College of the Redwoods
CURRICULUM PROPOSAL
1.
Division: Arts, Languages, and Social Sciences
2.
Course ID and Number: Music 100L
3.
Course Title: Songwriting Lab
4.
Discipline(s) (Select from CCC System Office Minimum Qualification for Faculty [copy following web
address and paste into web browser http://www.cccco.edu/divisions/esed/aa_ir/psmq/min_qual/min_quals%20_revApr406.pdf]
Course may fit more than one discipline; identify all that apply): Music
5.
Check one of the following:
New Course
If curriculum has been offered under a different discipline and/or name, identify the former course:
Change to existing course (course discipline and number are not changing)
Should another course be inactivated?
Title of course to be inactivated:
6.
No
Yes
Inactivation date:
Is course part of a CR Degree/Certificate Program? (If New is selected above, check No) No
Yes
If yes, specify program code(s). (Codes can be found in Outlook/Public Folders/All Public Folders/
Curriculum/Degree and Certificate Programs/choose appropriate catalog year):
Required course
Restricted elective
7.
Provide explanation and justification for addition/change/deletion:
First revision since the course's creation in 2001. The experience of offering the
course from 2001-05 has enabled us to define the course learning outcomes with
greater precision.
8. List any special materials, equipment, tools, etc. that students must purchase:
9. Will this course have an instructional materials fee? No
Fee: $
Submitted by:
Ed Macan/Joseph Byrd
Yes
Tel. Ext. 4321
Division Chair: Justine Shaw
Date: 11-01-07
Review Date: 11/6/07
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE USE ONLY
Approved by Curriculum Committee: No
Board of Trustees Approval Date: 1/15/08
Curriculum Proposal (rev. 3.26.07)
Senate Approved: 09.03.04
Yes
Date: 11/30/07
Page 1 of 8
May 29, 2016
SUMMARY OF CURRICULUM CHANGES
FOR AN EXISTING COURSE
FEATURES
Catalog Description
OLD
NEW
(Please include complete
text of old and new catalog
descriptions.)
Grading Standard
Grade-CR/NC Option
Letter Grade Only
0.5
0.5 - 1.0
Total Units
Lecture Units
Lab Units
Prerequisites
Corequisites
Recommended
Preparation
Maximum Class Size
Repeatability—
Maximum Enrollments
Other
If any of the listed features have been modified in the new proposal, indicate the “old” (current) information and
proposed changes.
Curriculum Proposal (rev. 3.26.07)
Senate Approved: 09.03.04
Page 2 of 8
May 29, 2016
College of the Redwoods
COURSE OUTLINE
DATE: 11-01-07
COURSE ID AND NUMBER: Music 100L
COURSE TITLE: Songwriting Lab
FIRST TERM NEW OR REVISED COURSE MAY BE OFFERED: Spring 2008
TOTAL UNITS: 0.5 or 1.0
TOTAL HOURS: 27 or 54
[Lecture Units:0.0 Lab Units:0.5-1.0]
[Lecture Hours:0.0 Lab Hours:27.0-54.0]
MAXIMUM CLASS SIZE: 25
GRADING STANDARD
Letter Grade Only
CR/NC Only
Is this course repeatable for additional credit units: No
Grade-CR/NC Option
Yes
If yes, how many total enrollments? 4
Is this course to be offered as part of the Honors Program? No
Yes
If yes, explain how honors sections of the course are different from standard sections.
CATALOG DESCRIPTION
The catalog description should clearly state the scope of the course, its level, and what kinds of student goals the
course is designed to fulfill.
A concentration on the development of songwriting skills. Students participate in a
number of individual and group assignments that cover a variety of songwriting
techniques.
Special notes or advisories:
PREREQUISITES
No
Yes
Course(s): Music 100
Rationale for Prerequisite:
Describe representative skills without which the student would be highly unlikely to succeed .
It is assumed that a student taking this course has already been introduced to the basic
elements of songwriting.
COREQUISITES
No
Yes
Rationale for Corequisite:
Course(s):
RECOMMENDED PREPARATION
No
Yes
Course(s):
Rationale for Recommended Preparation:
Curriculum Proposal (rev. 3.26.07)
Senate Approved: 09.03.04
Page 3 of 8
May 29, 2016
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
What should the student be able to do as a result of taking this course? State some of the objectives in terms of
specific, measurable student accomplishments.
1. Identify the sections of a given popular song (intro, verse, chorus, bridge, outro) within
both conventional and less ordinary song structures.
2. Identify and articulate the difference between effective and ineffective uses of both
conventional and unconventional song structures.
3. Distinguish beat patterns (duple, triple, quadruple) in both ordinary and less
conventional applications.
4. Demonstrate familiarity with both common and less frequently encountered
songwriting genres through the identificiation of specific songs according to genre.
5. Write lyrics in a number of different song forms and genres.
6. Craft a memorable "hook."
7. Demonstrate effective scansion in one's lyrics.
8. Demonstrate a growing ability to use common literary devices in the creation of one's
lyrics.
COURSE CONTENT
Themes: What themes, if any, are threaded throughout the learning experiences in this course?
Relationships between a song's affective qualities, its structure, and the literary/musical
techniques used to convey the affect in question
Concepts: What concepts do students need to understand to demonstrate course outcomes?
1. Taxonomy of secondary song structures (A B A, A B folk forms, rock forms based on
parallel phrases such as A A A A, less common 32 bar structures (or extensions of 32 bar
structures) such as A A B C A, A A B A C C).
2. Use of basic metaphor in writing song lyrics.
3. Use of continuity in extended metaphor for song lyrics.
4. Scansion, the technique of effectively aligning the natural accents of the lyric with
complementary underlying metric accents in the music.
Issues: What primary issues or problems, if any, must students understand to achieve course outcomes (including
such issues as gender, diversity, multi-culturalism, and class)?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Differences between vernacular and poetic writing.
Literary devices such as hyperbole, alliteration.
Differences between explicit and metaphoric forms of public speech .
Effective scansion.
Skills: What skills must students master to demonstrate course outcomes?
1. Genre recognition (including less commonly encountered songwriting genres).
2. Structural analysis, including the ability to account for atypical sections in songs
and/or recognize unusual/atypical song structures.
3. Application of unusual structural elements to enhance affect in one's own lyrics.
4. Use of both vernacular and poetic writing modes in one's own lyrics.
5. Use of literary devices such as alliteration and metaphor in one's own lyrics.
6. Crafting a memorable "hook," a short, striking, recurrent phrase that catches a
listener's attention and unifies the lyric.
7. Effective scansion in one's own lyrics.
Curriculum Proposal (rev. 3.26.07)
Senate Approved: 09.03.04
Page 4 of 8
May 29, 2016
REPRESENTATIVE LEARNING ACTIVITIES
What will students be doing (e.g., listening to lectures, participating in discussions and/or group activities, attending
a field trip)? Relate the activities directly to the Course Learning Outcomes.
1. Participating in in-class song analysis sessions that hone recognition of specific
songwriting genres, structures, and techniques.
2. Submitting original lyrics.
3. Offering a critique of other students' lyrics in a group setting.
ASSESSMENT TASKS
How will students show evidence of achieving the Course Learning Outcomes? Indicate which assessments (if any)
are required for all sections.
Representative assessment tasks:
1. Extend song analyses from simple AAB and AABA forms to include ternary (ABA) and
binary (AB) folk forms, basic AAB blues form, and less common forms (ABAC, AABCA,
AAAA, AABACC).
2. Locate outside of class and analyze lyrics that conform to the types studied in class.
3. Write a lyric in each of the new forms introduced in class.
4. Critique the lyrics of peers, identifying how the lyric either addresses or fails to address
the concepts and techniques that it was assigned to exemplify.
Required assessments for all sections – to include but not limited to:
EXAMPLES OF APPROPRIATE TEXTS OR OTHER READINGS
Author, Title, and Date Fields are required
Author Gene
Lees
Title
The Modern Rhyming Dictionary
Author
Title
Date
Author
Title
Date
Author
Title
Date
Date
1987
Other Appropriate Readings:
Jason Blume, 6 Steps to Songwriting Success (2004)
Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled--Unlocking the Poet Within (2005)
Curriculum Proposal (rev. 3.26.07)
Senate Approved: 09.03.04
Page 5 of 8
May 29, 2016
PROPOSED TRANSFERABILITY:
CSU
UC
If CSU transferability is proposed (courses numbered
1-99), indicate whether general elective credit or specific
course equivalent credit is proposed.
If specific course equivalent credit is proposed, give
course numbers/ titles of at least two comparable lower
division courses from a UC, CSU, or equivalent
institution.
None
General elective credit
Specific course equivalent
1.
,
(Campus)
2.
,
(Campus)
CURRENTLY APPROVED GENERAL EDUCATION
CR
CSU
IGETC
CR GE Category:
CSU GE Category:
IGETC Category:
PROPOSED CR GENERAL EDUCATION
Rationale for CR General Education approval (including category designation):
Natural Science
Social Science
Humanities
Language and Rationality
Writing
Oral Communications
Analytical Thinking
PROPOSED CSU GENERAL EDUCATION BREADTH (CSU GE)
A. Communications and Critical Thinking
A1 – Oral Communication
A2 – Written Communication
A3 – Critical Thinking
C. Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and Foreign
Language
C1 – Arts (Art, Dance, Music, Theater)
C2 – Humanities (Literature,
Philosophy, Foreign Language)
E. Lifelong Understanding and SelfDevelopment
E1 – Lifelong Understanding
E2 – Self-Development
B. Science and Math
B1 – Physical Science
B2 – Life Science
B3 – Laboratory Activity
B4 – Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning
D. Social, Political, and Economic Institutions
D0 – Sociology and Criminology
D1 – Anthropology and Archeology
D2 – Economics
D3 – Ethnic Studies
D5 – Geography
D6 – History
D7 – Interdisciplinary Social or Behavioral
Science
D8 – Political Science, Government and Legal Institutions
D9 – Psychology
Rationale for inclusion in this General Education category: Same as above
Curriculum Proposal (rev. 3.26.07)
Senate Approved: 09.03.04
Page 6 of 8
May 29, 2016
Proposed Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC)
1A – English Composition
1B – Critical Thinking-English Composition
1C – Oral Communication (CSU requirement only)
2A – Math
3A – Arts
3B – Humanities
4A – Anthropology and Archaeology
4B – Economics
4E – Geography
4F – History
4G – Interdisciplinary, Social & Behavioral Sciences
4H – Political Science, Government & Legal Institutions
4I – Psychology
4J – Sociology & Criminology
5A – Physical Science
5B – Biological Science
6A – Languages Other Than English
Rationale for inclusion in this General Education category:
Curriculum Proposal (rev. 3.26.07)
Senate Approved: 09.03.04
Same as above
Page 7 of 8
May 29, 2016
FOR VPAA USE ONLY
PROGRAM AND COURSE NUMBER MUS-100L
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
1. Department: ARTS Arts
2. Subject: Music
16. CoRequisite Course: None
Course No: 100
17. Recommended Prep: None
3. Credit Type: D Credit Degree Applicable
18. Maximum Class Size: 25
4. Min/Maximum Units: 0.5 to 1.0
19. Repeat/Retake: R3 May enroll 4 times for credit
variable units
5. Course Level: E Not Occupational
20. Count Retakes for Credit:
yes
no
6. Academic Level: UG Undergraduate
21. Only Pass/No Pass:
yes
no
7. Grade Scheme: UG Undergraduate
22. Allow Pass/No Pass:
yes
no
8. Short Title: Songwriting Lab
23. VATEA Funded Course:
yes
no
9. Long Title: Songwriting Lab
24. Accounting Method: W Weekly Census
10. National ID
11. Local ID
(CIP):
(TOPS):
50.0901
100400
12. Course Types:
 Level One Basic Skills: NBS Not Basic Skills
25. Disability Status: N Not a Special Class
26. Billing Method: T-Term
27. Billing Period: R-Reporting Term
28. Billing Credits: .5-1.0

Level Two Work Experience:


NWE Not Coop Work Experience
29. Purpose: A Liberal Arts Sciences
Level Three:
30. Articulation No.
Placeholder for GE OR
(CAN):
DOES NOT APPLY
31. Articulation Seq.
Level Four: If GE : Choose One:
32. Transfer Status: C Not transferable
13. Instructional Method:
(CAN):
33. Equates to another course?
(course number).
Lab Laboratory/Studio/Activity
14. Lec TLUs:
Contact Hours:
Lab TLUs: 1.5-3.0 Contact Hours: 27-54
Lecture/Lab TLUs:
Contact Hours:
34. The addition of this course will inactive
number). Inactive at end of
term.
15. Prerequisite: MUS-100
Particular Comments for Printed Catalog.
.
Curriculum Approval Date: 1/15/08
Curriculum Proposal (rev. 3.26.07)
Senate Approved: 09.03.04
Page 8 of 8
May 29, 2016
(course