Undergraduate Courses

Study of vocal physiology and the basic principles and techniques of vocal production and pedagogy. Students learn practical application of vocal principles by giving private vocal instruction to nonvoice majors.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Group lessons (by examination) in voice, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, observation.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Private lessons (by examination) in voice, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Private lessons for non-majors (by examination) in voice, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Private or group lessons in voice, supplemented by extra assignments,
outside practice, and observation.

Private or group lessons (by examination) in voice, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation. Required attendance at recitals.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Private lessons (by examination) in voice, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A class for undergraduate majors of Educational Theater, this course focuses on the development of an actor's vocal instrument through physical exercises and work with poetic and dramatic text. Through exploration of established vocal techniques, students will build positive habits and ways of working with their voices that will allow for them to develop natural resonance and create more vocal variation. This increased vocal clarity will put them more directly in touch with their emotional impulses, and build a stronger dramatic foundation in acting.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

This course examines the proposition that contemporary war should be understood as media. War has become mediatized and media has been militarized. This course treats war and political violence as communicative acts and technologies and focuses on how they shape our understanding and experience of landscape, vision, body, time and memory.

• Department: Media, Culture, and Communication

Wellness is dynamic and multidimensional. We cannot understand wellness by alone examining biological phenomena and medical knowledge, but instead we must also consider a variety of social, political, economic, racial, gender, and cultural forces in which wellness and illness are produced and understood. Drawing upon literature, art, history, film, and health, in conjunction with a community engagement experiential component, we examine the history of and physical, social, emotional, intellectual, occupational, and spiritual components of wellness and illness from ancient times through the present.

• Department: Occupational Therapy

A survey course in African dance with accompanying songs, music, and simple instructions of the regions of West, East, Central, and South Africa.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Private or group lessons (by examination) in percussion instruments, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation. Required attendance at recitals.

Private or group lessons (by examination) in wind instruments, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation. Required attendance at recitals.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Private or group lessons (by examination) in wind instruments, supplemented by extra assignments, outside practice, and observation.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Focuses on the psychology of women & their mental health throughout the life cycle. Topics include socialization & gender, feminist theory & therapy, as well as high prevalence of disorders which occur in girls & women.

• Department: Applied Psychology

Instrumental Performance juries assess each student’s growth in instrumental techniques including intonation, rhythm, tone production, articulation, dynamics, and musicality. Juries take place at a designated time at the end of the semester and are evaluated by each student’s program director and any additional invited faculty. Jury repertoire is selected in conversation with each student’s private teacher, and each student studies their jury repertoire in their private lessons.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

An ensemble approach to teaching, learning and performing on woodwind instruments in diverse music and school settings. Each student will have experience with at least three different woodwind instruments, and will study the transpositions needed for these instruments. This course is designed for students in Music Education and prepares them for meeting the requirements for K-12 music teacher certification.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

A review of traditional and experimental fingerings and effects on wind instruments. Examinations and performance of scores written for winds. Projects in composition for winds throughout the semester.

• Department: Music and Performing Arts Professions

Using hands-on activities, students learn alternative methods of teaching second/world language through such approaches as jazz chants, storytelling, and others. Students work on resource projects on various innovative approaches to teaching world languages.

• Department: Teaching and Learning