INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC CULTURES OF THE WORLD
An introductory ethnomusicology course providing a variety of ways to approach musics typically not covered in music history courses. Active engagement with these musics within their larger world contexts.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Engage with various musics on students' own terms Audience: Undergraduate 2. Speak and write clearly about what is heard. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Recognize and contextualize the several genres of music that represent each cultural area selected for study in the course Audience: Undergraduate 4. Think rigorously about how positionality, including your own, affects listening and knowledge practices Audience: Undergraduate 5. Have learned something about yourself -- strengths, weaknesses, biases, desires, tendencies, curiosities Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Engage with various musics on students' own terms Audience: Undergraduate 2. Speak and write clearly about what is heard. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Recognize and contextualize the several genres of music that represent each cultural area selected for study in the course Audience: Undergraduate 4. Think rigorously about how positionality, including your own, affects listening and knowledge practices Audience: Undergraduate 5. Have learned something about yourself -- strengths, weaknesses, biases, desires, tendencies, curiosities Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027
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Catalogue variants
- INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC CULTURES OF THE WORLD · 3 credits.