MSC 100 – Introduction to Western Music (3 credit hours)
Survey of Western musical styles, composers, and selected works from the Middle Ages through the present day. (D) First Session Course:
Survey of Western musical styles, composers, and selected works from the Middle Ages through the present day. (D) First Session Course:
Survey of the history of popular music, focusing on the United States. The course examines influential music genres and individual artists as well as situating their repertories within sociocultural, political, economic, and technological contexts. (CD, D, POR) First Session Course:
Survey of music, history, and culture from selected societies around the world. (CD, D, POR, SWC) Second Session Course:
Examines the nature of happiness and meaning and the epistemic, ethical, and political issues surrounding their pursuit. Focus varies by instructor. (D) First Session Course:
A study of ethical issues that arise in health care and the life sciences such as informed consent, experimentation on human subjects, truth-telling, confidentiality, abortion, and the allocation of scarce medical resources. Cannot receive credit for both BHM 100 and PHI 161. (D) Second Session Course:
A study of pressing ethical issues in contemporary life, such as abortion, euthanasia, animal rights, affirmative action, marriage, cloning, pornography, and capital punishment. (D) Second Session Course:
Field work in a public or private setting with related readings and an analytical paper under the direction of a faculty member. Students initiate the project and secure the permission of an appropriate instructor. Normally one course in an appropriate subfield is taken prior to […]
General introduction to the field; social organization and disorganization, socialization, culture, social change, social inequality, and other aspects. (D) First Session Courses:
Data collection and visualization, exploratory analysis, introductory probability, inference techniques for one variable, and statistical literacy. Lab. (D, QR, QDA) First Session Courses: Quantitative Reasoning