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2008-2009 Undergraduate Bulletin [Archived Bulletin]
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MATH 3720L - Lab: Introduction to Applied Mathematics
This lab must be taken concurrently with the MATH 3720 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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MATH 3890 - Number Theory
Goals: An introduction to number theory. This course will develop the properties of integers, especially the properties of prime numbers, starting from the Peano Axioms and show how the structure of prime numbers is reflected in the structure of the group of integers modulo n.
Content: Equivalence relations. Peano Axioms. Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic. Diophantine equations. Prime numbers. Gaussian integers. The group of integers modulo n. Fundamental Theorem of Finite Cyclic Groups.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1180.
While not a prerequisite for MATH 5890, this course is the first in a two semester sequence, along with MATH 5980, in modern algebra.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 3910 - Complex Analysis
Goals: An introduction to complex variables, including a study of the topology of the plane required.
Content: Properties of complex numbers and analytic functions of one complex variable. Power series. Cauchy’s theorem, and applications to integration. Applications.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 1180.
While not a prerequisite for MATH 5910, this course is the first in a two semester sequence, along with MATH 5910, in modern analysis.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5720 - Ordinary Differential Equations with Numerical Methods
Goals: To learn to determine both the qualitative and quantitative properties of those functions which satisfy ordinary differential equations, using both analytic and numerical techniques.
Content: Analytic methods of solution, numeric methods of solution, linear differential equations, series solutions, the Laplace transform, systems of differential equations, initial and boundary value problems, existence theory and applications.
Taught: Alternate years, fall.
Prerequisite: MATH 3320.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5810 - Probability and Mathematical Statistics
Goals: To gain an understanding of both probability and statistics as not merely collecting and organizing data but as the science of basing inferences on observed data and making decisions in the face of uncertainty. The student will be prepared to take the preliminary actuarial examination in probability and statistics.
Content: Probability distributions, mathematical expectation, random variables, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, regression and correlation, analysis of variance.
Taught: Alternate years, fall.
Prerequisite: MATH 1180.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5850 - Numerical Analysis
Crosslisted
(Also listed as CSCI 5850.)
Goals: To introduce the methods of modern computation as used in solving problems with the aid of a computer using various algorithms.
Content: Algorithms for the solution of equations in one variable, interpolation and polynomial approximation, numerical differentiation and integration, initial-value problems for differential equations, solution of linear systems by direct or iterative techniques and various methods of approximation.
Taught: Alternate years, fall.
Prerequisite: MATH 3320.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5890 - Modern Algebra
Goals: To continue the study of algebraic structures begun in MATH 3330 with the goal of seeing how the building of these mathematical models yields powerful tools to understand the global nature of mathematics.
Content: Development of the elementary concepts of groups, rings, and fields.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisites: MATH 3330 and MATH 3550.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5910 - Real Analysis
Goals: To learn the language, fundamental concepts, and standard theorems of analysis. To also learn how to reason deductively from explicit assumptions and definitions in mathematical analysis, thus developing analytic techniques for attacking problems that arise in applied mathematics. Recommended for students considering graduate school in mathematics.
Content: An introduction to real analysis with emphasis on proofs of theorems and on problem solving. Topics include properties of the real number system, functions, sequences, limits and continuity, differentiation, integration, and infinite series including sequences and series of functions.
Taught: Alternate years, fall.
Prerequisites: MATH 3330 and MATH 3550.
Credits: 4 credits
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MATH 5920 - Junior Seminar
Goals: The student will be introduced to ideas and issues that are outside of the regular undergraduate curriculum, studying how mathematics is used in academia and industry.
Content: Reviews of current research and projects of various mathematicians: senior math majors, guest lecturers, and department staff. Student presentations of topics from internships, independent studies, or honors projects.
Credits: 0.5 credit per term
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MATH 5930 - Senior Seminar
Goals: The student will be introduced to ideas and issues that are outside of the regular undergraduate curriculum, studying how mathematics is used in academia and industry.
Content: Reviews of current research and projects of various mathematicians: senior math majors, guest lecturers, and department staff. Student presentations of topics from internships, independent studies, or honors projects.
Credits: 0.5 credit per term
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MATH 5950 - Topics in Advanced Mathematics
Goals: To synthesize previous work in the various areas of mathematics with the goal of putting the areas in a historical perspective and of relating them to the question of what makes up mathematics.
Content: The content of the seminar varies from year to year depending on the instructor. Attention is paid to the history of mathematics and to filling gaps in the spectrum of mathematics presented at the undergraduate level.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisite: MATH 3550.
Credits: 4 credits
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MODL 1010 - The Language Phenomenon
Goals: To understand language, the uniquely human enterprise, and particularly the English language. To describe language—its sound patterns, its forms, its meanings, its structural patterns. To determine how languages are born, evolve, and die. To discern how both first and second languages are acquired.
Content: English phonetics, phonology, morphology, writing, syntax, semantics. Language both in its social context—dialects, slang, taboos, language acquisition—and in its historical context—philology and etymology. Class activities may include reading from Lewis Carroll, collecting of speech samples from sound tracks, media, and the street, creating a new language and analyzing word games.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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MODL 1020 - Language and Society
Goals: To examine how language reflects an individual’s or group’s status or power in society, social class, ethnic background, geographical or regional origins, political associations, and religious identity, as well as gender.
Content: Sociolinguistics examines urban complexities and emphasizes the effect of our attitudes on speech. Students discover their own idiolects and verbal repertoires, learn why Italians in New York might hypercorrect, why some men choose not to speak as well as women do (covert prestige), why we call someone “Dr.” one moment and “Jimmy” or “Jane” the next, and why we use taboo words. Our linguistic choices tell others how conservative or liberal, how religious, how sexist, how racist, or how status-conscious we are. Special attention is given to the origins of African-American English and its characteristics as reflected in literature.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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MODL 1030 - Language as Literature
Goals: To introduce students to the analysis and interpretation of literature, especially the literature of French, German, and Spanish speaking peoples.
Content: Representative samples of drama, prose, and poetry. All texts are in English.
Taught: Periodically.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 1020 - Elements of Music
Goals: To increase students’ understanding of musical language and construction and provide performance experience. To learn to read and perform elements of rhythm, pitch, and expression, students will sing, play the piano and percussion instruments, move, compose, and improvise.
Content: Beats and subdivisions, rhythm patterns, simple and compound meters, pitch in treble and bass clefs, intervals, scales and key signatures, primary chords.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 1030 - Music in World Cultures
Goals: To introduce students to the music of diverse cultures.
Content: Classical music styles from India, China, Africa, and other cultures will be contrasted with music from Europe, the Americas, and other parts of the world. All will be related to current classical and popular traditions.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 1070 - Beginning Class Voice
Goal: Learn basic vocal production and singing techniques.
Content: Breathing, sound production, diction, vowel placement, ensemble basics.
May be repeated for credit.
Credits: 2 credits
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MUS 1080 - Music History Abroad
Goals: To study the composers, compositions, and styles on-site through traveling in Italy, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, and other countries.
Content: Italian music from Palestrina to Verdi; music of Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, Liszt, and others. MUS 1080 can count for breadth of study for music majors.
Taught: January term and extended May term.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 1100 - Introduction to Music
Goals: To establish a vocabulary for musical understanding and discussion; to establish a foundational knowledge of Western Classical music history; to become familiar with selected works from this repertoire; to introduce students to traditional musics of other selected cultures.
Content: Recordings, supplemented with readings.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 1130 - University Women’s Chorale
Content: A women’s chorus performing a wide variety of secular and sacred repertory from ancient to modern. One or two concerts are given each semester.
Credits: 1 credit
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MUS 1210 - Beginning Class Piano
Goals: To develop basic keyboard skills and music fundamentals.
Content: Music notation, sight reading, intervals, rhythm and meter, scale and triad building, harmonization, elementary repertory, and improvisation.
Taught: Annually, fall term.
Counts towards breadth of study requirement for music performance majors.
Credits: 2 credits
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MUS 1220 - Advanced Beginning Class Piano
Goals: Continuation of MUS 1210. This course prepares students for intermediate class piano study and Music Theory.
Content: Scales and triads, chord progressions, sight-reading, transposition, elementary repertory, and improvisation.
Taught: Annually, spring term.
Prerequisite: MUS 1210 or equivalent training.
Counts towards breadth of study requirement for music performance majors.
Credits: 2 credits
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MUS 1230 - Rhythmic Solfege
Goals: Develop aural comprehension and the ability to sight-read rhythms and tonal music.
Content: Intervals, scales, diatonic melodies, functional harmony, beats and subdivisions, rhythm patterns, simple and compound meters.
Taught: Annually.
Counts towards breadth of study requirement for music performance majors.
Credits: 2 credits
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MUS 1250 - Invitation to the Opera
Goals: To introduce students to the practice and history of opera.
Content: The chronology of opera in western music will be described. Examples of live and video-taped performance will be examined critically.
Taught: Spring, alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 1410 - Indonesian Music and Cultures
Crosslisted
(Listed under Anthropology; ANTH 1410).
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 1415 - Africa, Music, and Cultural Production
Crosslisted
(Listed under Anthropology: ANTH 3410).
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MUS 1420 - African Ensemble
Crosslisted
(Listed under Anthropology: ANTH 3420)
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MUS 1750 - Class Guitar
Goals: To learn basic folk and classical guitar techniques.
Content: Basic technical skills and varied guitar literature.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Credits: 2 credits
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MUS 3070 - Advanced Class Voice
Goals: Continuation of MUS 1070: Beginning Class Voice; work on more advanced vocal production and singing techniques.
Content: Breathing, sound production, diction, vowel placement, ensemble singing.
Prerequisite: MUS 1070 or equivalent training (permission of instructor)
May be repeated for credit.
Credits: 2 credits
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MUS 3080 - Percussion Ensemble
Goal: To develop techniques of instrumental playing and interpersonal communication that will improve a student’s ability to collaborate with others in the process of making music.
Content: Students will practice musical literature from a variety of eras and genres, written for/transcribed for the ensemble. They will experience collaborative small group work towards the common goal in interpreting the music with accuracy and affect and preparing it for performance.
Prerequisites: Membership in Winds, Orchestra, or Lessons, or permission of instructor.
May be repeated for credit.
Credits: 0.5 credits
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MUS 3090 - Flute Choir
Goal: To develop techniques of instrumental playing and interpersonal communication that will improve a student’s ability to contribute, lead, and collaborate with others in the process of making music.
Content: Under the guidance of the flute instructor, students will practice musical literature from a variety of eras and genres, written for/transcribed for flute ensembles. They will experience collaborative small group work towards the common goal of interpreting the music with accuracy and affect and preparing it for performance.
Prerequisites: Membership in Winds, Orchestra, or Performance Studies, or permission of instructor.
Students must supply their own instrument.
May be repeated for credit.
Credits: 0.5 credits
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MUS 3120 - A Cappella Choir
Content: Performance of sacred and secular repertory from the sixteenth century to the present. Several concerts are given each semester, with international tours every four years.
Prerequisite: Members chosen by audition.
Credits: 1 credit
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MUS 3140 - Hamline Winds
Content: Musical experience for woodwind, brass, and percussion players through rehearsal and performance of original wind band literature as well as quality transcriptions. Repertoire covers three centuries. Ensemble experience includes small chamber ensembles (3 to 10 players) of like instrumentation, mixed instrumentation, and sectional choirs.
Prerequisites: None. Placement auditions at start of term.
Credits: 1 credit
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MUS 3150 - Jazz Ensemble
Content: Students study, improvise, and perform music in the jazz and popular idiom, with both vocal and instrumental combos formed from the larger group. Performance opportunities include the annual Swing Dance, high school and college JazzFests, and local venues.
Prerequisites: None. Placement auditions at start of term.
Credits: 1 credit
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MUS 3160 - Hamline Orchestra
Content: Students study and perform orchestral repertoire from the 18th century to the present. In string and wind sectionals, students explore orchestral excerpts, conducting, and repertoires for single families of instruments.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Credits: 1 credit
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MUS 3170 - Chamber Music
Content: Various small ensembles of strings, woodwind, brass, percussion, and keyboard. Designed for advanced players, chamber music requires individual preparation for rehearsals, coaching sessions, and performances.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Credits: 1 credit
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MUS 3190 - Accompanying
Content: Coaching in the piano accompaniment of vocal and instrumental performers for recitals and juries.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Credits: 1 credit
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MUS 3210 - Intermediate Class Piano
Goals: Development of keyboard and musical skills. This course prepares students for the piano proficiency examination.
Content: Intermediate repertory, sight reading, triads and inversions, chord progressions, scales and arpeggios, transposition, harmonization, and improvisation.
Taught: Annually, fall term.
Prerequisite: MUS 1220 or equivalent training.
Credits: 2 credits
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MUS 3220 - Advanced Class Piano
Goals: Development of repertoire, technique, and sight-playing. This course prepares students for private performance studies.
Content: Intermediate repertoire, scales and arpeggios in multiple octaves, triads and inversions, chord progressions, and harmonization from lead sheets, and improvisation.
Taught: Annually, spring term.
Prerequisite: MUS 3210 or equivalent training.
Credits: 2 credits
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MUS 3300 - Topics in Instrumental Literature
Goals: To provide students with a comprehensive knowledge of the historical development, major forms, major composers, stylistic changes and technical developments of particular areas of music. (Chamber music, symphonies, piano music, etc.)
Content: Representative compositions from Renaissance era through the present. The general styles, individual composers and compositions are studied in detail through readings, score identification, and listening identification.
Taught: Alternate years
(topics rotate–see current semester schedule).
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 3310 - Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Music
Goals: Designed for nonmajors and majors, the course will explore diverse issues in early music. The dominance of the Church, the rise of the “secular,” the impact of the doctrines of “courtly love,” and the contexts of the other arts and politics; these and others will be studied in their relationship to specific musical works of the period.
Content: Representative compositions from Gregorian chant to Palestrina.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 3320 - Topics in Baroque Music
Goals: Designed for non-majors and majors, the course will explore issues in 17th and 18th century music. The domination of language and its impact on opera, the age of Kepler, Newton, and Galileo running parallel to the new flowering of instrumental music; these and others will be studied in their relationship to specific musical works of the period.
Content: Representative compositions from Monteverdi to Bach and Handel.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 3330 - Topics in Classical and Romantic Music
Goals: Designed for non-majors and majors, the course will explore issues in 18th and 19th century music. The impact of the enlightenment and the American and French Revolutions, the differentiation of concepts of Classicism and Romanticism, the import of late 19th century thought (Darwin, Marx, Freud); these and others will be studied in their relationship to specific musical works of the period.
Content: Music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Billings, Brahms, Wagner, and others.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 3340 - Topics in Twentieth-Century Music
Goals: Designed for nonmajors and majors, the course will explore issues in the music of the 20th century. The impact of wars, of political systems, of technology, of gender and race, the import of expressionism, of impressionism, of technical systems, and of the conflict between classical and popular cultures; these and others will be studied in their relationship to specific musical works of the period.
Content: American music, serialism, electronic music, new structural principles.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 3345 - The International Tradition: From Folk to Classical
Goals: To explore the tradition of music as expressed in the original language of folk music and developed into the classical artistic heritage of five major national areas (one per semester).
Content: Five major national areas vary by semester (Argentina, Germany/Austria, France, Russia, Italy).
Prerequisites: MUS 1020 and one year of language study in the topic area.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 3350 - Music History I
Goals: Provide students with a rigorous knowledge of the chronology of music history. Ability to read music required.
Content: A detailed survey from the time of the Greeks to the early 18th century.
Taught: Alternate years, fall term.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 3360 - Music History II
Goals: Provide students with a rigorous knowledge of the chronology of music history. Ability to read music required.
Content: A detailed survey from the early 18th century to the mid-19th century.
Taught: Alternate years, spring term.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 3370 - Music History III
Goals: Provide students with a rigorous knowledge of the chronology of music history. Ability to read music required.
Content: A detailed survey from the mid-19th century to the present.
Taught: Alternate years, fall term.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 3400 - Dalcroze Eurhythmics
Goals: Develop active listening skills, coordination of body and mind, internalization of rhythm, melody, harmony, and improvisation skills.
Content: Eurhythmics exercises in beat, twice as fast/slow, rhythmic patterns, simple and compound meter, complementary rhythm, phrase, measure shape (anacrusis-crusis-metacrusis)
Taught: Annually, fall term.
Prerequisite: Familiarity with note reading.
Credits: 2 credits
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MUS 3410 - Theory of Music I
Goals: Develop a basic knowledge of tonal harmony.
Content: Musical analysis, basic harmonic progression, principles of voice leading, elements of composition, sight-singing, and aural training including computer-based instruction.
Taught: Annually, fall term.
Prerequisites: MUS 1210 and 1230. MUS 1230 may be taken concurrently.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 3420 - Theory of Music II
Goals: Intermediate development of written and aural skills.
Content: Harmonic progression, seventh chords, modulation, composition in small forms, and aural training including harmonic dictation. Elements of style analysis.
Taught: Annually, spring term.
Prerequisite: MUS 3410, 1220.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 3430 - Theory of Music III
Goals: To develop advanced skills in theory for music majors.
Content: Chromatic harmony, analysis of musical forms, style analysis, and aural analysis and composition.
Taught: Alternate years, fall term.
Prerequisite: MUS 3420.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 3450 - Arranging, Orchestration, and Computer Notation
Goals: Develop skills in arranging and orchestrating music through the use of the latest computer notation software.
Content: Techniques of arranging music for various combinations of instruments and voices using computer notation.
Prerequisite: MUS 3420.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 3460 - Instrumental Score Analysis and Conducting
Goals: To acquire a knowledge of the conductor’s multifaceted role in instrumental ensemble music making and to gain practical experience with rehearsal techniques and score interpretation.
Content: Refine the gestures of conducting; become familiar with many orchestra and band instruments; develop rehearsal skills; develop score reading, transposition, and score preparation and knowledge of the literature.
Taught: Alternate years, spring term.
Prerequisite: MUS 3410.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 3500 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Voice
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3510 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Piano
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3520 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Organ
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3530 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Harpsichord
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3540 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Guitar
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3550 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Flute
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3560 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Oboe
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3570 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Clarinet
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3580 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Saxophone
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3590 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Bassoon
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3600 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Violin
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3610 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Viola
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3620 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Cello
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3630 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Double Bass and/or Jazz Bass
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3640 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Trumpet
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3650 - Advanced Level Performance Studies French Horn
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3660 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Trombone
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3670 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Tuba
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3680 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Baritone Horn
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3690 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Harp
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3700 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Percussion
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 3710 - Advanced Level Performance Studies Composition
Goals: Develop solo performance ability.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight-reading ability and participation in an ensemble (ensemble experience not required for Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Harp, Percussion, or Composition). Audition required.
Note: Student may not register for private lessons at other ACTC colleges.
Credits: Two credits for nonmajors (12 half-hour lessons). Upon declaration of major, four-credit lessons are recommended (12 one-hour lessons).
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MUS 5120 - Renaissance
Content: Advanced a cappella choral repertory from Renaissance, Baroque, and Contemporary literature, designed for vocal majors to rehearse and perform at an intense level with emphasis on individual preparation.
Prerequisites: Annual audition and consent of instructor.
Credits: 1 credit
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MUS 5170 - Chamber Music Advanced
Content: Various small advanced ensembles of strings, woodwind, brass, percussion, and keyboard. Designed for participants in the Artist Diploma certificate program.
Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor.
Credits: 2 credits
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MUS 5180 - Oratorio Society
Goals: To develop advanced vocal ensemble ability and performance techniques.
Prerequisites: Intermediate performing and sight reading ability and participation in an ensemble. Members chosen by audition.
Credits: 1 credit
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MUS 5930 - Senior Musical Arts Project
Goals: Develop a paper, recordings, or another project appropriate to the discipline of music.
Content: Student works closely with instructor to develop, research, or otherwise prepare this capstone project.
Taught: Every semester.
Prerequisites: Senior music major with musical arts concentration.
Credits: 4 credits
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MUS 5940 - Senior Recital
Goals: To prepare and perform a recital representative of a student’s best work.
Content: Together, teacher and student select appropriate repertoire to be performed.
Taught: Every semester.
Prerequisite: Senior music major or consent of instructor.
A writing-intensive component may be selected with permission from the faculty advisor.
Credits: 4 credits
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PHED 1010 - Beginning Strength Training
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the skills, strategies, and rules to be able to enjoy participation for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Indoor activity.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
Credits: 0.5 credit
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PHED 1030 - Beginning Tae Kwon Do
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the skills, strategies, and rules to be able to enjoy participation for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Indoor activity.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
Credits: 1 credit
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PHED 1040 - Self Defense
Goals: This course will focus on practical techniques for self-defense drawn from Shaolin Kenpo Karate. The course will also improve physical conditioning and instruct students in recognizing and avoiding threats.
Content: Through solo and partnered exercises, as well as forms, students will learn how to strike and defend using a wide range of techniques. Defenses to specific attacks will be included, such as being grabbed from the front or behind, and defending against various punches and weapons attacks.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
Credits: 1 credit
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PHED 1060 - Racquetball
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the skills, strategies, and rules to be able to enjoy participation for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Indoor activity.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
Credits: 0.5 credit
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PHED 1100 - Intermediate Strength Training
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the skills, strategies, and rules to be able to enjoy participation for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Indoor activity.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
Credits: 0.5 credit
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PHED 1140 - Beginning Golf
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the skills, strategies, and rules to be able to enjoy participation for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Outdoor Activity
Credits: 0.5 credit
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PHED 1150 - Beginning Tennis
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the skills, strategies, and rules to be able to enjoy participation for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Outdoor Activity
Credits: 0.5 credit
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PHED 1160 - Jogging
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the skills, strategies, and rules to be able to enjoy participation for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Outdoor Activity
Credits: 0.5 credit
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PHED 1390 - Scuba Diving
Goals: To acquire the skills and knowledge to become a certified diver.
Content: Scientific principles and techniques of scuba diving. Marine physics, physiology, and medical knowledge are studied to ensure a safe exposure to an underwater environment.
Aquatic Activity
Credits: 2 credits
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PHED 1400 - Fundamental Concepts of Physical Education
Goals: To acquaint the student with an overview of the physical education profession, its associated disciplines and subdisciplines, and anticipated career opportunities open to physical education graduates. A major emphasis is placed on acquainting the student with the anatomy of the skeletal and muscular systems.
Content: Philosophical, physiological, psychological, historical, and sociological foundations of physical education with major emphasis upon anatomy, muscular origin, insertion, and action.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 2 credits
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PHED 1540 - Individual Activities
Goals: To prepare prospective teachers to teach the activities listed below.
Content: Teaching methods, knowledge, the execution of skills, analysis of movement, officiating, knowledge of rules, and strategies of the activities listed.
Activities: Secondary teaching methods for the individual activities of physical fitness, aerobics/conditioning, gymnastics, tumbling, self-defense/wrestling.
Taught: Biennially.
Professional Activity Course for Teachers
Credits: 2 credits
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PHED 1550 - Rhythms
Goals: To prepare prospective teachers to teach the activities listed below.
Content: Teaching methods, knowledge, the execution of skills, analysis of movement, officiating, knowledge of rules, and strategies of the activities listed.
Activities: Fundamentals of folk dance, square dance, social, and modern dance.
Professional Activity Course for Teachers
Credits: 4 credits
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PHED 1570 - Lifetime Sports
Goals: To prepare prospective teachers to teach the activities listed below.
Content: Teaching methods, knowledge, the execution of skills, analysis of movement, officiating, knowledge of rules, and strategies of the activities listed.
Activities: Tennis, badminton, racquetball, handball, bowling, recreational games, downhill and cross-country skiing, outdoor education, golf, and archery.
Professional Activity Course for Teachers
Credits: 4 credits
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PHED 1650 - Team Sports
Goals: To prepare prospective teachers to teach the activities listed below.
Content: Teaching methods, knowledge, the execution of skills, analysis of movement, officiating, knowledge of rules, and strategies of the activities listed.
Activities: Floor hockey, soccer, speedball, team handball, basketball, volleyball, softball, lacrosse, football, track and field, and cross-country.
Professional Activity Course for Teachers
Credits: 4 credits
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PHED 1800 - Fitness
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the skills, strategies, and rules to be able to enjoy participation for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Outdoor Activity
This course is not repeatable for credit.
Credits: 0.5 credit
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PHED 3030 - Intermediate Tae Kwon Do
Goals: To acquire enough mastery of the basic physical fitness activities to encourage physical fitness activity for a lifetime. To understand the principles of physical fitness.
Indoor Activity
Credits: 1 credit
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PHED 3340 - Lifeguard Training
This is the American Red Cross Lifeguarding course. The content includes surveillance skills, rescue skills, First Aid and CPR training, and professional responsibilities of the lifeguard.
Prerequisite: American Red Cross swimming skills test.
Professional Activity Course for Teachers
Credits: 4 credits
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PHED 3700 - Coaching and Theory of Swimming
Goals: To prepare prospective coaches to effectively coach sports teams in public and private schools as well as community youth leagues.
Content: The various strategies, techniques, theories of team play; methods of organization, sports psychology, biomechanics, exercise physiology, and training theory specific to swimming.
Credits: 2 credits
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