To introduce basic skills to listening to any music culture
analytically and critically.
To discuss issues of definitions and boundaries of music and the
world view of the specific culture, area, topic or genre.
To identify, discuss and write about the socio-cultural,
political and music history of the specific culture, area, topic
or genre.
To identify the salient features of the instruments, musicians,
musical structures and composition, musical aesthetics,
performance contexts and performance practices. 
To critically analyze musical selections.

Example: For the Topic, Religious Music in Africa
1. Definitions of Music and religion: world views, african views,
listening and analyzing music
2. Perceptions of music and religion in Africa:socio-cultural
perceptions, historical perceptions, political perceptions,
gender perceptions
3. Music and religion in indigenous society: Case studies, Yoruba
of Nigeria, Luyia of Kenya, Zulu of South Africa
4. Music and Islam: historical, cultural and religious perceptions
5. Music and Islam in Africa, case study, Yoruba.
6. Music and Christianity: historical, cultural and religious
perceptions
7. Music and Chritianity in Africa. case Study Luyia
8. Synchretism, adaptation and appropriation of music and
religion in Africa with examples from the case study cultures
9. The religious music industry:Disseminating music and religion
10.Religous music industry in Africa with case studies from
Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa
11.The african musician as artist and/or for religion and the
industry.  Sample ethnographies and repertoire.
12. The academie and the religious musician and repertoire

For the Area: East Africa
1. Broad introduction to Africa;, history, culture areas, cultures
2. General features of music in Africa
3. Introduction to East Africa; history, cultures, cultural
histories, languages etc.
4. Survey of music instruments in East africa
5. Categories of music, musicians
6. Indigenous music: Case studies, Baganda and Acholi of Uganda,
Nyamwezi and Chagga of Tanzania, Luyia and Luo of Kenya
7. Music and Islam: Swahili case studies
8. Music and Christianity: Catholic church, Protestast,
Pentecostal and Charismatic, Idependent Churches
9. Popular music: General secular, Islamic base, Christian base 
10.Music in contemporary formal education
11..Urban folk and political genres
12.The musician in contemporary society.

For the culture: Yoruba Music
1.Introduction to the culture in historical, contemporary,
social, political context
2.Yoruba musical world view
3.Traditional Yoruba music in Nigeria
4.Traditional Yoruba music in their African Diaspora
5.Traditional Yoruba music in their N. American Diaspora
6.Traditional Yoruba Music in their Carribean Diaspora
7.Traditional Yoruba music in their S. American Diaspora
8. Yoruba, Islam and music 
9. Yoruba, Christianity and Music
10.Yoruba Popular music and musicians
11.Yoruba and European Art music
12.Other diasporic compositions and performers
13.The impact of Yoruba music and musicians

For the Genre: Soukous
1. Introduction to music for entertainment in Africa
2. The diaspora and popular music
3. The beginnings of soukous in Congo Republic
4. The cuban connection
5. The African reification: 
6  Development of form: major composers, performers, structures,
instruments etc.
7. The spread of soukous in Africa: African Jazz
8. The Francophone factor, Paris as a center
9. Other genres arising in Central africa
10.Development of national genres in other african nations: Case
study Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mali, Cameroun
11.Soukous and the "world music" label: Globalization 
12.Contemporary musicians in Africa, in Europe and the in Carribean