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Date Approved:
5/14/93
Date Scanned:
5/24/2005
Inactivated by Curriculum Committee 9/28/07__
College of the Redwoods
CREDIT COURSE OUTLINE
DEPARTMENT AND COURSE NUMBER: Music 42
DEGREE APPLICABLE
NON-DEGREE APPLICABLE
FORMER NUMBER (If previously offered)
COURSE TITLE Music Ensemble
LECTURE HOURS: 0.25-0.75
LAB HOURS: 0.75-2.25
PREREQUISITE: None
UNITS: 0.5-1.5
Eligibility for: Engl 150
Math 105
Request for Exception Attached
CO-REQUISITE: None
GRADING STANDARD:
Letter Grade Only
TRANSFERABILITY:
CSUS
UC
Articulation with UC requested
Repeatable
yes
no
CR/NC Only
NONE
Max No. Units 3.0
Grade/CR/NC Option
Maximum Class Size 30
Max No. Enrollments 4
CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
A course in small ensemble performance and the social context of various kinds of music. Students will
have a choice of emphasis. The options may be chamber music in the European classical tradition, jazz,
or world cultures such as: Africa, China, or Latin America. Students will conduct outside research,
listening, and practice assignments. The classical and jazz options require prior instrumental performance
skills. Variable 0.5-1.5 units, 0.25-0.75 lecture hours per week, 0.75-2.25 lab hours per week.
NOTE: This course requires instrumental performance ability. Outside practice is expected.
COURSE OUTCOMES/OBJECTIVES: List the primary instructional objectives of the class. Formulate
some of them in terms of specific measurable student accomplishments, e.g., specific knowledge and/or
skills to be attained as a result’ of completing this course. For degree-applicable courses, include
objectives in the area of “critical thinking.” Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be
able to:
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The student will gain performance skill in a particular music tradition: classical, jazz or ethnic.
The student will develop an understanding of the social context for type of music.
The student will also gain instructional skills that may be useful in vocational goals.
The student will gain the skill and confidence for public performance.
The student will apply critical thinking in evaluating proper performance style.
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Date Approved:
5/14/93
Date Scanned:
5/24/2005
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COURSE OUTLINE:
Classical option:
Lecture — Research — Listening
Instrumental techniques
Sight-reading skills
Rehearsal for public performance
% of Classroom Hours Spent on Each Topic
25
25
25
25
Jazz option:
Lecture — Research — Listening
Instrumental techniques
Jazz theory concepts
Principles of improvisation
Rehearsal for public performance
25
15
15
15
30
World music’s option:
Africa—China—Latin America
Lecture — Research (cultural context)
Listening - modeling
Instrumental techniques
Rehearsal for public performance
25
25
25
25
APPROPRIATE TEXTS AND MATERIALS; (Indicate textbooks that may he required or recommended,
including alternate texts that may be used.)
Text(s)
Title: None
Required
Edition: _____
Alternate
Author: _____
Recommended
Publisher: _____
Date Published: _____
(Additional required, alternate, or recommended texts should he listed on a separate sheet and attached.
For degree applicable courses the adopted texts have been certified to be college-level:
Yes. Basis for determination:
is used by two or more four-year colleges or universities (certified by the Division Chair or
Branch Coordinator, or Center Dean)
OR
has been certified by the LAC as being of college level using the Coleman and Dale-Chall
Readability Index Scale.
No. Request for Exception Attached
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Date Approved:
5/14/93
Date Scanned:
5/24/2005
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If no text or a below college level text is used in a degree applicable course must have a minimum of one
response in category 1, 2, or 3. If category 1 is not checked, the department must explain why substantial
writing assignments are an inappropriate basis for at least part of the grade.
1. Substantial writing assignments, including:
essay exam(s)
term or other paper(s)
written homework
reading report(s)
laboratory report(s)
other (specify) _____
If the course is degree applicable, substantial writing assignments in this course are inappropriate
because:
The course is primarily computational in nature.
The course primarily involves skill demonstrations or problem solving.
Other rationale (explain) The student develops responsibility/cooperation with a group in preparing
material for public performance.
2. Computational or Non-computational problem-solving demonstrations, including:
exam(s)
quizzes
homework problems
laboratory report(s)
field work
other (specify)_______
3. Skill demonstrations, including:
class performance(s)
other (specify)____
4. Objective examinations, including:
multiple choice
completion
field work
performance exam(s)
true/false
other (specify)
matching items
5. Other (specify) ____________________________________
NOTE: A course grade may not be based solely on attendance.
REQUIRED READING, WRITING, AND OTHER OUTSIDE OF CLASS ASSIGNMENTS:
Over an 18-week presentation of the course, 3 hours per week are required for each unit of credit. ALL
Degree Applicable Credit classes must treat subject matter with a scope and intensity which require the
student to study outside of class. Two hours of independent work done out of class are required for each
hour of lecture. Lab and activity classes must also require some outside of class work. Outside of the
regular class time the students in this class will be doing the following:
Study
Answer questions
Skill practice
Required reading
Problem solving activity or exercise
Written work (essays/compositions/report/analysis/research)
Journal (reaction and evaluation of class, done on a continuing basis throughout the
semester)
Observation of or participation in an activity related to course content (e.g., play, museum,
concert, debate, meeting, etc.)
Field trips
Other (specify) Listening to recorded examples for purposes of imitation
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Date Approved:
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Date Scanned:
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COLLEGE LEVEL CRITICAL THINKING TASKS/ASSIGNMENTS:
Degree applicable courses must include critical thinking tasks/assignments. This section need not be
completed for non-degree applicable courses. Describe how the course requires students to
independently analyze, synthesize, explain, assess, anticipate and/or define problems, formulate and
assess solutions, apply principles to new situations, etc.
1. The student will learn to assess proper performance style between, baroque, classical, romantic, and
contemporary literature.
2. The student will learn to assess proper role for various instruments in a jazz combo. The student will
learn appropriate interpretation of jazz styles: dixieland, bebop, fusion, and contemporary.
3. The student will learn to assess the proper role for various instruments in an ethnic music ensemble.
Recordings will be used as models for performance. Students will understand proper function of music in
a cultural context.
REQUEST FOR EXCEPTION
The Curriculum Committee Is authorized to determine the appropriateness of entrance skills and
requisites for any given course; to determine whether or not language and/or computational skills at the
associate degree level are essential to success in a given course; to determine what is “college level” in
learning skills, vocabulary, and in the ability to think critically and apply concepts; and to determine on a
case-by-case basis when any departure from the attached guidelines may be justified.
This form may also be used to provide justification for making a course repeatable.
To request an exception, provide the following information:
Music 42
Department and Course No.
Music Ensemble
Course Title
NATURE OF THE EXEPTION REQUESTED AND RATIONALE:
TEXT
These classes are performance oriented and assumes that a great deal of learning occurs through
participation, rather than strictly “studying about.” Performance literature will be supplied from the CR
Music Library and the personal collection of the instructor.