Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe key features associated with contemporary and ethical learning and teaching theories and practices in schools and the community. 
2. Identify supports and barriers that affect access to music education. 
3. Apply their understanding of teaching and learning in the development and analysis of teaching videos, lesson plans, or educational resources. 
4. Describe and apply their understanding of teaching and learning to develop and implement learning activities and assessments for a variety of students. 

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop critical listening skills and appropriate technical vocabulary to identify and describe vocal qualities, issues, and inefficiencies.
2. Demonstrate practical experience in teaching voice to others.
3. Describe the fundamental principles of singing.
4. Develop an understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the voice.
5. Explore the concepts of breath support, pressure, resonance, vowel placement, passaggio, and registration.
6. Gain an understanding of what efficient, safe, and sustainable singing is.
7. Understand one's own singing voices through a scientific understanding of the vocal mechanism.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate instrumental techniques at the introductory level on the clarinet and flute, including instrument assembly and care, hand and holding position, basic fingerings, embouchure, articulation, air support, and tone quality.
2. Demonstrate performance skills at a beginner level.
3. Reproduce good habits in playing the instrument.
4. Understand the various transpositions of the members of the clarinet and flute families, as well as their written ranges, including beginner, intermediate and advanced ranges.
5. Utilize basic diagnostic skills to be able to identify and correct embouchure, air support, holding hand position, as well as articulation issues and problems.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate essential performance skills and abilities in the musical tradition.
2. Describe age, ability, and culturally appropriate ways to introduce this performance tradition into a classroom setting.
3. Describe the fundamental principles associated with the musical tradition using appropriate terminology.
4. Identify, interpret, develop or select some pedagogical resources including repertoire to support others as they learn this performance tradition.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate appropriate technique and expressive abilities
2. Describe and demonstrate the fundamental principles associated with playing and teaching brass instruments (instrument care and handling, fingerings, range, harmonic series, tuning difficulties, embouchure)
3. Identify, interpret, develop or select some pedagogical resources including repertoire to support others as they learn this instrument(s).

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Read a lead sheet to offer harmonic support on the keyboard.
2. Play basic harmonies along with a given melody.
3. Play a series of basic harmonic progressions by sight and by memory.
4. Realize basic figured bass.
5. Transcribe a given harmonic progression by ear.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate appropriate technique and expressive abilities on the violin, viola or cello.
2. Describe and demonstrate the fundamental principles associated with playing and teaching violin, viola and cello (Identification of ranges on each instruments, fingerings, bowings, transpositions, tunings, basic instrument maintenance).
3. Identify, interpret, develop or select some pedagogical resources including repertoire to support others as they learn this instrument(s).

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Acquire the fundamental skills and techniques required to play and teach in relation to the percussion section. This will be done through observing the instructor and then repeating examples of exercises and repertoire. This will done as a group until the participants can effectively confidently perform selected exemplars of course content.
2. Integrate the 4 stroke types into the basic technique required for performing on the snare drum and mallet percussion.
3. Interpret various musical conventions as they relate to the notation of percussion music and repertoire. These skills will be demonstrated through the performance of selected examples on snare drum, timpani and mallet percussion.
4. Using correct notation conventions, compose a brief selection for solo percussionist or large percussion ensemble. The completed work will use the conventional notation devises currently in practice. Works should also demonstrate an understanding of the ranges and technical possibilities available to each instrument.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate appropriate technique and expressive abilities when performing a variety of styles on the instrument.
2. Describe and demonstrate the fundamental principles associated with the guitar using appropriate terminology (e.g. maintenance on the guitar, including tuning, string changes and truss rod adjustments, reading tablature, fretboard diagrams and chord charts).
3. Identify, interpret, develop or select some pedagogical resources including repertoire to support others as they learn this instrument.
4. Transfer guitar skills to read and perform music for ukulele

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze examples of musical fusion as types of cultural exchange.
2. Assess the relationship between sonic expression and human society.
3. Evaluate and critique concepts of musical tradition and community to interpret social constructions of musical meaning.
4. Explain connections between musical and cultural values and musical and social structures in a variety of traditions and societies.
5. Identify elements of different music systems and differentiate universal from unique cultural elements.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain the process of musicalization in music theatre.
2. Analyze several prominent collaborative teams in music theatre creation history in North America, and describe their collaborative models.
3. Distinguish how these processes differ in musical theatre, opera, and avant-garde genres.
4. Deconstruct pieces of music theatre to explain how the combination of libretto, music, choreography, staging, design, renders a story.
5. Analyze and assess production choices in live and recorded productions.
6. Evaluate and compare examples of music theatre using disciplinary theoretical, analysis, and criticism skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and label a passage of music in terms of harmony, form, tonal context and harmonic function, in order to parse music and locate important moments of articulation.
2. Compose progressions 'from scratch' in both pop and classical styles.
3. Structure and implement typical instrumentation, harmonies, and rhythms in both pop and classical styles
4. Articulate, in words (text or verbal), what is observed about a particular passage of music and to create an individual interpretation of a passage of music, citing specific elements from the music.
5. Explain how analysis decisions might affect performance decisions and why.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and label a passage of music in terms of harmony, form, tonal context and harmonic function, and to parse music and locate important moments of articulation.
2. Articulate, in words (text or verbal), what is observed about a particular passage of music and to create an individual interpretation of a passage of music, citing specific elements from the music. In particular, students will discuss how to integrate hearing and notational analysis on more ambiguous chromatic passages.
3. Compose progressions "from scratch" based on common harmonic idioms
4. Explain how analysis decisions might affect performance decisions.
5. Identify which model of harmony and/or form most closely corresponds to a work, explain how the work does and does not conform to the given model, and speculate why a composer might have incorporated particular deviations.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the fundamentals of choreographic techniques through solo and ensemble performance of a selection from the Broadway or London musical theatre canon.
2. Discuss readings, recordings and lecture material to compare and contrast the various techniques and styles of dancers and choreographers in musicals from different eras.
3. Analyze and discuss physically sound techniques, in an accepting and open environment, through critical analysis of live and recorded performances.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the physiology and an appreciation for the health and care of the body, including the physiological differences in various dance styles.
5. Learn helpful strategies of how to deal with performance anxiety.
6. Review principles of acting such as subtext, character development, conflict, process, and apply them to various pieces of repertoire in a workshop or master class setting.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the central recurring social issues engaged through the representation of sex and violence in performance.
2. Differentiate a range of aesthetic strategies for representing controversial aspects of human experience.
3. Explain the use of performance to moderate the tensions between psychological impulses and cultural imperatives.
4. Demonstrate how controversial works engage philosophical and practical issues of censorship.
5. Demonstrate how appeals to both pleasure and disgust play a role in formulating an intellectual response to a performance.
6. Critique how the interplay between emotion and artistic form works to affect the judgement of an audience.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe and critique current disciplinary divisions in music studies.
2. Describe musical works and experiences using appropriate vocabularies and conventions.
3. Identify and describe several key philosophical, scholarly, or critical theorists that are used to examine musicking practices including ways.
4. Identify, describe, and analyze the ways various performances of musical works support, influence, or challenge pressing issues from the perspective of the audience including short-, medium-, and long-term implications of these experiences.
5. Apply critical or other scholarly theories or constructs to frame, analyze, and discuss musical issues that are presented orally or in written formats.
6. Clearly convey ideas in oral and written formats.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe current and previous experiences of musical performances, in both historical and contemporary contexts, in order to inform performance practice.
2. Describe their own performances with general descriptors of success and failure.
3. Identify and reproduce performance gestures in order to collaborate and coordinate musical performance with other musicians.
4. Show an awareness of present genres, styles, and performance traditions in order to identify appropriate professional conduct (such as rehearsal and concert etiquette) and methodologies.
5. Successfully reproduce a given musical style, reformulate a collection of available ideas, and recognize connections between previous experience and current performance in order to create a new musical interpretation.
6. Support a constructive team climate by treating other members with respect, maintaining positive attitude and interactions, and providing assistance and support for other team members in order to accomplish both regular rehearsal tasks and to create a successful final performance.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe current and previous experiences of musical performances, in both historical and contemporary contexts, in order to inform performance practice.
2. Describe their own performances with general descriptors of success and failure.
3. Identify and reproduce performance gestures in order to collaborate and coordinate musical performance with other musicians.
4. Show an awareness of present genres, styles, and performance traditions in order to identify appropriate professional conduct (such as rehearsal and concert etiquette) and methodologies.
5. Successfully reproduce a given musical style, reformulate a collection of available ideas, and recognize connections between previous experience and current performance in order to create a new musical interpretation.
6. Support a constructive team climate by treating other members with respect, maintaining positive attitude and interactions, and providing assistance and support for other team members in order to accomplish both regular rehearsal tasks and to create a successful final performance.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize and identify current repertoire of the instrument and/or performance tradition in order to have a well-rounded understanding of the field and genre at large.
2. Identify, develop, and (re)produce the appropriate technique and style to create a comprehensive performance in the student’s chosen genre and instrument/voice.
3. Expand, refine, and apply technique and interpretive capability in order to execute repertoire of increasing difficulty.
4. Distinguish what performance elements require improvement in a students’ own performance, and to co-ordinate a plan for practicing and improving these skills, thereby acquiring advanced performance skills.
5. Perform in public with a growing sense of competence and confidence.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize and identify current repertoire of the instrument and/or performance tradition in order to have a well-rounded understanding of the field and genre at large.
2. Identify, develop, and (re)produce the appropriate technique and style to create a comprehensive performance in the student’s chosen genre and instrument/voice.
3. Expand, refine, and apply technique and interpretive capability in order to execute repertoire of increasing difficulty.
4. Distinguish what performance elements require improvement in a students’ own performance, and to co-ordinate a plan for practicing and improving these skills, thereby acquiring advanced performance skills.
5. Perform in public with a growing sense of competence and confidence.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize and identify current repertoire of the instrument and/or performance tradition in order to have a well-rounded understanding of the field and genre at large.
2. Identify, develop, and (re)produce the appropriate technique and style to create a comprehensive performance in the student’s chosen genre and instrument/voice.
3. Expand, refine, and apply technique and interpretive capability in order to execute repertoire of increasing difficulty.
4. Distinguish what performance elements require improvement in a students’ own performance, and to co-ordinate a plan for practicing and improving these skills, thereby acquiring advanced performance skills.
5. Perform in public with a growing sense of competence and confidence.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize and identify current repertoire of the instrument and/or performance tradition in order to have a well-rounded understanding of the field and genre at large.
2. Identify, develop, and (re)produce the appropriate technique and style to create a comprehensive performance in the student’s chosen genre and instrument/voice.
3. Expand, refine, and apply technique and interpretive capability in order to execute repertoire of increasing difficulty.
4. Distinguish what performance elements require improvement in a students’ own performance, and to co-ordinate a plan for practicing and improving these skills, thereby acquiring advanced performance skills.
5. Perform in public with a growing sense of competence and confidence.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize and identify current repertoire of the instrument and/or performance tradition in order to have a well-rounded understanding of the field and genre at large.
2. Identify, develop, and (re)produce the appropriate technique and style to create a comprehensive performance in the student’s chosen genre and instrument/voice.
3. Expand, refine, and apply technique and interpretive capability in order to execute repertoire of increasing difficulty.
4. Distinguish what performance elements require improvement in a students’ own performance, and to co-ordinate a plan for practicing and improving these skills, thereby acquiring advanced performance skills.
5. Perform in public with a growing sense of competence and confidence.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply the theory through intelligible and expressive musical performance of various works in each language.
2. Demonstrate critical listening skills by analyzing and examining lyric diction in live and recorded performance.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of repertoire and style that is associated with each language and its place in the history of Western Music.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of the physiology and functional components in the normal production of sound.
5. Develop the critical skills necessary to carry out independent study after the course is completed.
6. Identify the principles of phonetics and the symbols that represent speech sounds, the International Phonetic Alphabet, and apply them to the teaching situation.
7. Recognize the grammatical structure and the characteristics of Italian, German, French and English lyric diction and distinguish and produce accurately a variety of vowel, consonant and other sounds unique to each language.
8. Transcribe text from English, French, German or Italian vocal repertoire into IPA symbols and vice versa.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand the performance aesthetic of different styles and genres of music theatre.
2. Develop skills in music direction, score preparation, and planning.
3. Explore the concepts of arranging, musical interpretation, and scoring in music theatre.
4. Build on the historical and cultural knowledge of music theatre exploring different genres and their implications for music direction.
5. Develop skills in musical leadership, including rehearsal design, auditioning, and working collaboratively with others.
6. Explore musical interpretation in the presentation of music theatre.
7. Gain an understanding of the use of new technologies in music theatre.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. List, compare, and critique historical and contemporary approaches to singing and acting.
2. Apply professional performance etiquettes and practices through varied preparation, rehearsal, and performance situations of operatic repertoire ranging from Handel to Livingston.
3. Follow given models and re-interpret and/or adapt them to the creation of individual audition materials.
4. Survey and report on the literature on decolonization in the arts, and anticipate ways that materials, relationships, and productions in the field might be adapted to integrate this knowledge.
5. Summarize engagements with industry professionals to integrate practical innovations in their own practice.
6. Employ personal and holistic ways of knowing through deep reflection on individual artistic practice and goals.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify key findings from music education literature and discuss how these ideas will influence your teaching.
2. Demonstrate proficiency on common elementary classroom instruments and digital applications.
3. Examine and critique teaching resources in light of curricular expectation and students' developmental ability and/or cultural contexts.
4. Identify the key components of lesson and unit planning and apply these principles in the development and implementation of teaching plans for the elementary student.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply your knowledge of music and music education to create musical activities that support musical engagement for a variety of populations.
2. Identify, examine, and analyse various community-based structures and programs that support music education across the lifespan.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Create a focused listening activity that directs students' attention to one of the elements of music. Implement a sequential set of activities to create a single unit of study. Specific topic and content will be at the discretion of the individual.
2. Create a listing of useful resources for teaching instrumental and vocal technique. This will be done through the creation of a personalized warm up routine and a skill development system.
3. Design and create a lesson plan for a creative music activity that requires the participants to manipulate sounds to create a new product.
4. Express, through the creation of a personal music educators belief statement, students' current beliefs, values and attitudes as they relate to teaching music.
5. Identify the common threads found in the current ministry music curriculum for grades 9 through 12.
6. Use the design down process to create a plan for a full course, synthesizing the concepts presents in the course to create, design and implement a meaningful active learning experience. This includes the implementation of the activity in a local school setting.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify appropriate strategies and resources for teaching the guitar in a classroom setting.
2. Perform scales, scale passages, melodies, chord voicings and arpeggios across the fretboard (open position to the 12th fret) in a variety of keys or modes
3. Read, arrange and compose music for guitar (and for ensembles that include guitar) using standard notation, tablature, fretboard diagrams and chord charts

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate originality and craft through the creation of original compositions primarily for instruments and/or voices or computer software by exploring a variety of techniques, genres and formats.
2. Develop knowledge of styles and trends in composition through the analysis and study of compositions related to a project that the student is working on.
3. Demonstrate a high level of understanding of musical notation, mixing, and/or editing using computer software and how to prepare polished scores and parts or recordings of their compositions.
4. Develop the time management and networking skills involved in conceiving, composing, securing performers, rehearsing and presenting a new musical composition.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate originality and craft through the creation of multiple original compositions primarily for instruments and/or voices or computer software by exploring a variety of techniques, genres and formats in an extended and in-depth manner.
2. Develop knowledge of styles and trends in composition through the analysis and study of compositions related to a project that the student is working on.
3. Demonstrate a high level of understanding of musical notation, mixing, and/or editing using computer software and how to prepare polished scores and parts or recordings of their compositions.
4. Develop the time management and networking skills involved in conceiving, composing, securing performers, rehearsing and presenting a new musical composition.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply the techniques of harmonizing chord tones and non chord tones using the various types of passing chords.
2. Combine 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 voices to create effective harmonic structures.
3. Combine musical voices to create chord voicings in open and closed structures using 2, 3 and 4 note combinations.
4. Create arrangements that use correct instrument and vocal ranges
5. Creating an easy play chart by developing a form map and arrangement plan for you product. Illustrate the manipulation of musical form as applied to a musical arrangement by organizing and creating a complete arrangement for a musical ensemble of your choice.
6. Demonstrate a complete understanding of all of the notation conventions used for creating a lead sheet by arranging and harmonizing a common melody.
7. Demonstrate the various conventions used when writing for the rhythm, saxophone, trumpet and trombone sections. These include unison, octave, 4/5 part block chords and counterpoint.
8. Identify, through active listening, the musical elements frequently manipulated to create a successful arrangement.
9. Interpret common chord symbol notation and analyze sound combinations to create chord symbols that represent the sounds used in your arrangements.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Conduct in a variety of musical styles with appropriate gestures within the world of choral or instrumental music.
2. Consider a musical ensemble from the perspective of the conductor rather than from that of a singer or instrumentalist.
3. Effectively choose and plan concert repertoire towards a desired artistic goal.
4. Effectively plan and organize rehearsal situations that support individual, collective, and artistic goals.
5. Listen critically to a vocal or instrumental ensemble while conducting and make necessary comments, corrections, and suggestions.
6. Master the advanced skills of conducting including developing skills in independent right and left-hand gestures, phrase shaping, cueing, hand position, use of asymmetrical rhythms, subdivisions, fermatas, changes in tempi, and dynamics.
7. Understand score marking and analysis as it relates to the position of the conductor.
8. Understand the multi-multifaceted role of the choral or instrumental conductor and how to successfully lead an ensemble.
9. Use appropriate musical language to convey ideas in rehearsal as they pertain to the role of conductor.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify, describe, and apply appropriate pedagogical strategies to suit the needs of students.
2. Create lesson plans to suit the needs of students you teach.
3. Sequence a series of lessons to support student learning.
4. Identify students’ learning and use this knowledge to inform subsequent lessons.
5. Critique and analyze your teaching experiences.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Examine, analyze, and synthesize various issues and ideas related to music and the arts using a variety of scholarly approaches or frameworks.
2. Convey ideas through various oral, written, and multi-media formats to various audiences and for different purposes.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Name, identify, and assess and critique various disciplines and methodologies in performing arts research order to choose appropriate strategies for enquiry.
2. Evaluate information sources and extrapolate data in order to assess their appropriate use in research.
3. Evaluate and compare research methodologies and critical theories in order to effectively design a research project.
4. Develop and refine communication methods in order to disseminate new knowledge.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the diversity of African musical forms through an introduction of several oral histories and dance styles.
2. Connect these traditions across the continent of Africa, and also differentiate them from each other.
3. Reflect upon what happened to these traditions because of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and identify what has emerged in the Americas (and elsewhere) since then.
4. Examine contemporary drama and music as well as the generations-old musical, dance, and oral storytelling forms at their root.
5. Synthesize their knowledge to demonstrate the interconnectedness of the past and the present, but also for the importance of music, dance, and drama to Afro-descendant people on the continent and in the diaspora.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the fundamentals of lyrical and kinaesthetic techniques through small and large ensemble performances of selections from the musical theatre canon.
2. Discuss readings, recordings and seminar material to compare and contrast the various techniques and styles of singer-dancers in musicals from different eras.
3. Analyze and discuss physically and vocally sound/appropriate techniques, in an accepting and open environment, through critical analysis of live and recorded performances.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the physiology and an appreciation for the health and care of the voice and body, including the physiological differences in various compositional and choreographic styles.
5. Examine principles of acting, such as diction, subtext, character development, conflict, process, an apply them to various pieces of repertoire in a workshop or master-class setting.
6. Develop a knowledge and critical understanding of the key concepts, methodologies, current advances, and theoretical approaches to musical theatre from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate acquired knowledge about the business aspects of the arts including financial planning.
2. Articulate critical thinking about the development of the professional arts in Canada.
3. Demonstrate acquired skills in various approaches to writing for the arts through weekly critical responses, the creation of a professional ‘pitch’ letter as well as the creation of a major document – the Personal Business Plan.
4. Articulate your ideas in class forums during the term.
5. Further develop as a life-long-learner by integrating the knowledge, skills and values that are addressed in this class.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate sources for scholarly significance in music and identify their relevance to both course content and other facets of musical interactions.
2. Recognize and formulate new perspectives in music listening, creation, and discussion and contextualize within cultural biases.
3. Make and articulate connections between Canada's social, political, and cultural history and communities, and how these impact the dissemination and production of music in Canada.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop performance composition and writing skills.
2. Apply performance, composition and writing skills to create a new music theatre production.
3. Apply knowledge of performance, composition and writing through critiques of other works.
4. Apply knowledge of performance, composition and writing to develop a rehearsal timeline and plans.
5. Develop knowledge and skills related to the music theatre production process (staging, direction, design, marketing).

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and label a passage of music in terms of harmony, form, tonal context and harmonic function, in order to parse music and locate important moments of articulation.
2. Apply research skills to gain insight on topics of interest in current scholarship and research from a diverse body of repertoire.
3. Articulate, in words (text or verbal), what is observed about a particular passage of music and to create an individual interpretation of a passage of music, citing specific elements from the music.
4. Explain, in text, how analysis decisions might affect performance decisions and why.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Complete analyses of contrapuntal works by annotating scores with structural labels and clear harmonic reductions.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of contrapuntal techniques by composing short creative exercises.
3. Develop their fluency in analytic writing through regular readings, short written assignments, and culminating in a final paper.
4. Justify their analytical decisions through explanatory prose.
5. Through listening, reading, and analysis, gain an understanding of historical models of contrapuntal writing from the 9th century to the present.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply musical skills or knowledge acquired in previous courses to a professional workplace situation.
2. Demonstrate professional level interpersonal and self-regulatory skills (including meeting workplace standards of behaviour, arriving on time, completing assigned tasks effectively and in a timely manner, asking for assistance when required.)
3. Synthesize new learning or insights from practical experience with existing theoretical knowledge.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Master, through written work, foundational concepts in orchestration which is achieved by systematically studying individual instruments of the orchestra.
2. Learn how to read an orchestral score and the conventions of copying your own scores and instrumental parts.
3. Develop skills in transcribing an existing composition for keyboard for an instrumental ensemble, preparing your own arrangements of an existing melody and creating and scoring a short original composition, all with the guidance of the professor.
4. Expand your knowledge and listening experience of existing orchestral music through focused listening tests.
5. Demonstrate your knowledge of orchestration through written analysis of an assigned score.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate technical facility with Virtual Instruments and Digital Audio Workstation Software by completing short technical exercises, and longer creative projects.
2. Through analysis of repertoire, gain an understanding of the techniques and principles of virtual and “real” orchestration in a variety of contexts, and demonstrate this understanding by applying such practices in their creative work.
3. Develop and apply techniques and strategies for the creation of new works in response to given materials (i.e., audio recordings, notated scores, visual media).
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of virtual instruments by creating their own sampler- and synthesizer-based virtual instruments for use in their creative work.
5. Demonstrate an ability to identify strengths, weaknesses, and pathways for improvement in their own creative work by completing written self-assessments of creative projects.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and label a passage of Renaissance music in terms of mode, motivic repetition, cadence, and other elements of form, and to thereby parse music and locate important moments of articulation.
2. Compose contrapuntal music 'from scratch' in the style of Renaissance sacred and secular music.
3. Improvise a melody against a cantus firmus with the voice, thereby building skills in creating improvised accompaniment to lead melodic lines.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and interpret the relationship between bass, harmony, and melodic voices in order to produce period-appropriate counterpoint.
2. Analyze and label a passage of music in terms of key, harmony, form, and imitation, and to thereby parse music and locate important moments of articulation.
3. Create melodic embellishment and variation on a given melody.
4. Identify and reproduce imitative form structures from the Baroque era.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe current and previous experiences of musical performances, in both historical and contemporary contexts, in order to inform performance practice.
2. Describe their own performances with general descriptors of success and failure.
3. Identify and reproduce performance gestures in order to collaborate and coordinate musical performance with other musicians.
4. Show an awareness of present genres, styles, and performance traditions in order to identify appropriate professional conduct (such as rehearsal and concert etiquette) and methodologies.
5. Successfully reproduce a given musical style, reformulate a collection of available ideas, and recognize connections between previous experience and current performance in order to create a new musical interpretation.
6. Support a constructive team climate by treating other members with respect, maintaining positive attitude and interactions, and providing assistance and support for other team members in order to accomplish both regular rehearsal tasks and to create a successful final performance.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize and identify current repertoire of the instrument and/or performance tradition in order to have a well-rounded understanding of the field and genre at large.
2. Identify, develop, and (re)produce the appropriate technique and style to create a comprehensive performance in the student’s chosen genre and instrument/voice.
3. Expand, refine, and apply technique and interpretive capability in order to execute repertoire of increasing difficulty.
4. Distinguish what performance elements require improvement in a students’ own performance, and to co-ordinate a plan for practicing and improving these skills, thereby acquiring advanced performance skills.
5. Perform in public with a growing sense of competence and confidence.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize and identify current repertoire of the instrument and/or performance tradition in order to have a well-rounded understanding of the field and genre at large.
2. Identify, develop, and (re)produce the appropriate technique and style to create a comprehensive performance in the student’s chosen genre and instrument/voice.
3. Expand, refine, and apply technique and interpretive capability in order to execute repertoire of increasing difficulty.
4. Distinguish what performance elements require improvement in a students’ own performance, and to co-ordinate a plan for practicing and improving these skills, thereby acquiring advanced performance skills.
5. Perform in public with a growing sense of competence and confidence.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize and identify current repertoire of the instrument and/or performance tradition in order to have a well-rounded understanding of the field and genre at large.
2. Identify, develop, and (re)produce the appropriate technique and style to create a comprehensive performance in the student’s chosen genre and instrument/voice.
3. Expand, refine, and apply technique and interpretive capability in order to execute repertoire of increasing difficulty.
4. Distinguish what performance elements require improvement in a students’ own performance, and to co-ordinate a plan for practicing and improving these skills, thereby acquiring advanced performance skills.
5. Perform in public with a growing sense of competence and confidence.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize and identify current repertoire of the instrument and/or performance tradition in order to have a well-rounded understanding of the field and genre at large.
2. Identify, develop, and (re)produce the appropriate technique and style to create a comprehensive performance in the student’s chosen genre and instrument/voice.
3. Expand, refine, and apply technique and interpretive capability in order to execute repertoire of increasing difficulty.
4. Distinguish what performance elements require improvement in a students’ own performance, and to co-ordinate a plan for practicing and improving these skills, thereby acquiring advanced performance skills.
5. Perform in public with a growing sense of competence and confidence.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize and identify current repertoire of the instrument and/or performance tradition in order to have a well-rounded understanding of the field and genre at large.
2. Identify, develop, and (re)produce the appropriate technique and style to create a comprehensive performance in the student’s chosen genre and instrument/voice.
3. Expand, refine, and apply technique and interpretive capability in order to execute repertoire of increasing difficulty.
4. Distinguish what performance elements require improvement in a students’ own performance, and to co-ordinate a plan for practicing and improving these skills, thereby acquiring advanced performance skills.
5. Perform in public with a growing sense of competence and confidence.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe and apply guiding principles in teaching and learning to develop and critique teaching resources.
2. Describe and apply guiding principles in teaching and learning to develop and critique teaching resources.
3. Develop and demonstrate growth in professional content and/or pedagogical knowledge.
4. Develop and demonstrate growth in professional content and/or pedagogical knowledge.
5. Identify and describe musical and pedagogical knowledge and skills required for music teachers.
6. Identify and describe musical and pedagogical knowledge and skills required for music teachers.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate a basic overview of Heinrich Schenker's ideologies through an introduction to his writings, and put these writings into the context of both his time and culture and our current time and culture.
2. Create melodic reductions by eliminating non-chord tones and chordal skips in order to determine the underlying framework and shape of a melody.
3. Develop their knowledge of harmonic function in order to apply these concepts to larger-scale analyses of complete works, thereby showing the most basic underlying harmonic structure.
4. Memorize and identify terminology specific to Schenkerian Analysis and be able to apply these concepts to analysis and reduction.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply a variety of musical analysis procedures that focus on both small passages and large-scale structure in areas such as harmonic vocabulary, tonal design, thematic content, counterpoint and orchestration in written assignments.
2. Appraise the written comments of their peers, thereby assisting their peers in improving their own research and writing as well also receiving constructive criticism on their own work and comments.
3. Explain and illustrate how the historical context and other non-musical factors influenced a composer in the creation of their music.
4. Independently design, research and complete an analysis paper on an assigned movement based on procedures studied in class.
5. Recognize and differentiate between the salient characteristics of compositions gained through intensive listening and score study.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and label a passage of music in terms of harmony, form, tonal context, and harmonic function, in order to parse music and locate important moments of articulation.
2. Apply critical thinking skills to musical scores and recordings to select methods of meaningful engagement with this repertoire through a variety of analytical lenses - expressed through written, verbal, and performance means.
3. Articulate, in words (text or verbal), what is observed about a particular passage of music and to create an individual interpretation of a passage of music, citing specific elements from the music.
4. Combine skills in research, writing, and critical thought to pursue a project on a significant topic involving music from the 20th and/or 21st centuries.
5. Explain, in text, how analysis decisions might affect performance decisions and why.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate a sophisticated level originality and craft through the creation of original compositions primarily for instruments and/or voices or computer software by exploring a variety of techniques, genres and formats
2. Develop a high level of knowledge of styles and trends in composition through the analysis and study of compositions related to a project that the student is working on.
3. Demonstrate advanced understanding of musical notation, mixing, and/or editing using computer software and how to prepare polished scores and parts or recordings of their compositions.
4. Develop the time management and networking skills involved in conceiving, composing, securing performers, rehearsing and presenting a new musical composition.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate a sophisticated level originality and craft through the creation of original compositions primarily for instruments and/or voices or computer software by exploring a variety of techniques, genres and formats.
2. Develop a high level of knowledge of styles and trends in composition through the analysis and study of compositions related to a project that the student is working on.
3. Demonstrate advanced understanding of musical notation, mixing, and/or editing using computer software and how to prepare polished scores and parts or recordings of their compositions.
4. Develop the time management and networking skills involved in conceiving, composing, securing performers, rehearsing and presenting a new musical composition.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate a deep understanding of the intellectual and creative underpinnings of hip hop as Black music and culture
2. Analyze hip hop in deep conversation with Black studies
3. Offer complex and nuanced arguments about Black popular cultures, that do not classify and calcify the works in dichotomous (emancipatory or oppressive) terms
4. Critically analyze dominant histories enshrined by modernity and nation-state building projects in the west, and
5. Evaluate the politics of knowledge and knowledge production

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Connect theory to both textual analysis and performance analysis.
2. Advocate for the value of performance in times of crisis, as well as its challenges, in both verbal and written forms.
3. Build broader community connections by drawing on consultations with industry professionals.
4. Theorize, conceptualize, and create a mini performance intervention that responds to the COVID crisis, thus applying and adapting learning from case studies.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and critique relationships between these key socio-cultural concepts in the field at both the individual and societal level within the context of popular music.
2. Explore and provide working definitions of key socio-cultural concepts ("sex", "gender" etc.) and to understand them at the intersection of race, ethnicity, class and ability.
3. Identify how these concepts both shape and are shaped by popular music practices.
4. Learn to lead discussions on assigned readings and support students as they analyze and synthesize concepts within small group work.
5. To evaluate informational sources and question these sources and their validity.
6. To learn to analyze information and concepts, formulate strong questions and propose compelling arguments in a research-based paper.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze how sound and music are used to shape our ideological perspectives at both the individual and societal level.
2. Evaluate informational sources and question these sources and their validity.
3. Explore how, through contemporary media, sound and music shape our experience of everyday life within Western culture.
4. Identify the functions of sound and music within contemporary media.
5. Learn to analyze information and concepts, formulate strong questions and propose compelling arguments in a research-based paper.
6. Learn to lead discussions on assigned readings and support students as they analyze and synthesize concepts within small group work.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Combine and synthesize existing ideas in original ways, characterized by a high level of innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.
2. Demonstrate effective communication skills in both oral and written forms, using appropriate, relevant and compelling language to convey an understanding of the material.
3. Display habits of mind characterized by the exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion.
4. Effectively define the scope of a research question and access relevant information using effective, well-designed search strategies and appropriate information sources.