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2023-2024 Johnstown Campus Catalog 
    
 
  Mar 02, 2025
 
2023-2024 Johnstown Campus Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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MUSIC 0311 - INTRODUCTION TO WORLD MUSIC


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This introductory course deals with a great variety of traditional musical genres from selected cultures around the world. It aims to familiarize students with music sound and music structure of different people, to help them appreciate music in its cultural context, and to give them a broad worldview of music both as a human activity with social functions and as an artistic expression. Generous use will be made of audio-visual aids and live performances in the presentation of materials.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: Asian Studies, DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.


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