General Information

• Name: Music Appreciation
• Discipline: Music (MUS)
• Units (Credits): 3
• Schedule History: See when this course was offered over the last three years.
• Transfer Information: Courses with numbers 100 to 299: This course is designed to apply toward a WNC degree and/or transfer to other schools within the Nevada System of Higher Education, depending on the degree chosen and other courses completed. It may transfer to colleges and universities outside Nevada. For information about how this course can transfer and apply to your program of study, please contact a counselor.
• Academic Division: Communications and Fine Arts
• Prerequisites: None

Course Outline

I: Catalog Course Description

Analyzes styles and forms of music from the Middle Ages through the 20th century, and discusses musical instruments and major composers.

II: Course Objectives

By the completion of the class, the students should, with an accuracy of 75%:

• Know the representative forms, styles and major composers from all of the eras of music history.
• Be able to correlate musical style with trends in art and literature
• Be able to aurally identify music by era.

III: Course Linkage

Linkage of course to educational program mission and at least one educational program outcome.

Students should:

1. Know the subject matter appropriate to the musical theater degree.
2. Succeed at transfer institutions
3. Understand the importance of cultural traditions, diversity, and ethics in the
modern world.
4. Have an understanding of fine arts or performing arts.

Personal Development
• develop creative capacities

Communicity Commitment
• participate in a cultural of artistic event
• appreciate the unique role of the fine arts and humanities in the development of cultural values