MUSC 2025 - Intro to World Music

Credits: 3
General Education: Human Cultures (HC)

Students develop strategies for listening to and analyzing the sounds of various music in relation to external, structural, and social elements influencing human cultures. Music and cultures to be analyzed and studied include, but are not limited to: Africa, Asia, Indonesia, India, and Eastern Europe. Students analyze the context of musical expressions around the world and interpret the meaning of music through diverse social networks (i.e. race, ethnicity, socioeconomic identity, religion, politics,etc.).