Undergraduate Courses

Advanced Aural Skills: Post Tonal and Extended Chromaticism

Continued development of sight-singing, dictation, and aural analysis skills developed in the prerequisite course, Advanced Aural Skills: Chromatic Harmony.

Advanced Aural Skills: Sight-Singing

Practice in advanced melodic and rhythmic sight-singing. This course builds on skills developed in Aural Skills I and II, emphasizing the performance of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic material using solfège

Advanced Coding Workshop

Project-based course designed to guide students through three advanced projects:
data visualization with APIs, games that communicate specific experiences, and cooperative networked interactions where two users work together to achieve a common goal. Each project is split into 3-4 weeks, so students have ample time to thoughtfully design a program, think through the technical architecture, develop it, and iterate based on in-class feedback.

Advanced Composition

An advanced course in expository writing for all students, especially those concerned with writing in school settings. Hours are arranged for individual counseling.

Advanced Foods

Principles and practice of identification, comparison, and evaluation of selected foods, ingredients, techniques, and equipment for recipe formulation, menu planning, or preparation with an emphasis on modifications to meet specific nutritional or other requirements.

Advanced Hip Hop Dance Culture

This dance course explores the fifth element of Hip Hop Culture, "Knowledge of self" through progressive movement vocabulary within Hip Hop/Street Dance Culture. Focusing on Hip Hop as a method to endorse cultural exchange and awareness. Individuals critically reflect on the social change, political impact and the evolution of Hip Hop Culture. This course promotes the application of Hip Hop/street dance to inspire, empower, develop self-consciousness, identify social issues and examine the integration of all elements across multiple intelligences.

Advanced Orchestration: Concert Music

The principles of orchestral scoring are examined through detailed score analysis and writing projects, as well as related topics including transposition, score format, and new notation. Classical through contemporary styles.

Advanced Orchestration: Screen Writing

This hands-on course provides the students with a practical toolkit to enable them to become proficient orchestrators in the field of film and media production. Using examples from traditional and contemporary practices, students analyze seminal scores written for the screen, orchestrate diverse exercises, and evaluate the results of their work by listening to live recordings of their exercises.

Advanced Printmaking/ Color Print Atelier

Projects selected by students to reflect their artistic preoccupation or to provide research in particular skills, subjects, or trends in printmaking.

Advanced Projects in Ceramics

Projects selected by students to reflect their artistic preoccupation or to provide research in particular skills, subjects, or trends in ceramics.

Advanced Projects in Painting

Projects selected by students to reflect their artistic preoccupation or to provide research in particular skills, subjects, or trends in painting.

Advanced Projects in Photography

Projects selected by students to reflect their artistic preoccupation or to provide research in particular skills, subjects, or trends in sculpture. Individual attention is given to the evaluation of each student’s work, black and white photographic processes and procedures and analysis of subject matter. The interrelationship with contemporary image making is emphasized.

Advanced Theory & Practice

Advanced level music theory. The courses build on techniques developed in Theory & Practice I and II.

Advanced Theory & Practice: Chromatic Harmony & Form

Hands-on work with the materials of chromatic tonality and an introduction to complex forms.

Advanced Theory & Practice: Counterpoint in the Digital Age

Digital audio workstations (DAW), such as Garage Band, Audacity, and Ableton provide students with a hands-on polyphonic platform for studying and composing contrapuntal music.

Advanced Theory & Practice: Non-Western Music

The study of non-Western theories of music. This course examines topics in pitch, rhythm, and formal structure in selected music from Africa, Latin America, East Asia, India, and the Middle East.

Advanced Theory & Practice: Post Tonal and Contemporary Music

Introduction to the materials and organizing principles of 20th and 21st century concert music and jazz.

Advanced Topics in Music Technology: Multichannel Media Installation and Performance

Multichannel Media Installation and Performance is a course designed for composers and artists who want to work in a performance or installation context with immersive sound and image technology. The course focuses on software and hardware workflows for the creative applications of multi-channel sound and immersive video for the creation of fixed, generative, reactive, performance-based, and interactive systems that can be experienced in a gallery context or a live performance. Students will develop a semester-length project to use scale and immersion to creative effect. The course will feature regular creative critique as well as an overview of relevant interaction design strategies for creating interactive spaces using sensors and cameras.

Advanced Topics in Recorded Music and Music Publishing

Advertising and Consumer Society

This course will examine the emergence of advertising as a form of communication, its influence upon other forms of mediated communication and its impact upon culture and society.