Jun 22, 2024  
2021-2022 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2021-2022 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Music

  
  • MUSC 244 - Strings for the General Student


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 245 - Percussion for the General Student


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 250 - Piano for the Performance Option


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 251 - Voice for the Performance Option


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 252 - Woodwinds for the Performance Option


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 253 - Brass for the Performance Option


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 254 - Strings for the Performance Option


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 255 - Percussion for the Performance Option


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 256 - Harmony I: Consonant Harmony


    2021-2022 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 Semester
  
  • MUSC 257 - Harmony II: Dissonant Harmony


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 265 - F/Chamber Music Ensemble


    2021-2022 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.

  
  • MUSC 271 - F/Musical Theatre Production


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 275 - American Folk Guitar II


    2021-2022 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.
  
  • MUSC 280 - Musical Theatre Performance I: Foundations


    2021-2022 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 Semester
  
  • MUSC 291 - F/Music and Ideas


    2021-2022 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: Once a Year
  
  • MUSC 306 - Counterpoint I


    2021-2022 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 Semester - Odd Years

  
  • MUSC 307 - Counterpoint II


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 311 - Twentieth-Century Music


    2021-2022 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 Semester
  
  • MUSC 315 - Theory, Criticism, and Modes of Analysis)


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 317 - Orchestration


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 331 - Studies in Keyboard Literature: (subtitle)


    2021-2022 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.
    Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
    Offered: Fall Semester - Even Years
  
  • MUSC 333 - Studies in Vocal Literature: (subtitle)


    2021-2022 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 .
    Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
    Offered: Spring Semester - Odd Years
  
  • MUSC 334 - Music and Film: (subtitle)


    2021-2022 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 .
    Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
    Offered: Regularly though not on a rotating basis
  
  • MUSC 335 - Studies in Instrumental Literature: (subtitle)


    2021-2022 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 .
    Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
    Offered: Fall Semester - Odd Years
  
  • MUSC 336 - Music, Gender, and Sexuality: (subtitle)


    2021-2022 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 .
    Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
    Offered: Regularly though not on a rotating basis
  
  • MUSC 337 - Music, Race, and Ethnicity: (subtitle)


    2021-2022 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 .
    Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
    Offered: Regularly though not on a rotating basis
  
  • MUSC 338 - Folk Music in New York State


    2021-2022 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 Semester - Even Years, Not on a Regular Basis
  
  • MUSC 339 - Folk and Popular Music Studies: (subtitle)


    2021-2022 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 .
    Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
    Offered: Regularly though not on a rotating basis
  
  • MUSC 340 - Piano


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 341 - Voice for the General Student


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 342 - Woodwinds for the General Student


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 343 - Brass for the General Student


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 344 - Strings for the General Student


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 345 - Percussion for the General Student


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 346 - Jazz Harmony and Improvisation I


    2021-2022 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 Semester
  
  • MUSC 347 - Jazz Harmony and Improvisation II


    2021-2022 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 Semester
  
  • MUSC 350 - Piano for the Performance Option


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 351 - Voice for the Performance Option


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 352 - Woodwinds for the Performance Option


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 353 - Brass for the Performance Option


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 354 - Strings for the Performance Option


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 355 - Percussion for the Performance Option


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 356 - Composition I


    2021-2022 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

  
  • MUSC 357 - Composition II


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 359 - Junior Recital


    2021-2022 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.
  
  • MUSC 365 - Conducting I


    2021-2022 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 Semester - Odd Years, When Demand is Sufficient
  
  • MUSC 366 - Conducting II


    2021-2022 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 Semester - Even Years
  
  • MUSC 368 - Vocal Pedagogy


    2021-2022 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 Semester
  
  • MUSC 375 - Piano Pedagogy


    2021-2022 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 Semester
  
  • MUSC 376 - Piano Teaching Practicum


    2021-2022 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 .
  
  • MUSC 380 - Musical Theatre Performance II: Characterization & Scene Study


    2021-2022 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  
    Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit
    Offered: Every Spring Semester
  
  • MUSC 381 - Musical Theatre Performance III: Portfolio & Audition Techniques


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 382 - Musical Theatre Performance IV: Speech for Singers


    2021-2022 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 .
    Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit
    Offered: Every Fall Semester
  
  • MUSC 383 - Musical Theatre Performance V: Movement for Musical Theatre


    2021-2022 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  .
    Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit
    Offered: Every Fall Semester
  
  • MUSC 393 - Honors Project in Music: (subtitle)


    2021-2022 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: Individual Arrangement
  
  • MUSC 399 - Directed Study


    2021-2022 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: Individual Arrangement
  
  • MUSC 439 - Portfolio Review


    2021-2022 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, Individual Arrangement
  
  • MUSC 450 - Piano for the Performance Option


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 451 - Voice for the Performance Option


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 452 - Woodwinds for the Performance Option


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 453 - Brass for the Performance Option


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 454 - Strings for the Performance Option


    2021-2022 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
  
  • MUSC 456 - Composition for the Music Major


    2021-2022 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.
    Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
    Offered: Every Semester
  
  • MUSC 459 - Senior Recital


    2021-2022 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.
  
  • MUSC 480 - Musical Theatre Performance VI: Comedy & Styles


    2021-2022 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.
    Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit
    Offered: Every Spring Semester
  
  • MUSC 481 - Musical Theatre Performance VII: Trends & Entrepreneurship


    2021-2022 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.
    Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
    Offered: Every Fall Semester
  
  • MUSC 489 - Senior Showcase


    2021-2022 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 Semester
  
  • MUSC 490 - Musical Theatre Senior Showcase for NYC


    2021-2022 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
    Restricted to: Musical Theater Majors
    Offered: Every Spring Semester

Neuroscience

  
  • NEUR 205 - Neuroscience Technology Laboratory


    2021-2022 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 ).
    Restricted to: Neuroscience Majors
    Offered: Once a Year
  
  • NEUR 206 - Neuroscience Practical Laboratory


    2021-2022 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 ).
    Restricted to: Neuroscience Majors
    Class Restriction: Senior
    Offered: Once a Year
  
  • NEUR 215 - Applications in Neuroscience


    2021-2022 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)/Corequisite(s): BIOL 116 /BIOL 117  and (CHEM 116 /CHEM 118  or CHEM 203 /CHEM 204 )    
    Restricted to: Neuroscience Majors
    Class Restriction: Junior, Senior
    Offered: Every Spring Semester
    Graded: N - Normal


  
  • NEUR 310 - Neuroscience Seminar


    2021-2022 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.
    Restricted to: Neuroscience Majors
    Offered: Every Fall Semester
  
  • NEUR 399 - Directed Study


    2021-2022 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.
    Restricted to: Neuroscience Majors
    Offered: Individual Arrangement

Performance as Social Change

  
  • PASC 105 - F/Introduction to Performance as Social Change I


    2021-2022 Catalog Year

    Credit(s): 4
    Lecture: 3
    Non-Lecture: 2
    General Education Area(s): Fine Arts

    Performance as Social Change is a course designed to expose underrepresented students and those that have unequal access and opportunity to performance-based knowledge, skills, critical pedagogies, and mentoring. The course will produce an experimental performance. Centering embodiment, the goal of this authentic task will be to increase awareness and enhancement of multicultural competency for audiences and community members through the communicative powers of the performing arts. Throughout the course, students will be required to engage in academic study, research, movement and reflective practices. Central to this work will be a focus on the critical factors that can help facilitate social change through the voices of underrepresented and marginalized groups in our society. (Guest artist collaborations)

    Offered: Every Fall Semester
    Graded: N - Normal


  
  • PASC 106 - Introduction to Performance as Social Change I


    2021-2022 Catalog Year

    Credit(s): 1
    Lecture: 0
    Non-Lecture: 2
    A continuation of PASC 105 , leading to a performance of a culminating project each spring semesters.

    Prerequisite(s): PASC 105  
    Offered: Every Spring Semester
    Graded: N - Normal


  
  • PASC 205 - Intermediate Performance as Social Change II


    2021-2022 Catalog Year

    Credit(s): 4
    Lecture: 3
    Non-Lecture: 2
    Performance as Social Change is a course designed to expose underrepresented students and those that have unequal access and opportunity to performance-based knowledge and skills, critical pedagogies, and mentoring. The course will produce an experimental dance and performance. Centering embodiment, the goal of this authentic task will be to increase the awareness and enhancement of multicultural competency for audiences and community members through the communicative powers of the performing arts. Throughout the course, students will be required to engage in academic study, research, movement and reflective practices. Central to this work will be a focus on the critical factors that can help facilitate social change through the voices of underrepresented and marginalized groups in our society. (Guest artist collaborations)

    Prerequisite(s): PASC 105  and PASC 106  
    Offered: Every Fall Semester
    Graded: N - Normal


  
  • PASC 206 - Intermediate Performance as Social Change II


    2021-2022 Catalog Year

    Credit(s): 1
    Lecture: 0
    Non-Lecture: 2
    A continuation of PASC 205 , leading to a performance of a culminating project.

    Offered: Every Spring Semester
    Graded: N - Normal


  
  • PASC 341 - Capstone in Performance as Social Change


    2021-2022 Catalog Year

    Credit(s): 4
    Lecture: 3
    Non-Lecture: 2
    Students design and implement their own performance.

    Offered: Every Spring Semester
    Graded: N - Normal



Philosophy

  
  • PHIL 100 - Introduction to Philosophy


    2021-2022 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
  
  • PHIL 108 - Critical Thinking


    2021-2022 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
  
  • PHIL 111 - R/Introduction to Logic


    2021-2022 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
  
  • PHIL 130 - Ethics


    2021-2022 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
  
  • PHIL 201 - Environmental Ethics


    2021-2022 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
  
  • PHIL 202 - M/World Religions & Contemporary Issues


    2021-2022 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.

    Crosslisted with:

    PLSC 202.


    Offered: Not on a Regular Basis
  
  • PHIL 203 - Computer Ethics


    2021-2022 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
  
  • PHIL 204 - Feminist Philosophy


    2021-2022 Catalog Year

    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture: 3
    Non-Lecture: 0
    This course provides an introduction to contemporary work in feminist philosophy and will apply philosophical methods of reasoning to a variety of topics of feminist concern. Throughout the course we will stress the diversity of feminist theories and approaches. We will also emphasize the ways in which feminist work has intervened in various subfields of philosophy as well as taking up and evaluating feminist criticism and transformation of philosophy as a discipline.

    Offered: Not on a Regular Basis
    Graded: N - Normal


  
  • PHIL 208 - Philosophy of Race


    2021-2022 Catalog Year

    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture: 3
    Non-Lecture: 0
    This course offers an overview of recent philosophical discussions of race. More specifically, we will take up philosophical methods and concepts in order to investigate the nature of race and to evaluate contrasting approaches to racial justice. Themes will span issues of value theory as well as epistemological and metaphysical concerns. Specific topics are likely to include questions such as: What is the nature of race-is it a biological category or a social construction? How does race as a categorization relate to racial identity? Can one change one’s race? How is race related to knowledge production? What is the nature of ongoing racial oppression in the U.S. and how can it best be overcome?

    Offered: Not on a Regular Basis
    Graded: N - Normal


  
  • PHIL 215 - M/Eastern Philosophy


    2021-2022 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: Once Every Other Year
  
  • PHIL 216 - Reasoning and the Law


    2021-2022 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: Not on a Regular Basis
  
  • PHIL 218 - Philosophy of Religion


    2021-2022 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.

    Offered: Not on a Regular Basis
    Graded: N - Normal


  
  • PHIL 222 - Philosophy and Religion in Ancient Mediterranean


    2021-2022 Catalog Year

    Credit(s): 2
    Lecture: 2
    Non-Lecture: 0
    A survey of the religious culture and the philosophical tradition of the ancient Mediterranean. The course is intended to be part of the summer Mediterranean Roots Program in Greece and Italy and is to be given together with the Humanities I course. It could be given during a regular semester also, if demand is sufficient.

  
  • PHIL 225 - Philosophy of the Arts


    2021-2022 Catalog Year

    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture: 3
    Non-Lecture: 0
    An inquiry into the concepts of art and good art. Could soundless “music,” “Don Giovanni,” “Brillo Boxes,” the Sistine ceiling, Rambo III, and Macbeth possibly fall under one concept? Who is to say that the Beatles are better than Bach, or that Warhol is worse than Watteau .. or have we asked the wrong question?

    Offered: Not on a Regular Basis
  
  • PHIL 226 - Philosophy and Literature


    2021-2022 Catalog Year

    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture: 3
    Non-Lecture: 0
    This course will begin by looking at Plato’s reasons for finding an “ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry” and Aristotle’s response. This will lead to a discussion of what is, or should be, the effect of imaginative literature. More specifically-and this will be the course’s central focus-we will consider whether literature can make a contribution to our ethical knowledge in a way that philosophy does not. Inevitably this will bring up questions about the cognitive and evaluative nature of emotion. We will look, too, at two plays by Sartre to see what, if anything, they add to his purely philosophical writings. Finally, we will consider briefly whether it is possible for a work of literature to be aesthetically excellent yet morally suspect.

    Offered: Not on a Regular Basis
  
  • PHIL 235 - Philosophy of Biology


    2021-2022 Catalog Year

    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture: 3
    Non-Lecture: 0
    This course will examine philosophical problems raised by evolutionary theory, genetics and taxonomy. Questions to be addressed include: (a) Is biological theory reducible to chemistry and physics? (b) What is a species? Is there a single, correct way to classify organisms? (c) At what level does selection operate: individual organisms, groups, or “selfish genes”? (d) Does altruism exist in nature? (e) Can the evolutionary model usefully be applied outside of biology? In particular, is sociobiology a promising field of research, or merely an excuse for injustice? (f) Can there be such a thing as “scientific creationism”?

    Prerequisite(s): One course in biology or in philosophy.
    Offered: Not on a Regular Basis
  
  • PHIL 236 - Medicine and Morality


    2021-2022 Catalog Year

    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture: 3
    Non-Lecture: 0
    This is a non-technical, introductory course in bioethics which explores questions of value with regard to medicine, the provision of healthcare, the very notion of health, and bio-technology aimed at improving our lives. We will consider the role of values within medicine and healthcare fields, the methods by which we can make (bio)ethical evaluations and the major values/principles underlying contemporary bioethics as a field. The bulk of the course will involve focus on specific moral controversies in medicine and biotechnology. These controversies might include: the value of patient autonomy, the ethics of cosmetic surgery, medicine and sexuality, reproductive technology, and ethical issues in death and dying.

    Offered: Not on a Regular Basis
    Graded: N - Normal


  
  • PHIL 237 - Ethical Issues in Business


    2021-2022 Catalog Year

    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture: 3
    Non-Lecture: 0
    This course will introduce students to the central role of ethics in the conduct of business organizations and the people who administer them. Students will learn to identify ethical issues in business and to analyze them from the perspective of several philosophical moral traditions. We will consider ethical issues concerning both the overall economic system and the specific business areas of management, accounting, finance, and marketing. Students will be required to perform analyses of both philosophical readings and recent case-studies from the business world.

    Offered: Every Semester
  
  • PHIL 300 - Ancient Philosophy


    2021-2022 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 Semester
    Graded: N - Normal


  
  • PHIL 301 - Modern Philosophy


    2021-2022 Catalog Year

    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture: 3
    Non-Lecture: 0
    An examination of some of the fundamental ideas of philosophy in the modern period, with an emphasis on contributions to epistemology and metaphysics. 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 Semester
    Graded: N - Normal


  
  • PHIL 305 - Philosophy of Education


    2021-2022 Catalog Year

    Credit(s): 3
    Lecture: 3
    Non-Lecture: 0
    This course will familiarize students with past and present theories and issues in the philosophy of education. Students will consider why humans educate themselves and their children; what they think constitutes reality; what knowledge is worth having and how humans beings acquire it; what constitutes the good life and how human beings organize society to promote it; and how education can encourage people to reflect on what it means to live ethically. The course will allow philosophy students to apply their knowledge of the discipline to an important realm of practical problems and provide education students an opportunity to think both critically and creatively about educational practice.

    Prerequisite(s): PHIL 100  or INTD 203 .
    Crosslisted with:

    EDUC 305.


    Offered: Not on a Regular Basis
  
  • PHIL 315 - M/Chinese Philosophy


    2021-2022 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
    Graded: N - Normal


 

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