2020-2021 Academic Catalog 
    
    Nov 12, 2024  
2020-2021 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MUSI 211 - Music Appreciation

3 CR
This course is designed to give students the tools to listen to all types of music with greater understanding. The basic elements of music and their use in many different performance styles and cultures will be emphasized.

Requisites: Next Gen ACCUPLACER® reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55 .
General Education Requirement: Personal and Cultural Engagement - General Education Core
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Humanities and Fine Arts
Course Learning Outcomes:
  1. Identify, and demonstrate listening skill mastery in the basic areas of the musical language.
  2. Demonstrate a working vocabulary of musical terminology.
  3. Distinguish the difference between active (fully engaged in the process through a purposeful response) and passive (personal enjoyment) forms of listening.
  4. Analyze a variety of musical forms, styles and genres.
  5. Research and analyze a musical historical period, genre, and or element.