NOTE: Certain courses and programs require the use and/or handling of hazardous materials or equipment. Students are expected to follow all safety instructions and to take the required safety precautions including, but not limited to, the use of personal protection equipment (PPE) during the course or program to prevent incidences of injury to self or other students.
Music Ensembles
MUEN 3200 - Concert Chorale
0 to 1 credit hourParticipation in all phases of chorus, including rehearsals and appearances.
0 or 1 credit hourParticipation in all phases of the group, including rehearsals and appearances. Reading of early English madrigals and traditional American music.
0 to 1 credit hourPreparation and public performance of opera. Technical and performing aspects of opera production as they pertain to light and grand opera.
1 credit hourPrerequisite: MUTH 1120. Emphasizes basic jazz performance practices in an ensemble setting. Training in improvisation will include melodic paraphrase, ear-training, jazz scales and arpeggios, the study of transcriptions, and exposure to recorded examples of various jazz styles. Basic musicianship issues such as practicing, transposition, and common performance practices will be covered. Performances will showcase the concepts learned throughout the semester. May be repeated for two credits.
3 credit hoursA study of culture and music through a chronological survey of styles, genres, and composers of Western art music and through the comparative study of various non-Western musical practices.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: MUHL 1610 with grade of C- or better. Second required music history course for Music majors. A survey of Western art music from antiquity through the eighteenth century, including Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: MUHL 1610 with grade of C- or better. Third required music history course for music majors. A survey of Western art music of the eighteenth through twenty-first century, including Classical, Romantic, Modern, and Postmodern periods.
MUHL 3670 - Studies in North American Popular Music
3 credit hoursClose study of one or more regional musical cultures of popular music in North America. Focuses on cultural, historical, economic, and political forces that have shaped the genres under consideration as well as issues of class, race, gender, migration, colonialism, identity, and resistance. Offers a range of experiences with the music, emphasizing its practices, sustainability, stylistic features, instruments, and cultural contexts.
3 credit hoursInvestigates one or more regional musical cultures of Latin America with attention to the cultural, historical, economic, and political forces that shape musical genres, as well as issues of class, race, gender, migration, colonialism, identity, and resistance.
3 credit hoursTechnical features of various styles from the inception of jazz to present. Introduction of jazz style periods, performance practices, stylistic features, and artists.
3 credit hoursExamines various Middle Eastern cultural soundscapes from an ethnomusicological perspective, including the relationship between folk, classical, and popular musical traditions and music’s role in religious experience.
3 credit hoursStudy of the history and literature of jazz music including African roots, developments and aspects of style periods, and the contemporary state of jazz. Listening and analysis.
3 credit hours(Same as ANTH 4550 and RIM 4550.) Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1020. An ethnomusicological investigation of how hip-hop reacts to and informs mainstream culture through its primary art forms: music, visual art, and dance. Major themes and issues that cut across hip-hop’s history, including issues of style and performance, gender, race, politics, and religion addressed.
MUHL 4630 - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Music
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. A survey of Western classical music during the Baroque and Classic periods; emphasis on topics selected by instructor.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. A survey of Western classical music during the Romantic period; emphasis on topics selected by instructor.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. A survey of twentieth century Western art music; emphasis on topics selected by instructor. Examines the major developments of music during the late Romantic, Modern, and Postmodern eras.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. A survey of American music from the colonial era to the present; added emphasis on topics selected by the instructor. Examines folk, popular, art, sacred, and secular traditions within their cultural and historical contexts.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. Examination of choral literature from the Renaissance to the present. Program selection. Analysis of choral pieces.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. Basic repertory of Italian airs, German lieder, French art songs, and solo vocal works of other nationalistic schools, as well as English and American song literature.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. A chronological study of organ literature from the Medieval period to the present. Objectives include knowledge of the repertoire and composers and historical perspective of styles and organ building.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. A chronological study of brass literature from the Renaissance period to the present. Objectives include knowledge of the repertoire and composers and historical perspective of styles, types, and common performance practice.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. A chronological study of percussion literature from the nineteenth century to the present. Objectives include knowledge of the repertoire and composers and historical perspective of styles, types, and common performance practice.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. A chronological study of string literature from the nineteenth century to the present. Objectives include knowledge of the repertoire and its composers and historical perspective of styles, types, and common performance practice.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. A chronological study of woodwind literature from the Renaissance period to the present. Objectives include knowledge of the repertoire and composers and historical perspective of styles, types, and common performance practice.
2 credit hoursA chronological and topical overview of African American musicians and composers and the primary genres of African American art music from slavery to the present.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1020. Examines and celebrates women’s musical activities in a variety of capacities and musical traditions through perspectives of a variety of gender theories. May be taken for Women’s and Gender Studies minor credit.
3 credit hours(Same as THEA 4840.) Prerequisite: Junior standing. A comprehensive history of musicals from the 1840s to the present that explores the effects of culture, economics, and politics of each era on musical theatre.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. Survey of the basic literature of the harpsichord and the piano from the seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century. Live performance, analysis, and research.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: MUHL 4850 or permission of instructor. Survey of the basic literature of the piano from the nineteenth century to the present. Live performance, listening, analysis, and research.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. Survey of the standard literature of the single-action and double-action pedal harp from the 18th century to early 21st century. Live performance, analysis, and research.
MUPD 2180 - Diction for Singers I (English and Latin)
2 credit hoursLecture demonstration course for familiarization of the International Phonetic Alphabet and correct pronunciation of texts in English and Latin.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: MUPD 2180. Lecture demonstration course for familiarization of the International Phonetic Alphabet and correct pronunciation of texts in Italian.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: MUPD 2180. Lecture demonstration course for the familiarization of the International Phonetic Alphabet and correct pronunciation of texts in German.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: MUPD 2180. Lecture demonstration course for familiarization of the International Phonetic Alphabet and correct pronunciation of texts in French.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. Techniques and methods of teaching jazz studies including the training of jazz ensembles and combos.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. Advanced study of conceptual, physiological, acoustical, and pedagogical methods and materials used in the teaching of beginning, intermediate, and advanced brass students.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. Advanced study of conceptual, physiological, acoustical, and pedagogical methods and materials used in the teaching of beginning, intermediate, and advanced percussion students.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. Advanced study of conceptual, physiological, acoustical, and pedagogical methods and materials used in the teaching of beginning, intermediate, and advanced string students.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. Advanced study of conceptual, physiological, acoustical, and pedagogical methods and materials used in the teaching of beginning, intermediate, and advanced woodwind students.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Surveys and examines harp methods and schools of technique of the double-action pedal harp. Development of skills and concepts for teaching harp. Research, analysis, lesson observation, and supervised teaching.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. Techniques for teaching the fundamentals of singing. Vocalises and repertoire. Physical aspects of singing.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. Instruction in the principles of teaching organ–(1) manual and pedal techniques, (2) organ methods, and (3) organ repertoire of varying degrees of difficulty and of all period styles from pre-Bach through twentieth century.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. The various technical and philosophical approaches in teaching piano. Examines teaching repertory from beginning through the late-elementary levels. Supervised teaching.
1 credit hourPrerequisite: Permission of instructor. Examines class piano texts and materials. Develops skills and concepts for teaching class piano. Course observation and supervised teaching.
3 credit hoursFor those needing remedial work before enrolling in Theory MUTH 1110. Topics covered include music reading in G and F clefs, intervals, major and minor scales; rhythm.
4 credit hoursPrerequisite: MUTH 1000 with grade of C- or higher or satisfactory score on theory diagnostic exam. Harmonic tonality and fixed-do solfège through chorale analysis and harmonizations of given bass lines. Major and minor scales and harmonizations through secondary function. Meets for five hours per week.
4 credit hoursPrerequisite: MUTH 1110. Harmonic tonality and fixed-do solfège through chorale analysis and harmonizations of given bass lines. Modal scales, harmonization, and analysis through the augmented sixth. Meets for five hours per week.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: MUTH 1120. Harmonic tonality and twentieth-century vocabularies. Nineteenth-century chromaticism. Meets for four hours per week.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: MUTH 2120 with C- or better. Review and continuation of contrapuntal techniques. Canon, imitation, various contrapuntal devices, inventions, and beginning fugue. Analysis and some degree of original work.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: MUTH 1120. Exploration of the harmonic syntax, melodic construction, and song forms in jazz music. Analysis, listening, original composition, and practice hearing jazz chords and progressions.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: MUTH 2120. Binary and tenary forms, simple rondos and sonatinas progressing to sonata form, large rondos, theme and variations, art song, and free forms. Stylistic analysis and study of devices and materials from early to contemporary periods.
2 credit hoursPrerequisite: MUTH 2120. Compass and tonal qualities of band and orchestra instruments; transposition. Fundamentals of arranging for various instrumental groupings.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: MUTH 1120 or permission of instructor. Basic tools of jazz improvisation including chord/scale relationships, melodic construction, and practice techniques. In-class playing over blues, rhythm changes, and other standard jazz progressions. Elements of the bebop style. Preparation of playing exercises and several solo transcriptions.
MUTH 4190 - Principles and Practices of Electronic Music
3 credit hours(Same as RIM 4190.) Prerequisites: RI majors - admission to candidacy and RIM 1230 or MUTH 1110; others-RIM 3010, RIM 1230, or MUTH 1110 or permission of instructor. An introduction to synthesizer programming and the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) with emphasis on history, theory, and application. Hands-on activities include synthesizer programming with virtual instruments and MIDI sequencing using a digital audio workstation. Laboratory required.
MUTH 4290 - MIDI Sequencing and Virtual Instruments
3 credit hours(Same as RIM 4290). Prerequisites: RI majors - admission to candidacy and RIM 4910/MUTH 4910; others - RIM 4190/MUTH 4190 or permission of instructor. An advanced hands-on course with an emphasis on MIDI sequencing and virtual instruments within Pro Tools, Reason, and other music production software. Drum machines, synthesizers, samplers, and other electronic instruments used to create a commercial music track. Laboratory required.
MUTH 4590 - Computer Based Scoring for Visual Media
3 credit hours(Same as RIM 4590.) Prerequisites: RI majors - admission to candidacy, RIM 4190/MUTH 4190 and either RIM 3300 or RIM 4290/MUTH 4290; others - RIM 4190/MUTH 4190 and either RIM 3300 or RIM 4290/MUTH 4290; or permission of instructor. Writing music for visual media using the capabilities of a computer workstation. Introduces compositional techniques utilizing Macintosh sequencing software and QuickTime video playback in combination with synthesizers and sample playback programs. Concepts include synchronization of music to picture, tempo selection, sound source selection/manipulation, and analysis of the dramatic content of a scene. Laboratory required.
1 credit hourExposes the novice nursing student to the profession of nursing. Concept of professionalism explored and related to nursing. Includes a brief historical review of nursing and nursing theories. Professional values, practice standards, informatics, and communication with health care professionals introduced. Legal implications for nursing explored.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: BIOL 2010/BIOL 2011 and BIOL 2020/BIOL 2021; accepted into upper-division nursing. Corequisite: NURS 3040. Principles and techniques required for the assessment and analysis of data. Normal assessment findings and selected abnormal findings studied. Cultural variations and assessment variations across the lifespan explored.
1 credit hourPrerequisites: BIOL 2010/BIOL 2011 and BIOL 2020/BIOL 2021; accepted into upper-division nursing. Corequisite: NURS 3030. Opportunity to practice the basic principles and techniques required for the assessment and analysis of data. Normal assessment findings in the adult as well as selected abnormal findings studied. Cultural variations and assessment variations across the lifespan explored. Two-hour laboratory.
2 credit hoursIntroduces students to basic clinical skills required for the provision of care prior to progression to NURS 3350. Four hour lab each week.
1 credit hourPreviews basic math calculations as they relate to computing doses of medication in all forms. Introduces basic medication administration concepts. Passing a final with 100% accuracy will be required to be successful in the completion of this course and to progress in the nursing program.
4 credit hoursPrerequisites: NURS 3000, NURS 3010, NURS 3030, NURS 3040, NURS 3041, and NURS 3042. Corequisite: NURS 3360. Introduces nursing care concepts necessary to support basic care of clients across the lifespan; foundation for subsequent nursing courses. Four hours lecture.
NURS 3380 - Caring for Clients with Mental Health Alterations
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: NURS 3000, NURS 3010, NURS 3030, NURS 3040, NURS 3041, NURS 3042. Corequisite: NURS 3390 . Provides students with experience communicating and providing care to a variety of patients experiencing mental health issues. Opportunity for students to learn theoretical concepts relating to mental health and psychiatric nursing. Interpersonal and group communication, psychopathology, and legal and ethical issues explored. Methods used in providing nursing care for clients with alterations in mental health presented. Interdisciplinary health care team and its function in the psychiatric setting explored. Three hours lecture.
2 credit hoursPrerequisites: NURS 3000, NURS 3010, NURS 3030, NURS 3040, NURS 3041, NURS 3042. Corequisite: NURS 3380. Provides students with experience communicating and providing care to a variety of patients experiencing mental health issues. Four hours laboratory per week for duration of course.
4 credit hoursPrerequisites: NURS 3170, NURS 3350, NURS 3360, NURS 3380, and NURS 3390. Corequisite: NURS 3540. Professional nursing care in a variety of settings for the adult client with simple and chronic health problems. Four hours lecture.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: NURS 3170, NURS 3350, NURS 3360, NURS 3380, and NURS 3390. Corequisite: NURS 3530. Applying the nursing process in a clinical setting with the adult client experiencing acute and chronic health deviations. Sixteen hours clinical/lab per week for seven weeks.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: NURS 3170, NURS 3350, NURS 3360, NURS 3380, and NURS 3390. Corequisite: NURS 3560. Incorporates the nursing process and critical thinking skills into the professional nursing care of the childbearing female and the family. Focuses on health promotion, prevention, and adaptation for the childbearing client. Three hours lecture.
NURS 3560 - Caring for the Childbearing Family-Clinical
2 credit hoursPrerequisites: NURS 3170, NURS 3350, NURS 3360, NURS 3380, and NURS 3390. Corequisite: NURS 3550. Nursing process for applying the clinical application and principles of nursing and family theory to childbearing families. Focuses on health promotion, prevention, and adaptation for childbearing families. Approximately 12 hours clinical/lab per week for seven weeks.