MUS 304 - World Music & Culture

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3
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.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
1. apply a range of general and specialized terms relating to the study of music and culture;
2. demonstrate an in-depth familiarity with several major world music traditions, including
the abilities to identify (aurally) and speak or write about specific examples of each;
3. use the methods of music-cultural analysis to draw clear and reasoned connections
between musical expressions and the value systems and thought-processes of the
cultures that create and sustain them; and
4. describe how, throughout the world, music is used by informed, engaged, and reflective
citizens to both promote and challenge issues of cultural identity, political power, and
social justice and equality.

GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.