MUS 104 - Introduction to World Music

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-C1
Investigating various world music traditions, including those in Africa, South America, and Asia, with an emphasis on connections with culture and history. Previous musical experience welcome but not necessary.

Equivalent Quarter Course: MUS 1004.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-C1 - Lower Division Arts
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Become familiar with music from several major traditions of the world;
Develop a vocabulary of general and specialized terms relating to music;
Gain an understanding of the ways that people structure and think about music;
Better understand the relationship between music and culture and of the role music plays in human experience;
Investigate a music-culture of your choice and communicate your discoveries through writing and an oral presentation.

C1. Arts Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate an appreciation of the arts using their intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity;
respond to aesthetic experiences in the arts and develop an understanding of the integrity of both emotional and intellectual responses; and
in their intellectual and subjective considerations, demonstrate an understanding of the relationship among the self, the creative arts, and culture.