTH 232.
    Consent of the instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 15.
  

  • MUTH 343 - The String Quartet


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A course in 18th and early 19th century musical form, as manifested in the string quartets of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. All standard forms except concerto are studied, including binary, ternary, minuet and trio, sonata and rondo; however, the emphasis is upon sonata-based compositions. Class participation and five short analytical papers are required.
    Instructor: W. Darcy
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: MUTH 232.
    Consent of the instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Not open to students who have taken MUTH 340 (Form and Analysis) or 345 (Mozart).
  

  • MUTH 361 - The Visible in Music


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3
    Attribute: CNDP
    Sound and image are commonly assumed to be discrete concepts, reflecting a fundamental separation of the eye and the ear. Yet visual images play a significant role in musical experience:  visual methods of transcription, recording, and analysis have been a feature of musical practice since the invention of notation; musicians frequently collaborate with practitioners in the visual arts in multimedia, opera, film, and theater; and even in “purely musical” works, visual imagery plays a fundamental role in the perception of musical meaning.
     
    This course surveys some of the ways that music and visuality interact.  The course is divided into three main segments: In the first segment we will evaluate the reputed abstractness of musical sound in light of theories of hybridity and purity.  In the second segment we will analyze selected musical works, ranging from C.P.E. Bach to Stravinsky; here our analyses will be informed by a combination of music theories and relevant documents from visual culture.  The third segment of the course focuses on some hybrid forms of “eye music” in the 20th century.  Students will complete weekly reading, listening, and analysis assignments; three short model-composition exercises; and an individual research project.
    Instructor: R. Leydon
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: MUTH 232, MUTH 202
    Enrollment Limite: 18
  

  • MUTH 373 - Experimental Music and the Avant Garde


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3
    The course explores musical practices that have been understood as “avant garde” from the late 19th century to the present. Specific musical techniques and the broader aesthetic projects of a variety of innovatiive musical styles are investigated through close study of recordings, scores and readings. Some topics include: late works of Beethoven and Liszt (explored in terms of their latent modernity), music of Satie and his circle, works based on unusual tuning and temperament systems (including Harry Partch and LaMonte Young), selected works by Cage, Varese, Nancarrow, Ligeti, Crumb, Gubaidulina, Saariaho, as well as post-war serialism, minimalism, acoustic ecology (including music by Pauline Oliveros and R. Murray Schafer), and “avant-pop”.
    Instructor: R. Leydon
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: MUTH 232 and MUTH 202.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Consent of instructor required.
  

  • MUTH 410 - Senior Project in Theory: Reading


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Extensive readings in theoretical literature under the supervision of a project supervisor.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Consent from Division Director required for those with junior status.
    Enrollment Limit: Open only to Music Theory majors with senior or junior status.
  

  • MUTH 411 - Senior Project in Theory: Thesis


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A major analysis project carried out under the supervision of a project supervisor.
    Instructor: Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUTH 410.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Approval of continuation in the Music Theory major from the Division Director is also required.
    Enrollment Limit: Open only to Music Theory majors .
  

  • MUTH 415 - Analysis and Performance


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
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    The course focuses on the analysis and performance of tonal and non-tonal music, paying particular attention to the ways in which analysis informs interpretation and performance.  Class participation (with opportunities for in-class performance) and several analytical papers are required; writing is a crucial element of the course.
    Instructor: B. Alegant
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 16.
  

  • MUTH 455 - The Music of Mahler


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    This course focuses upon selected works of Gustav Mahler: early piano Lieder, the song cycle Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, and the first four symphonies. These compositions are subjected to close analytical scrutiny. Students will learn how to come to grips with the complex tonal and formal issues underlying these works. Particular attention will be given to Mahler’s use of rotational form, teleological genesis, fantasy projection, and structural deformations such as the breakthrough and the off-tonic sonata.
    Instructor: W. Darcy
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: MUTH 232. Class participation and four analytical papers are required. Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 20.
  

  • NSCI 201 - The Brain: An Introduction to Neuroscience


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    An introductory course in neuroscience that familiarizes students with concepts and information central to work in the neurosciences. Students will learn the basics of brain structure and function at molecular, cellular and systems levels. This foundation will be used to explore a number of behavioral and applied topics.
    Enrollment Limit: 85
    Instructor: M. Braford Jr, K. Caldwell, T. Paine, B. Woodside
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: BIOL 100 or 118, or at least sophomore standing, or consent of instructor. Notes: Neuroscience and Psychology majors given priority. Students cannot receive credit for both NSCI 201 and NSCI 204. Neuroscience majors should take the accompanying laboratory course (NSCI 211).
  

  • NSCI 211 - Neuroscience Laboratory


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 hours
    Attribute: 2NS
    This laboratory exposes students to a variety of research techniques employed by neuroscientists: neuroanatomical procedures for staining and examining brain tissue; physiological procedures for recording the electrical activity of nerve cells; as well as commonly used techniques used to explore brain-behavior relationships (lesions, electrical and chemical stimulation). Some labs use computer simulations.
    Enrollment Limit: 16
    Instructor: K. Caldwell, S. Lempka
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes, see below for information on obtaining consent.
    Prerequisites & Notes
    NOTE: Obtain consent by logging onto Blackboard.  Select Academic Departments Folder at right side of screen.  Select Neuroscience.  Click on “211 Consent” on left side of screen and complete form. Once you have submitted the form and if the instructor consents you into the course, you will be notified by email. You must then register in PRESTO.

    Prerequisite: Previous or current enrollment in NSCI 201 or NSCI 204. Notes: P/NP grading. Neuroscience and Psychology majors given priority.
  

  • NSCI 301 - Fundamentals of Animal Behavior


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    The evolution of and mechanisms underlying animal behavior will be examined in a broad array of topics, including orientation and migration, communication, mating systems, and social behavior. The course will integrate, as appropriate, across a variety of perspectives including the development of behavior, neuroethology, and behavioral ecology.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: C. McCormick
    Prerequisites & Notes
    NSCI 201 or 204, or FYSP 130, FYSP 133 or FYSP 137, or BIO 100 or BIO 118, or BIO 605.
  

  • NSCI 319 - Neurophysiology: Neurons to Networks to Cognition


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS, QP-H
    Our brains allow us to perform extraordinarily complicated functions. Neurons both individually and in neural circuits make these functions possible. We will examine how neurons receive, integrate and transmit information and how groups of neurons produce both simple and complex behaviors. Students will analyze and discuss relevant portions of the recent scientific literature.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: B. Woodside
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: NSCI 201 or NSCI 204, or consent of instructor.
  

  • NSCI 320 - Neuroanatomy


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    A comprehensive analysis of the organization of vertebrate nervous systems is approached from a structural perspective with emphasis on the human central nervous system. Principles of organization are stressed.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: M. Braford Jr
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: NSCI 201 or NSCI 204, or consent of instructor.
  

  • NSCI 321 - Studies in Neuronal Function


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 hours
    Attribute: 2NS
    Students will investigate how neurons communicate and interact. The first four to six weeks in the laboratory will familiarize the student with methods used to investigate the actions of living neurons and with the design of experiments. The remainder of the semester will focus on the design, performance, and analysis of an original experiment. Students may need to schedule additional laboratory time outside of class to complete their independent experiment.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: M. Loose
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: NSCI 211 and either junior/senior standing, or previous or concurrent enrollment in NSCI 319.
  

  • NSCI 324 - Laboratory in Neuroanatomy


    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 hour
    Attribute: 1NS
    This lab introduces students to neuroanatomical and neurohistological methods and techniques. Both the gross and fine microscopic anatomy of the nervous system are studied.
    Enrollment Limit: 16
    Instructor: M. Braford Jr
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Previous or current enrollment in NSCI 320.
  

  • NSCI 325 - Neuropharmacology


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    This principals of synaptic transmission and signal transduction are reviewed to better understand the ways in which drugs act in the central nervous system and how drugs influence behavior. A neural systems approach, rather than a pharmacological approach to drugs, is emphasized. Topics such as addiction, drugs and mental illness, drug effects on learning, sleep, pain, and weight control will be covered.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: T. Paine
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: NSCI 201 or 204 or consent of the instructor. Note: Neuroscience and Psychology majors given priority.
  

  • NSCI 327 - Neuropharmacology Laboratory


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 hour
    Attribute: 1NS
    This laboratory is designed to introduce students to procedures used to explore the actions of drugs on the nervous system. The lab focuses on biochemical, cellular and behavioral approaches for understanding drug action. Students will gain experience not only with these relevant techniques, but also with experimental design and critical analysis of pharmacological data.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: T. Paine
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite & Notes: Previous or current enrollment in NSCI 325.
  

  • NSCI 331 - Hormones, Brain and Behavior


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    Hormones have an impact on just about everything we are and do, from our personalities and moods to our growth, fluid regulation, and reproductive behavior. This class explores what hormones are and how they act to alter bodies and behavior. This field of study is sometimes called endocrinology/neuroendocrinology.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: J. Thornton
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: NSCI 201 or NSCI 204, or consent of the instructor.
  

  • NSCI 332 - Neuroendocrine Research Methods


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 hours
    Attribute: 2NS, WR
    This laboratory will introduce a number of the principles and basic techniques used to study how hormones interact with the brain. Also, we will use the study of hormones to learn more about how to design and run scientific experiments. Some experiments will require participation outside of scheduled laboratory meetings.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: J. Thornton
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Previous or current enrollment in NSCI 331.
  

  • NSCI 333 - Techniques in Neuroendocrinology


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: 1 NS
    This course will explore principles and basic techniques currently used in neuroendocrinology research.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: J. Thornton
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Previous or current enrollment in NSCI 331.
  

  • NSCI 339 - Developmental Neurobiology


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 NS
    This course examines the cellular and molecular mechanisms that are used to form the nervous system. Topics such as neurogenesis, pattern formation, axonal guidance, cell lineage, cell migration, cell death, and cognitive development are covered. In addition to text readings, students will read and present findings from recent studies in developmental neurobiology.
    Instructor: L. Bianchi
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: NSCI 201 or NSCI 204 or consent of instructor.
  

  • NSCI 341 - Laboratory in Developmental Neurobiology


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: 1 NS
    In this lab, students will have the opportunity to use a variety of cellular and molecular biological protocols to explore mechanisms of neural development. Labs will include such topics as: in vitro analysis of tropic and trophic cues, assessment of cell lineage, analysis of apoptosis, and the examination of transgenic mice. Periodically, students will be required to do work outside the scheduled lab period. 
    Instructor: J. Thornton
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Current or previous enrollment in NSCI 339.
    Note:  P/NP grading.
  

  • NSCI 343 - Neurobiology of Learning and Memory


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    The principles of neural plasticity – how nervous systems change structurally in response to experience – and how memories are accessed and used will be examined in a variety of systems. Topics may include: historical perspectives on memory, habituation and sensitization in aplysia, neural network models, Pavlovian conditioning, Hebbian plasticity, long-term potentiation/depression (LTP or LTD), the developing or aging brain, hippocampal function, methods in assessing learning, cortical re-mapping with experience, REM sleep and learning.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: B. Woodside
    Prerequisites & Notes
    NSCI 201 or 204 or consent of the instructor. Neuroscience and Psychology majors given priority.
  

  • NSCI 344 - Neurophysiology of Learning and Memory


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, first and second module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: 1 NS
    In this course you will learn select neurophysiological techniques to explore how neurons communicate and interact to generate behavior. A particular focus will be on the electrical events associated with learning and memory. Prerequisite: previous or current enrollment in NSCI 319 or NSCI 343. Neuroscience and Psychology majors given priority.
    Enrollment Limit: 10
    Instructor: B. Woodside
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Previous or current enrollment in NSCI 319 or NSCI 343.
  

  • NSCI 348 - Computational Neuroscience


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 NS
    This course will provide students a detailed introduction to computer models of neurons and neural circuits and the computational properties of the nervous system. Topics will include modeling neuronal excitability, ion channels, axonal conduction/cable theory, synaptic transmission, and plasticity. Application of computational models in the area of neuroscience will also be discussed through the use of classroom examples and literature review. Students will be expected to implement and explore the properties of a wide range of computational models. Basic computer programming will be introduced using programming languages such as NEURON.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: S. Lempka
    Prerequisites & Notes
    NSCI 201 or 204 or consent of the instructor
  

  • NSCI 350 - Behavioral Neuroscience


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    Through lectures, readings and discussions, we will explore what is known (and not known) about the physiological mechanisms that underlie behavior in humans and other animals. A variety of behaviors will be examined, including sleep and biological rhythms, ingestive behaviors (eating and drinking), reproductive behaviors, emotional behaviors, and human mental and behavioral disorders.
    Enrollment Limit: 16
    Instructor: J. Thornton
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: NSCI 201 or 204, or consent of instructor.
  

  • NSCI 400 - Neuroscience Seminar


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3NS
    Neuroscience seminars are capstone courses for Neuroscience majors designed to help students integrate and apply their knowledge of neuroscience as well as help them consolidate their research, analysis, writing, and presentation skills. These courses will focus on the analysis and discussion of the original research literature in a selected area of neuroscience.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: K. Caldwell, T. Paine
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Neuroscience major and senior status or consent of the instructor.
  

  • NSCI 607 - Independent Research


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0-4 hours
    Attribute: 4NS
    Students may select an independent research problem for individual investigation.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: M. Braford Jr, K. Caldwell, M. Loose, C. McCormick, T. Paine, Staff, J. Thornton, B. Woodside
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: NSCI 201 or NSCI 204.
  

  • NSCI 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3NS
    Independent study of a subject beyond the range of catalog course offerings. Signed permission of the instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: M. Braford Jr, K. Caldwell, M. Loose, C. McCormick, T. Paine, Staff, J. Thornton, B. Woodside
    Consent of the Instructor Required? A signed Private Reading Card must be submitted to the Registrar’s office
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Available to junior and senior majors. Grading option at the discretion of the instructor.
  

  • OCEAN 100 - Statistics


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1.5/3 Hours Total
    An introductory college statistics course. Topics include exploratory data analysis (graphs and summary statistics), data collection (experiments, observational studies, sampling), basic probability (binomial and normal random variables), and inference (confidence intervals and hypothesis tests). Although correct calculation is important, interpretation of results will be emphasized. Technology will be used to aid in data analysis. Students will collect, as well as analyze, data.  
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: strong grades (A's or B's) in mathematics, and preferably completion of Precalculus, but strong students who have completed Algebra II are also encouraged to apply. Because students are required to analyze and interpret data, writing skills are also important.
    Equivalent to Mathematics 113.  Students must complete the 2-semester sequence to earn credit.
  

  • OCEAN 101 - Shakespeare and Performance


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 to 3 Hours
    A study of three or four Shakespeare plays in depth, emphasizing their status as texts for performance. Students study the plays using rehearsal techniques and workshops, and analyze performances on video and live as available. Based on English 161: Drama Through Performance.
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: strong performance in previous English courses. 
    Equivalent to English 161.
  

  • OCEAN 103 - American History I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    An interpretive survey of American society, culture, and politics from the eve of European colonization through the close of Reconstruction. Emphasis on modes of historical analysis and important scholarly controversies. The course introduces students to a variety of approaches to the study of history, and develops student capacities to read both primary and secondary materials. Students write at least one research paper.
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Strong performance in previous social studies and English courses.  Equivalent to History 103.
  

  • OCEAN 104 - American History II


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 to 3 Hours
    An interpretive survey of American politics, society, and culture from the post-Civil War era to the present. Emphasis on modes of historical analysis and important scholarly controversies. The course introduces students to a variety of approaches to the study of history, and develops student capacities to read both primary and secondary materials. Students write at least one research paper. 
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Strong performance in previous social studies and English courses.  Equivalent to History 104.
  

  • OCEAN 113 - College Writing


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 to 3 Hours
    An introduction to college-level writing, on (1) writing processes, (2) critical reading and thinking, (3) rhetorical forms, (4) effective prose, (5) research methods, and (6) style, tone, and grammar. Students write frequently, and in a variety of prose forms. Because writing and reading are interrelated skills, students also read extensively in a variety of genres including academic essays, literary journalism, and personal narratives. The course also introduces students to elements of research and issues of citation and documentation.
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: strong performance in previous English courses. 
    Equivalent to Rhetoric and Composition 113 or 115.
  

  • OCEAN 121 - Global Politics: An Introduction to International Politics


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 to 3 Hours
    An introduction to the core concepts and approaches used in the study of international relations to examine issues and events that shape countries’ interactions.  Survey of major theoretical approaches (e.g., realist, liberal and constructivist) to understand issues such as international security concerns, global economic relations, the role of decision makers, international organizations and norms.
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: strong performance in previous social studies courses.
    Similar to Politics 120 or 121. 
  

  • OPTH 202 - Intro to Opera: Performing Techniques


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 to 3 Hours
    A two-semester course in the fundamentals of acting for the singer, emphasizing techniques of body movement through exercise and pantomimes; preparation and performance of opera scenes which stress ensemble work.
    Instructor: V. Vaughan
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Prerequisites: OPTH 202 is prerequisite to OPTH 203. (An equivalent introductory acting course may be substituted for OPTH 202 as a prerequisite to OPTH 203.)
    Open to singers and to pianists interested in accompanying opera; sophomore status required.
  

  • OPTH 203 - Introduction to Opera: Performing Techniques


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 to 3 Hours
    A two-semester course in the fundamentals of acting for the singer, emphasizing techniques of body movement through exercise and pantomimes; preparation and performance of opera scenes which stress ensemble work. Open to singers and to pianists interested in accompanying opera; sophomore status required.

     
    Instructor: V. Vaughan
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: OPTH 202 is prerequisite to OPTH 203. (An equivalent introductory acting course may be substituted for OPTH 202 as a prerequisite to OPTH 203.)
    Enrollment Limit: 25.
  

  • OPTH 304 - Production Project: Stage Management


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Serving as assistant stage manager for a major Opera Theater production. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 4. 
    Instructor: V. Vaughan
    Prerequisites & Notes
    May be repeated for credit. P/NP or CR/NE grading.
  

  • OPTH 305 - Opera Workshop


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A continuation of OPTH 202, 203. Emphasis is placed on eighteenth century period style, acting techniques unique to opera, and recitative; requirements include preparation and performance of opera scenes.
    Instructor: V. Vaughan
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites and Notes Prerequisite: OPTH 203.

    Enrollment Limit: 15.
  

  • OPTH 306 - Opera Workshop


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A continuation of OPTH 202, 203. Emphasis is placed on nineteenth- and twentieth-century period styles, acting techniques unique to opera, and spoken dialogue; requirements include preparation and performance of opera scenes.
    Instructor: J. Field

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: OPTH 203.
    Enrollment Limit: 10.
  

  • OPTH 400 - Performance Project


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Public performance of a major role with the Opera Theater or musical and dramatic preparation of an operatic role, selected by the instructor with the approval of the voice teacher. Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: J. Field
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 12.
    May be repeated for credit.
  

  • OPTH 404 - Seminar in Opera


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A continuation of OPTH 305, 306. Advanced work in role preparation, including individual class presentations of research projects on selected operas, audition techniques, preparation and performance of opera scenes. Emphasis is placed on becoming familiar with operas in the standard repertory and selected contemporary works.
    Instructor: J. Field
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 10.
    Prerequisite: OPTH 305, 306.
  

  • OPTH 405 - Seminar in Opera


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A continuation of OPTH 305, 306. Advanced work in role preparation, including individual class presentations of research projects on selected operas, audition techniques, preparation and performance of opera scenes; acting in a foreign language. Emphasis is placed on becoming familiar with operas in the standard repertory and selected contemporary works.
    Instructor: J. Field

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: OPTH 305, 306.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 10.
  

  • OPTH 406 - Seminar in Directing


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A study of the steps in mounting a production, from title selection through use of scenery, lights, and costumes to performance; discussion of major historical figures in the development of opera stage direction; projects in directing.
    Instructor: J. Field
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 4.
    Prerequisites: OPTH 305, 306.
  

  • OPTH 407 - Seminar in Directing


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    A study of the steps in mounting a production, from title selection through use of scenery, lights, and costumes to performance; discussion of major historical figures in the development of opera stage direction; projects in directing.
    Instructor: J. Field
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: OPTH 305, 306.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 4.
  

  • OPTH 500 - Advanced Seminar in Opera


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Advanced study in role development, performance practice, and professional development, including research and repeated public performances. Off-campus performances may be scheduled.
    Instructor: J. Field
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 4.
    Prerequisites: OPTH 404, 405.
    Open only to fifth-year students, special students, and candidates for the Artist Diploma.
  

  • OPTH 501 - Advanced Seminar in Opera


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Advanced study in role development, performance practice, and professional development, including research and repeated public performances. Off-campus performances may be scheduled.
    Instructor: J. Field
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: OPTH 404, 405.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 4.
    Open only to fifth-year students, special students, and candidates for the Artist Diploma.
 

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