"This is an Explorations course in the Humanities and Fine Arts in the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts and the School of Music and Dance. Completing this course will help you to do the following in greater depth: 1) analyze written, visual, or performed texts in the humanities and fine arts with sensitivity to their diverse cultural contexts and historical moments; 2) describe various aesthetic and other value systems and the ways they are communicated across time and cultures; 3) identify issues in the humanities that have personal and global relevance; 4) demonstrate the ability to approach complex problems and ask complex questions drawing upon knowledge of the humanities."
General Information
Availability
The World Music in Contemporary course content is available from any computer using a World Wide Web browser. Students enrolled in the Music 345 course are required to have a functioning e-mail address.
Class and Concert Attendance
Students are responsible for attending each class meeting and each concert associated with the course. Grades will suffer, if students do not attend course events. Each absence from a concert will result in a 2% reduction in the student's overall percentage grade.
Course Description
Folk, ancient, and modern art and folk music of world cultures, including traditional music of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the United States and Europe, as they relate to contemporary culture. Concert attendance required. Prerequisites: Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.C., Humanities.
Course Number: 345
Units: 3
Instructor: Jack Logan, Ph.D., Professor of Music
Office: SDSU School of Music and Dance Building, Room 222
Telephone: 619-594-2427
eMail: jack.logan@sdsu.edu
Office Hours: Mondays: 12 noon -1 p.m. or By Appointment
Type of Course: Lecture/Concert/Multimedia
Meeting Days and Hours
Click the Event Schedule for a list of all course events.
Lectures
Class meets on the following schedule in the Music and Dance Building, Room M113 (Rhapsody Hall) or M245 during the semester. Attendance is expected.
Section 1: MW, 08:00 - 09:50 a.m.
MUSIC††345†20,†A,†L 1 23295 World Music Contemp Life 3 0800†0950 †M M-113 Logan,†JD 110†/†110
Section 2: MW, 10:00 - 11:50 a.m.
MUSIC††345†20,†A,†L 2 23306 World Music Contemp Life 3 1000†1150 †M M-245 Logan,†JD 65†/†65
Students in all Sections of Music 345 meet in Smith Recital Hall on a NON-RESERVED SEAT basis selected Monday evenings from 6 to 6:50 p.m. or 7:30 to 8:20 p.m.
Music in Our World, Jack Logan, Ph.D., Author/Editor, The textbook is available on-line only.
The Multimedia Lab. may be used this semester to "sign-in" to the student database for student record-keeping purposes and to study course content.
Document Your Classroom, Concert, Music Listening, and Multimedia Lab. Experiences
(10 percentage points added to final course grade)
This class has a multitude of opportunities to learn about World Music; classroom participation, listening experiences, concerts, Multimedia Lab., et al. Document these experiences in at least a 2,000 word essay for an additional 10% credit in the course. Use a "diary-of-Music-345-experiences" journal/essay format for this project, which is due according to the Event Schedule, if extra credit is to be awarded.
Grades
The total course grade will be based on two examinations, a course writing component, and student concert attendance, with consideration for the extra credit option above. The extra credit projects are worth a maximum of 10% per project.
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Each concert is worth 2% of course grade |
No note-taking during concert |
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Important: Students must pass both course examinations with a percentage grade of 60% or above to pass the course. Students that fail one or both course examinations with a percentage score of 59% or below are subject to failing the course without regard to the final overall percentage grade.
Tips on How to Study
Studying the course material - beginning on the Music in Our World (textbook) Home Page - is at least a three-fold experience.
The first consists of learning the material in the usual manner - by reading textbook pages - and, where interest and curiosity take the student, by following the hypertext links. Use the textbook as a reference for the examinations as well. This is the student's path to doing well on the examinations.
The second consists of clicking on the "knowledge webs" (for example, Music
) that are provided throughout the text to illustrate the "major concepts" found in the text and their relationship to other major concepts. The knowledge webs are used here as maps that guide student's study of the course concepts. "Central" concepts (the ones located in the middle of the graphic screen) are the concepts on which the student will be tested on the two semester examinations. The graphic screen (frame) "elements" are read in the same way one reads the principal parts of a sentence: for example, from the central concept outward, read MUSIChas element RHYTHM or MUSICis made from SOUND. There is no other way one should read these graphic screens.
The knowledge web software's metaphor is an old-fashioned "clock". In the webbing software, the arrows in the graphic frame point to clock positions (12 noon, 1 p.m., etc.). "Related concepts" are placed at the clock points. In the knowledge webs, the related concepts that are in bold at the clock points are clickable. With one click of the mouse, the student may access the related concept AS A CENTRAL CONCEPT in the next graphic frame. This produces a new web of information related to the NEW central concept. Students may also click on the dark and light circles to the immediate upper right and left of the central concepts to see a picture (light circle -- upper left) and text (dark circle -- upper right) that may be associated with the central concept.
Students access the course knowledge webs by (1) going to the Knowledge Webs Home Page -- a robust WWW site that contains more than 1,000 important course concepts with many links to other WWW information with definitions, pictures, graphics, sounds, and other material related to the course content. The knowledge webs are presented both with the central concept "displayed" (for learning) and "masked" (for study), or (2) by accessing individual concepts in the course textbook by clicking once on any concept that is followed by the knowledge web Software icon; for example, Music. (3) Listen to music samples that are referenced. Music samples are generally in MP3 format. (example)
Examinations and Grades
There are two course examinations; practice examinations and real examinations will be available for each.
Practice examinations will be given/taken this semester primarily on W or Th, or, if your class meets only on M, during the last hour of the class meeting, and will be administered during class time. Practice examinations will be given for each of the course parts below.
The Parts of the textbook that will be covered on the respective examinations are below.
(2) Arab Music
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Examination Number ONE
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Examination Number TWO
The first real examination will cover only the material studied prior to the first examination, and the second real examination will cover only the material studied between the first examination and the final exaination.
Examinations Form
ParScore Form No. F-289
The final examination will NOT be cumulative.
Students with Learning Disabilities
Students with learning disabilities are allowed, according to university policy, a minimum of one and one-half times the amount of examination time for a course. These examinations will be administered personally by the instructor.
All general education courses at SDSU require a "writing component." The writing component in World Music in Contemporary Life represents 10% of the student's course grade. Students will turn the papers in during class on the due date. The course writing component comprises 10% of the student's final course grade. Superior writing will earn full credit while writing of lesser merit will earn less according to its quality.
Credit/No Credit
Students enrolled for CR/NC must receive a final grade of 70 or above to receive CR. Students with a final grade of 69% and below will receive "No Credit" -- "NC".
Student Outcomes
1. Students will know the elements of music and how they are applied in various music cultures and time periods of Western music.
2. Students will know the textures of music and how they are applied to various music cultures and time periods of Western music.
3. Students will be able to identify samples of music from (1) the following periods of Western music: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern; and (2) the cultures of the Far East, Middle East, Latin America, Europe, Africa, India, and Indonesia, and in some cases by style, genre, and specific composition.
4. Students will be able to identify music instruments, styles, genres, textures, and elements of music in ten live concerts of music from around the World.
5. Students will write with proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.
6. Students will write using course concepts knowledgably, musical terminology correctly, and in a manner that reflects their experience in the Music 345 course.
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