This course addresses special topics in music. Upon completion, 
the successful student will be able to: 

* recognize and describe significant aspects of musical style, 
aesthetics, performance, or process in music of specific 
historical and cultural contexts;
* demonstrate active learning through informed participation in 
the musical and cultural life of the local, historical, or 
global cultures studied;
* deliver oral presentations appropriate to professional 
audiences.

Main topics may include:

* introduction to the cultural study of music as a global 
phenomenon;
* introduction to the historical study of music and the variety 
of musical traditions;
* case studies of selected music cultures, genres, composers, 
and works;
*exploration of the applied study of music within the larger 
framework of the social and cultural experience.

The following standards apply to all writing submitted for credit in this course:

1. Cite all sources, internet as well as print, both in the body of your paper and at
   the end in a Works Cited list. Just because it’s on the Web does not mean it’s
   common knowledge. In fact, the opposite is true: you must tell your reader where the
   words and ideas come from, so that your reader can “check it out.”

2. The obligation to provide citations applies to ideas as well as words. Therefore, 
   you will need to acknowledge sources not just for direct quotes, but also when you
   are summarizing or paraphrasing.

3. It is not true that “factual” information need not be cited. Much factual
   information is of doubtful origin, or at the other extreme, of very specific origin.
   If you are not abolutely sure that your facts are common knowledge, cite their
   source.

4. Cite your sources for recordings you listen to, whether commercial CD, someone’s
   tape of a CD or LP, or internet site. Treat the sources of “sound” just like the
   sources of print. I should be able to trace these sources back to an “original,” at
   least in theory, so that the producers of the music get the scholarly recognition
   they deserve.