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MUSC 226 - F/Music in Western Civilization to 1750
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): The Arts
A study of music in the history of Western civilization to 1750. Emphasis is placed not only upon the evolutional development of music as an art but also upon its relationship to the political, economic, and cultural conditions of the various historical periods. (Attendance at musical performances may be required.)
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 110 or MUSC 189 or an equivalent background in music theory.
Offered: Every fall
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MUSC 227 - F/Music in Western Civilization Since 1750
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): The Arts
A study of music in the history of Western civilization from 1750 to the present, considered within the context of the political, social, and cultural conditions of the various historical periods. Emphasis will be placed not only on stylistic developments within the field of music, but also on interrelationships between music, art, and literature. Listening to, analyzing, and discussing representative compositions will be central to the course. (Attendance at musical performances will be required.)
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 226 or Permission of Instructor.
Offered: Every spring
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MUSC 232 - F/Folk Music in America
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): The Arts
A survey of folk music and related folklore in the United States and Canada. Explores the historical development of traditional song types and styles, instrumental folk music, and folk instruments. The main emphasis is on folk music in the Anglo-American and African-American traditions. Other population groups (e.g., French, Hispanic, German, Slavic and Asian-American) are studied for their influences on this music and for their current importance in an overall view of American folk music. (Attendance at representative musical performances will be required.)
Offered: Fall, odd years
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MUSC 233 - Introduction to Ethnomusicology
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An overview of the study of world music. The course will study musical traditions in light of distinctive technical characteristics; social and political roles; and local, national and international transmission and identity, both historically and as they are practiced to the present. Course requirements will call on students to engage in individual fieldwork and notate musical transcriptions.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 189 .
Offered: Every spring
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MUSC 236 - Music Analysis I: Analytical Models of Musical Form
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An examination of recent theories of classical form as well as a consideration of broader problems of musical form in post-classical repertories. Course includes short readings from the scholarly literature and analysis assignments, as well as a unit on how to write an analysis paper.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 190 .
Offered: Every fall
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MUSC 237 - Music Analysis II: Analytical Models of Harmony and Chromaticism
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An examination of analytical models of harmony and chromaticism. Topics may include: functional, linear, dualistic, or transformational models of harmony and chromaticism; relationship of chromaticism to functional tonality; enharmonicism; comparisons of early and late 19th-century harmonic practice; the relationship of harmony and chromaticism to musical form and formal rhetoric. Short readings from the scholarly literature as well as a unit on writing a music analysis paper.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 236 .
Offered: Every spring
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MUSC 240 - Piano
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 3
A continuation of MUSC 140 .
Prerequisite(s): two semesters of MUSC 140 or their equivalent and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 241 - Voice for the General Student
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 3
A continuation of MUSC 141 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 141 and permission of instructor.
Corequisite(s): concurrent enrollment in a MUSC 160 - Choral Organizations .
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 242 - Woodwinds for the General Student
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 3
A continuation of MUSC 142 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 142 and permission of instructor.
Corequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in a MUSC 165 - Instrumental Organizations .
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 243 - Brass for the General Student
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 3
A continuation of MUSC 143 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 143 and permission of instructor.
Corequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in a MUSC 165 - Instrumental Organizations .
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 244 - Strings for the General Student
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 3
A continuation of MUSC 144 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 144 and permission of instructor.
Corequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in a MUSC 165 - Instrumental Organizations .
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 245 - Percussion for the General Student
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 3
A continuation of MUSC 145 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 145 and permission of instructor.
Corequisite(s): concurrent enrollment in a MUSC 165 - Instrumental Organizations .
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 250 - Piano for the Performance Option
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 6
A continuation of MUSC 150 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 150 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit
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MUSC 251 - Voice for the Performance Option
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 2
A continuation of MUSC 151 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 151 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit
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MUSC 252 - Woodwinds for the Performance Option
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 6
A continuation of MUSC 152 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 152 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit
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MUSC 253 - Brass for the Performance Option
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 6
A continuation of MUSC 153 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 153 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit
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MUSC 254 - Strings for the Performance Option
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 6
A continuation of MUSC 154 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 154 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit
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MUSC 255 - Percussion for the Performance Option
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 6
A continuation of MUSC 155 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 155 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit
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MUSC 256 - Harmony I: Consonant Harmony
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A detailed practical study of classical harmony and part writing in both keyboard and vocal polyphonic styles through the use of partimenti and related materials. The first semester of the harmony course covers topics in consonant harmony, including cadences, sequences, simple modulations, and simple broderie. Continued emphasis on the development of aural skills from MUSC 190. Required for all students interested in the department’s music education option as well as those interested in further study in conducting and composition, as well as those intending to pursue graduate study.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 190 and MUSC 240 .
Corequisite(s): MUSC 240 may be taken as a co-requisite.
Offered: Every fall
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MUSC 257 - Harmony II: Dissonant Harmony
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A continuation of MUSC 256 , a detailed practical study of classical harmony and part writing in both keyboard and vocal polyphonic styles using partimenti and related materials. Topics include dissonant harmony, chromatic modulation, altered chords, pedals and complex broderie.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 256
Corequisite(s): A second semester of MUSC 240 .
Offered: Every Spring Semester
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MUSC 265 - F/Chamber Music Ensemble
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 2
General Education Area(s): The Arts
Small ensembles, such as piano trio, string quartet, wind quintet, or brass sextet, for advanced instrumentalists. (May be repeated for credit.) Admission by permission of instructor.
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MUSC 271 - F/Musical Theatre Production
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 3
General Education Area(s): The Arts
Provides students with a practical study of a selected musical through rehearsal and public performance. Emphasis is placed upon stage diction, dramaturgy, song and role interpretation, stage movement and vocal techniques technical design and crew work. Special registration procedures are handled by the department.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor following audition.
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 275 - American Folk Guitar II
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course is designed to provide the student with traditional techniques for accompanying folk songs and an introduction to playing folk-derived instrumental solos.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 175 - American Folk Guitar I or fluency in the basic first position chords.
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MUSC 280 - Musical Theatre Performance I: Foundations
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
This course is designed for potential musical theatre artists to integrate functional musical and dramatic skills in a musical theatre performance setting. Emphasis will include basic performance techniques, an introduction to portfolio creation, the development of analytic and interpretive abilities through solo songs, the discovery and process of the singer-actor, and the introduction of duet repertoire. This course may repeated once for credit.
Prerequisite(s): one semester voice class or voice lessons (MUSC 141 , MUSC 151 , MUSC 241 , MUSC 251 , MUSC 341 , MUSC 351 ) and permission of instructor.
Offered: Every fall
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MUSC 291 - F/Music and Ideas
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): The Arts
Each of the subtitles offered under Music and Ideas will present a focused study of the musical works of a single composer or closely allied network of composers, putting them in context with artistic, literary, economic, social, and political trends and movements of their era. Readings will include biographical and autobiographical writings regarding the individuals being studied, as well as period and contemporary scholarly and popular commentary. Attendance at musical performances will be required.
Offered: Every year
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MUSC 306 - Counterpoint I
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A first-semester course in writing in vocal polyphonic styles taking a species approach. Topics include three- and four-part counterpoint, and imitative and invertible counterpoint. Students will be responsible for weekly contrapuntal assignments as well as a series of short compositions
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 256
Offered: Fall, odd years
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MUSC 307 - Counterpoint II
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 2
A second-semester course in counterpoint examining tonal, contrapuntal forms and genres, including canons, inventions, and fugues. Students will be responsible for weekly contrapuntal assignments as well as a series of short compositions.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 306 .
Offered: Every semester
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MUSC 311 - Twentieth-Century Music
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An examination of twentieth century music from a historical and analytical perspective. Topics include impressionism, twentieth century tonal practice, jazz harmony, atonality, pitch-class sets, serialism, and minimalism.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 237 .
Offered: Every fall
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MUSC 315 - Theory, Criticism, and Modes of Analysis)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course is an examination of particular theoretical approaches and analytical models. Topics may include formal analytical models, aesthetic theory, sound studies, theories of voice, theories of music history, music and critical theory, and others. Significant emphasis placed on research and writing and engaging theoretical, scholarly literature. Strongly recommended for all students in the Musicology/HTCC program.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 213
Offered: Regularly though not on a rotating basis
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MUSC 317 - Orchestration
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 2
Instruments and their usages in various kinds of ensembles. Emphasis is upon the development of practical skills, such as scoring and arranging, score and part preparation and score reading.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 190 .
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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MUSC 331 - Studies in Keyboard Literature: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A seminar focusing on repertoire composed for the keyboard, delimited by the subtitle in a given semester (e.g., The History of Keyboard Literature, Keyboard Literature of the Classical Period, Twentieth-Century Keyboard Literature, The Keyboard as Chamber Instrument), and considered within the musical and cultural context of its day. Emphasis is on developments in musical style, performance practice, and instrument construction, as well as significant composers, celebrated performers, and contrasting analytical/performing interpretations. Activities central to the course include listening to, analyzing and discussing representative compositions. Attendance at specific musical performances is required.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 227 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Fall, even years
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
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MUSC 333 - Studies in Vocal Literature: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A seminar focusing on repertoire composed for the voice, delimited by the subtitle in a given semester (e.g., The History of Opera, Mozart’s Operas, The Operas of Verdi and Wagner, The History of Art Song), and considered within the musical and cultural context of its day. Emphasis is on developments in musical style and performance practice, as well as significant composers, celebrated singers, analytical/performing interpretations, and the relationships between text and music, voice and instrument, as relevant. Activities central to the course include listening to, viewing, analyzing and discussing representative compositions. Attendance at specific musical performances is required.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 227 .
Offered: Spring, odd years
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
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MUSC 334 - Music and Film: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course introduces students to theories and histories of the intersection of music, sound, and the moving image. Over the course of the semester, students will watch assigned films, read relative primary and secondary materials, and develop projects incorporating lessons and techniques discussed in class. Possible topics include the history of Hollywood film music, silent film sound, music and cross-marketing, television film music and sound, European cinema sound, video game music, a s well as composer, director, or genre-specific topics.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 227 .
Offered: Regularly though not on a rotating basis
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
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MUSC 335 - Studies in Instrumental Literature: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A seminar focusing on repertoire composed for instruments, delimited by the subtitle in a given semester (e.g., The History of the Symphony, The History of Chamber Music, Beethovens Symphonies, The Post-Wagnerian Symphony, The String Quartet), and considered within the musical and cultural context of its day. Emphasis is on developments in musical style, performance practice, and instrument construction, as well as significant composers, celebrated conductors/ performers, and analytical/performing interpretations. Activities central to the course include listening to, analyzing and discussing representative compositions. Attendance at specific musical performances is required.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 227 .
Offered: Fall, odd years
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
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MUSC 336 - Music, Gender, and Sexuality: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A consideration of the relationships between musical practices, styles, and genres to notions of gender and sexuality. Offered under rotating subtitles, topics may include gender and musical genre; music, modernism, and sexuality; opera and queer theory/ opera and feminist criticism; and gender, sexuality and musical media. In addition to Musicological approaches to gender and sexuality studies, this course will also examine foundational texts in feminist theory, queer theory, as well as histories of gender and sexuality by authors such as Foucault, Butler, Sedgwick, and others.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 227 .
Offered: Regularly though not on a rotating basis
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
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MUSC 337 - Music, Race, and Ethnicity: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An examination of the relationship between historical, cultural, and political contexts, notions of race and ethnicity, and resulting artistic production. Students will engage with popular music, jazz, fusion, as well as classical genres. They will analyze works drawing from a variety of disciplines including critical theory and music analysis in order to understand the cultural work music and musical activities do in social contexts. Possible topics include critical theories of race and musical production, the history of hip-hop, music in immigrant communities, the history of jazz, and a survey course on theories of race, politics, and music by African Americans.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 227 or MUSC 232 or MUSC 233 .
Offered: Regularly though not on a rotating basis
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
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MUSC 338 - Folk Music in New York State
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An ethnomusicological study of folk music and selected ethnic, popular, and classical traditions in New York State. The course will examine both historical and present day examples and will emphasize the extraordinary variety of musical traditions found within the state. Attendance at off-campus musical events and individual fieldwork will be required.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 190 .
Offered: Fall, even years, not on a regular basis
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MUSC 339 - Folk and Popular Music Studies: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An examination of various styles and genres of popular and folk music in specific historical, cultural, aesthetic, and political contexts. This course will also examine basic theoretical texts in the field of popular music studies. Topics to be considered may include notions of high and low art, popular music and identity construction, geographies of popular music, the politics of folk and popular music, and musical folklore.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 227 or MUSC 232 or MUSC 233 .
Offered: Regularly though not on a rotating basis
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
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MUSC 340 - Piano
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 3
A continuation of MUSC 240 .
Prerequisite(s): a minimum of two semesters of MUSC 240 or their equivalent and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 341 - Voice for the General Student
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 3
A continuation of MUSC 241 .
Prerequisite(s): two semesters of MUSC 241 and permission of instructor.
Corequisite(s): concurrent enrollment in a MUSC 160 - Choral Organizations .
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 342 - Woodwinds for the General Student
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 3
A continuation of MUSC 242 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 242 and permission of instructor.
Corequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in a MUSC 165 - Instrumental Organizations .
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 343 - Brass for the General Student
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 3
A continuation of MUSC 243 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 243 and permission of instructor.
Corequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in a MUSC 165 - Instrumental Organizations .
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 344 - Strings for the General Student
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 3
A continuation of MUSC 244 .
Prerequisite(s): two semesters of MUSC 244 and permission of instructor.
Corequisite(s): concurrent enrollment in a MUSC 165 - Instrumental Organizations .
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 345 - Percussion for the General Student
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 3
A continuation of MUSC 245 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 245 and permission of instructor.
Corequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in a MUSC 165 - Instrumental Organizations .
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 346 - Jazz Harmony and Improvisation I
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 2
This course is an introductory study of jazz improvisation and the fundamental elements necessary to develop musical ideas in the jazz idiom. Topics will include the study of form, common patterns, vocabulary and style analysis. Techniques will include transcription, practical application, sight singing and the development of original solo ideas. Principles to be covered will include melodic and harmonic analysis, phrase construction, ear training and solo development.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 213
Offered: Every spring
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MUSC 347 - Jazz Harmony and Improvisation II
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 2
A continuation of MUSC 346 , this course is an in-depth study of jazz improvisation and the fundamental elements necessary to develop musical ideas in the jazz idiom. Topics will include the study of form, common patterns, vocabulary and style analysis. Techniques will include transcription, practical application, sight singing and the development of original solo ideas. Principles to be covered will include melodic and harmonic analysis, phrase construction, ear training and solo development.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 346 .
Offered: Every fall
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MUSC 350 - Piano for the Performance Option
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 6
A continuation of MUSC 250 .
Prerequisite(s): two semesters of MUSC 250 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 351 - Voice for the Performance Option
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 2
A continuation of MUSC 251 .
Prerequisite(s): two semesters of MUSC 251 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 352 - Woodwinds for the Performance Option
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 6
A continuation of MUSC 252 .
Prerequisite(s): two semesters of MUSC 252 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 353 - Brass for the Performance Option
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 6
A continuation of MUSC 253 .
Prerequisite(s): two semesters of MUSC 253 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 354 - Strings for the Performance Option
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 6
A continuation of MUSC 254 .
Prerequisite(s): two semesters of MUSC 254 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 355 - Percussion for the Performance Option
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 6
A continuation of MUSC 255 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 255 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 356 - Composition I
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 0
An introductory study of contemporary diatonic and chromatic practice from a practical, compositional perspective, intended to familiarize students with basic techniques for extended tonal, as well as post-tonal composition including use of extended harmonies, modern dissonance treatment, non-functional chromaticism, modality parallelism, use of whole tone scales, pentatonicism and octatonicism, quartal and quintal harmonies, and atonal/free chromatic counterpoint. Emphasis is placed on choral writing and small instrumental ensembles.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Instructor
Offered: Every Spring Semester
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MUSC 357 - Composition II
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 0
Individualized study of contemporary composition techniques, a continuation of MUSC 356 .
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 356 .
Offered: Every semester
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MUSC 359 - Junior Recital
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 3
Required of all music majors in the music performance option, to be taken in the junior year in preparation for a 30-minute recital of representative works studied, selected in consultation with the studio teacher, demonstrating knowledge of varied musical styles as well as professional standards of technique, musicality, and interpretation.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
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MUSC 365 - Conducting I
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An introduction to the conductor’s art. Training in the basic patterns and gestures of conducting; special exercises in aural development; score reading and analytical skills for score study; rehearsal techniques. Emphasis will be placed upon choral literature and vocal development. (Attendance at musical performances will be required.)
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 256 and two semesters of MUSC 160 or MUSC 165 .
Offered: Fall, odd years, if demand is sufficient
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MUSC 366 - Conducting II
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A continuation of Conducting I with an emphasis on orchestral and wind ensemble conducting techniques, repertory, sight reading and score reading at the piano. While emphasis is placed on these practical aspects of conducting, students will also be expected to demonstrate a working knowledge of all transpositions, instrumental fingerings and ranges. Conducting assignments, resulting in public performance, will be assigned at the beginning of the term. A final “practicum” demonstrating competency in all areas will be expected of each student. In addition, students will be expected to attend specified rehearsals and concerts to observe different rehearsal and conducting techniques.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 365
Offered: Spring, even years
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MUSC 368 - Vocal Pedagogy
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 1
A study of various aspects of the singing process in light of analyzing and solving performance problems that commonly confront the student singer. The areas of study include vocal technique, musicianship, communication, and stage presence, with particular emphasis given to vocal technique. In addition to a one-hour class per week, each student pedagogue will be assigned one male and one female voice student with whom to work individually for a minimum of 1/2 hour each, per week.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing; two years of previous major vocal study; and permission of instructor.
Offered: Every spring
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MUSC 375 - Piano Pedagogy
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An introduction to methods and materials used in teaching piano. Study of traditional theories of teaching and playing developed over three centuries, as well as recent methods of dealing with child and adult, beginning and intermediate, students. Field trips may be scheduled.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 189 , MUSC 190 , and demonstrated proficiency at the keyboard; or permission of instructor.
Offered: Every spring
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MUSC 376 - Piano Teaching Practicum
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 2
Students are to observe and assist faculty instructors in group and individual situations in which piano instruction is given on beginning and intermediate levels. Two one-hour sessions of teaching participation and one period devoted to critique and discussion will be required. Students participating will assume the role of tutors only. All grades in the piano courses being taught will be given by faculty instructors.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 375 .
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MUSC 380 - Musical Theatre Performance II: Characterization & Scene Study
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 2
This course is designed for potential musical theatre artists to continue to integrate and strengthen musical and dramatic skills The emphasis on musical scene study will include research and analysis of selected repertoire, detailed rehearsal skills and techniques, heightened awareness of the transitional moment when spoken word becomes song, and the strengthening of analytic and interpretive abilities through duet and small group repertoire.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 280 and permission of instructor
Corequisite(s): MUSC 381
Offered: Every spring
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit
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MUSC 381 - Musical Theatre Performance III: Portfolio & Audition Techniques
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 2
This course is designed for potential musical theatre artists to continue to integrate and strengthen musical and dramatic skills in several audition settings. Emphasis will include detailed musical theatre audition skills and techniques, communication skills in a professional audition, and the completion of an audition portfolio. This course may be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 280 and permission of instructor
Corequisite(s): MUSC 380
Offered: Every spring semester
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MUSC 382 - Musical Theatre Performance IV: Speech for Singers
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 2
This course is designed for potential musical theatre artists to free the natural voice through the Linklater technique. Emphasis will include speech production, relaxation, breath support, use of resonators and articulators, and understanding and use of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 280 & permission of instructor.
Corequisite(s): To be taken concurrently with MUSC 383 .
Offered: Every fall
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit
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MUSC 383 - Musical Theatre Performance V: Movement for Musical Theatre
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 2
This course is designed for potential musical theatre artists to identify and apply Laban movement qualities to all character work and be able to convey stories non-verbally; physical details of posture, gesture, locomotion and movement qualities will convey details of characters’ objectives, histories, and emotional/psychological states
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 280 & permission of instructor.
Corequisite(s): To be taken concurrently with MUSC 382 .
Offered: Every fall
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit
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MUSC 393 - Honors Project in Music: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 9
Independent study on a musical project mutually agreed upon by the student and a mentor from the Music Faculty. Enrollment by invitation of the Faculty. To be eligible, students normally will have completed 75 credits with at least a 3.00 cumulative grade point average overall and a 3.50 grade point average in music courses.
Offered: By individual arrangement
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MUSC 399 - Directed Study
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1-3
Selected study or research in a field of specialization in music or solo recital under the supervision of a staff member.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
Offered: By individual arrangement
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MUSC 439 - Portfolio Review
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Portfolio of written and/or creative work required for all students in the HTCC option. Developed in consultation with the advisor, the portfolio will include samples of student work, both revised and new, as well as a statement of reflection addressing learning goals and outcomes. Students will meet for regular writing and peer review/editing workshops, as well as present work on an ongoing basis over the course of the semester.
Offered: Every semester, by individual arrangement
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MUSC 450 - Piano for the Performance Option
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 6
A continuation of MUSC 350
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 350 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 451 - Voice for the Performance Option
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 2
A continuation of MUSC 351 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 351 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 452 - Woodwinds for the Performance Option
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 6
A continuation of MUSC 352 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 352 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 453 - Brass for the Performance Option
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 6
A continuation of MUSC 353 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 353 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 454 - Strings for the Performance Option
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 6
A continuation of MUSC 354 .
Prerequisite(s): Two semesters of MUSC 354 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 456 - Composition for the Music Major
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 2
Individualized study of recent compositional practices, including but not limited to atonality, extended tonality, neo-romanticism and minimalism.
Prerequisite(s): MUSC 357 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Every semester
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 459 - Senior Recital
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 6
Required of all music majors in the music performance option, to be taken in the senior year in preparation for a 1-hour recital of representative works studied, selected in consultation with the studio teacher, demonstrating knowledge of varied musical styles as well as professional standards of technique, musicality, and interpretation.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
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MUSC 480 - Musical Theatre Performance VI: Comedy & Styles
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
This course is designed for potential musical theatre artists to develop the seven techniques of comedy - automatism, takes, comic anger, exaggeration, the rule of three, timing, and delivery. Emphasis will include comedy techniques and development of Vaudeville, Golden Age, New Age, and Contemporary styles in musical theatre.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites: MUSC 380 & permission of instructor.
Offered: Every spring
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit
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MUSC 481 - Musical Theatre Performance VII: Trends & Entrepreneurship
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 0
This course is designed to continue the preparation of young musical theatre artists and the understanding of the musical theatre genre as not only entertainment, but also art. Students will reflect on the industry, on art, and on community as it relates to the musical theatre world. Students will begin the process of bridging into non-academic theatre by learning to explore employment options and further schooling. Students will establish a reel, portfolio, resumé, repertoire list, and acquire headshots.
Corequisite(s): MUSC 489
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): MUSC 381 & permission of instructor.
Offered: Every fall
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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MUSC 489 - Senior Showcase
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 1
This course is designed to prepare potential musical theatre artists to participate in 267 a musical theatre showcase on campus as arranged by the instructor (includes solos, small ensembles and scenes, group numbers) that will culminate in an Externship to NYC to perform for industry professionals. Students will accumulate performable solo mate- rial (4 pre-1970 ballads, 4 pre-1970 up-tempos, 4 contemporary ballads, 4 contemporary up-tempos, 2 Sondheim, 1 country, 1 pop/rock, 2 comic selections) and observe professional work
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
Corequisite(s): To be taken concurrently with MUSC 481
Offered: Every fall
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MUSC 490 - Musical Theatre Senior Showcase for NYC
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 0
This capstone course is designed for senior musical theatre students to perform their senior showcase in NYC for casting directors, agents, and industry professionals.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Instructor
Offered: Every Spring Semester
Restricted to: Musical Theater
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NEUR 205 - Neuroscience Technology Laboratory
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 3
Students will review and respond to selected readings, videos, animations, and virtual experiments designed to demonstrate the application of theory and techniques used in Neuroscience.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): BIOL 116 , BIOL 117 , and (CHEM 116 /CHEM 118 or CHEM 203 /CHEM 204 ).
Offered: Every fall
Restricted to: Neuroscience majors
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NEUR 206 - Neuroscience Practical Laboratory
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 4
Students will participate in weekly laboratory exercises designed to demonstrate the application of theory and techniques used in Neuroscience.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): BIOL 116 BIOL 117 , and (CHEM 116 /CHEM 118 or CHEM 203 /CHEM 204 ).
Offered: Every spring
Restricted to: Neuroscience majors
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NEUR 215 - Applications in Neuroscience
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 2
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 4
This course requires participating in community service work focused on care and treatment of individuals with neurological disease/dysfunction. Students will also compose a written report and poster-style presentation integrating experiences of their field work with relevant findings from current scientific literature.
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing
Offered: Every semester
Restricted to: Neuroscience majors
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NEUR 310 - Neuroscience Seminar
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 0
A discussion course dealing with a selected area of Neuroscience research and based on current literature.
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing.
Offered: Every fall
Restricted to: Neuroscience majors.
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NEUR 399 - Directed Study
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1-4
Students work individually on a research problem in neuroscience under the supervision of a faculty member. A maximum of 4 credits of NEUR 399 may be applied toward the major in Biology.
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing, permission of instructor and approval of director of the Neuroscience program.
Offered: By individual arrangement
Restricted to: Neuroscience majors
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PHIL 100 - Introduction to Philosophy
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
Encourages critical thinking about fundamental problems that concern existence, knowledge, and value. As a means to this end, several philosophical works are read, discussed, and evaluated.
Offered: Every semester
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PHIL 108 - Critical Thinking
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An attempt to employ critical reasoning in a variety of everyday contexts. Standards will be developed to help distinguish fallacies from argumentation, prejudice from evidence, and poppycock from science. The course will have a practical orientation.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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PHIL 111 - R/Introduction to Logic
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Mathematics
An introduction to deductive logic, including propositional and predicate logic, Aristotelian logic, problems of definition, informal fallacies, and the elements of linguistic analysis.
Offered: Every semester
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PHIL 130 - Ethics
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An introductory course aimed at the improvement of moral reasoning. Analysis and assessment of contemporary examples are stressed.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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PHIL 136 - Medicine and Morality
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A non-technical, introductory-level course which explores basic moral issues in the related fields of medicine and psychology. Issues to be discussed include (1) Should we have socialized medicine? (2) Do we have an unlimited right to reproduce? (3) Should we engage in genetic control? (4) Is abortion moral? (5) Is euthanasia moral? (6) Should we experiment on human beings? (7) Is the notion of mental illness a myth? (8) Can behavior control be justified? (9) Are we free or determined? These questions are approached from various moral perspectives (e.g., egoism, relativism, utilitarianism, existentialism, intuitionism, and Kantianism).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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PHIL 201 - Environmental Ethics
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An inquiry concerning which entities, if any, have rights, whether non-human entities can have rights, and how one could justify claims about non-human rights. The outcome of the inquiry depends on an adequate account of good-in-itself. The course includes a survey of the environmental problems facing this planet.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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PHIL 202 - M/World Religions & Contemporary Issues
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Other World Civilizations
The insights and teachings of major living religions will be analyzed by a study of their basic texts and teachers: Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Comparison of how their teachings apply to such contemporary issues as war and peace, the environment, gender, race, sexual orientation, and economic justice.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Crosslisted with: PLSC 202.
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PHIL 203 - Computer Ethics
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
Computers have done more to change the world we live in than any other single development in recent times. These changes have created new moral issues which we must face. By looking both at considered ethical foundations of the past and the new challenges of the present and the future, this course attempts to provide a critical basis for meeting these new issues, which include invasion of privacy, computer crime, professional ethics and responsibility, ownership and stealing of computer technology, the political implications of computer power, and the impact of the use and misuse of computer technology.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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PHIL 204 - Philosophy of Woman
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An examination of the classical Western philosophical views on woman, and the contemporary feminist response. Different theoretical frameworks for feminism are examined: liberal, Marxist, radical, psychoanalytic, socialist, existentialist, postmodern, multicultural and global. Traditional philosophical areas that are addressed in this examination are ethics, politics, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, law, language, and philosophy of religion. Topics of major concern include oppression, rights, human nature, equality, responsibility, freedom, and moral reform.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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PHIL 205 - Ancient Philosophy
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An examination of the fundamental ideas of Western civilization against the Greek background that produced them. Original texts in translation are read. Selections from the works of such philosophers as Parmenides, Heraclitus, Democritus, Plato, and Aristotle are read, discussed, and evaluated.
Offered: Every fall
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PHIL 207 - Modern Philosophy
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An examination of some of the fundamental ideas of philosophy in the modern period. Original texts in translation are read. Selections from the works of such philosophers as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant are read, discussed, and evaluated.
Offered: Every spring
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PHIL 209 - Phenomenology and Existentialism
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An examination of some of the leading motifs of phenomenology and existentialism. Thinkers and topics to include: Kierkegaard: Impossibility of an existential system; Faith and subjective truth; Teleological suspension of the ethical. Nietzsche: Death of God; Master morality, slave morality, and traditional morality; Will to power and the superman; Overcoming nihilism. Husserl: Critique of psychologism and historicism; Consciousness as intentionality; Grounding of knowledge and action on transcendental subjectivity; Life-world and the sciences. Heidegger: Meaning of Being and human existence; Authentic and inauthentic being towards-death; Human existence, temporality, and history. Sartre: Being, consciousness, and nothingness; Existence precedes essence; Freedom, bad faith, and authenticity; Possibility of an ethics.
Offered: Every other year
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PHIL 214 - M/Chinese Philosophy
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Other World Civilizations
This course will provide a chronological survey of Chinese philosophy. Chinese philosophy has often been characterized as ‘humanism.’ But this humanism has its cosmological roots. This course will begin with the basic cosmological view of the ancient Chinese, and then investigate how different humanistic approaches under the same cosmological view could emerge. Three main schools of thought to be covered are: Confucianism, Taoism and Chinese Buddhism. The course will conclude with some contemporary articles on Chinese philosophy, and investigate how Chinese philosophy can develop from this stage on. This course has no prerequisites and assumes no background in philosophy or in Chinese language and culture.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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PHIL 215 - M/Eastern Philosophy
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Other World Civilizations
An introduction to some of the central texts and viewpoints of the Eastern philosophical tradition. The views explored will be Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian. The approach will be primarily philosophical, not historical. The goal will be to understand and critically evaluate the main metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical ideas lying at the center of each tradition. The issues explored will include the status and nature of the self, the possibility of some ultimate undefinable immanent reality, the metaphysical status of space-time-matter-causality, the relation between opposites such as good and evil, and the nature of the good life.
Offered: Every other year
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PHIL 216 - Reasoning and the Law
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An introduction to critical reasoning skills that is narrowly focused on the specific needs of undergraduate prelaw students, and an analysis of original material in the legal field. Topics covered include basics of recognizing arguments, informal methods and techniques for evaluating arguments, techniques for writing argumentatively, the nature of the law and fundamentals of the legal context, the distinction between descriptive and normative legal reasoning, how lawyers reason, how judges reason, and detailed analysis of several important cases.
Offered: Every fall
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PHIL 217 - Problems in the Philosophy of Law
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A systematic exploration of the foundations of law. Major topics include the nature of law and the criteria for a legal system, competing legal theories, the relation between legality and morality, competing theories concerning criminal justice and the justification of punishment.
Offered: Once a year
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PHIL 218 - Philosophy of Religion
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An examination of selected problems in the philosophy of religion. Topics include classical and contemporary arguments for and against the existence of God, existentialist approaches to religion, science and religion, the meaningfulness of theological language, miracles, freedom, death, and immortality.
Prerequisite(s): one course in philosophy.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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