Curriculum
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Requirements | 45 | |
| Major Requirements | 51 | |
| Social Science Requirements | 6 | |
| Alverno Music Therapy Courses | 38 | |
| Total Hours | 140 | |
Major Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Core Courses | ||
BIO 1300 |
Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology
This is a course for non-biology majors. It surveys the major organ systems in the human body from both a structural and functional perspective. Laboratory course. | |
or CHEM 1204 | Elements of General and Biological Chemistry | |
| Required Courses | ||
MUS 2204 |
Keyboard Skills
Keyboard Skills intends to improve musicianship through application of the keyboard as a learning tool. Keyboard technique, sightreading at the piano, harmonization of melodies, performance of scales and harmonic progressions, simple accompanying, and improvisation will be elements of this class. This course is offered in the fall semester, and is open to music majors and minors. Completion of this class with a grade of “C” or above satisfies the music department’s keyboard proficiency requirement.
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MUS 1130 |
Guitar Class
Guitar Class is a beginning level introduction to the guitar with an emphasis on basic note reading, flat-pick technique, and playing basic chords as accompaniment to songs. Basic music theory as it pertains to note reading is also included. Previous knowledge of music and guitar is not required.
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MUS 2304 |
Applied Guitar
Applied Guitar is the pedagogical and performance study of guitar in a half-hour (for one credit) or an hour (for two credits) individual lesson each week. This course emphasizes note reading, chords, pick-style technique, and classical (fingerstyle) technique. Also included is the application of these techniques to the preparation and presentation of song melody and accompaniment. | |
| MUS 1241 |
Music Theory I
Music Theory I enables students to explore musical concepts through analysis, sightsinging, aural training, and composition. Harmonic studies include primary chords in root position and cadential preparations. | 3 |
| MUS 1251 |
Aural Theory I
Aural Theory I provides students with the knowledge to read at sight, notate, and improvise short musical examples. | 1 |
| MUS 1262 |
Music Theory II
Music Theory II is a continuation of Music Theory I with special emphasis on primary chords in inversion, seventh chords, secondary dominants and chromatic materials. | 3 |
| MUS 1272 |
Aural Theory II
Aural Theory II provides students with the knowledge to read at sight, notate, and improvise short musical examples. | 1 |
| MUS 2241 |
Music Theory III
Music Theory III is a continuation of Music Theory II with special emphasis on secondary functions, modulation, altered chords, and chromatic harmony. | 3 |
| MUS 2251 |
Aural Theory III
Aural Theory III provides students with the knowledge to read at sight, notate, and improvise short musical examples. | 1 |
| MUS 2262 |
Music Theory IV
Music Theory IV continuation of Music Theory III with special emphasis on extended harmonies, formal analysis, and twentieth century techniques. | 3 |
| MUS 2272 |
Aural Theory IV
Aural Theory IV provides students with the knowledge to read at sight, notate, and improvise short musical examples. | 1 |
| MUS 2220 |
Body-Mapping for Musicians
This course is designed to provide musicians with anatomical information about the body in movement. This information, when applied, will promote facility among participants and will assist students in playing, singing, and conducting without pain, tension, or injury. This course will serve to provide a somatic based music education and practice. | 2 |
| MUS 3270 |
World Music History
This course introduces student musicians to the historical context of Western Music in relation to historically Non-Western Musics. It also traces the development of Non-Western cultures in developing idiomatic and geographical musics. | 3 |
| MUS 3271 |
Music History I
Music History I surveys the history of music from the Medieval through the Baroque periods; introduces and develops the musical forms pertinent to the respective periods, as well as their parallel correlation to the artistic, literary, architectural, and socio-economic aspects of general historical development; encourages, develops, and reinforces analytical and research skills. | 3 |
| MUS 3272 |
Music History II
Music History II surveys the history of Western Civilization’s concert music from the Pre-Classical Period through the end of the Romantic Period (ca. 1900). Additionally, it introduces and explores the musical forms pertinent to the respective style periods, as well as their parallel correlations to the artistic, literary, architectural, and socio-economic aspects of general historical development. | 3 |
| MUS 3273 |
Music History III
Music History III blends the study of traditional Twentieth-Century concert music with an introduction to the wide variety of music traditions from around the globe. It discusses the manner in which music symbolizes a people’s way of life and represents a distillation of cultural style. Further, it explores how changing technologies shape the sounds, settings, and significance of music experience. The course is designed to create a dialogue between traditional Western concert music and global music in an interactive context. | 3 |
| MUS 3450 |
Beginning Conducting
Beginning Conducting presents the fundamental and working knowledge of rudimentary conducting principles including baton techniques, beat patterns, analytical skills, non-verbal expression and fundamental gesture. This course will also introduce some of the essential administrative duties germane to the ensemble director. | 2 |
| MUS 3455 |
Techniques of Teaching Voice
Techniques of Teaching Voice presents the tripartite nature of the singing instrument; focusing on the physiology of the laryngeal structure and its function, the mechanics of the breath apparatus as applied to the singing voice and most importantly, the relationship of mind and body. This course allows the student to gain practical experience in applying the concepts acquired in this course. | 1 |
| MUS 3458 |
Techniques of Teaching Percussion
Techniques of Teaching Percussion includes instruction in the pedagogy of percussion playing and teaching. This course will survey the art and practice of percussion playing relative to snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, timpani and keyboard mallet percussion. This course is designed to prepare future music educators by emphasizing basic techniques in percussion pedagogy for these instruments from elementary to high school. This course is part of the K-12 instrumental music education curriculum. | 1 |
| MUS 4445 |
Composing and Arranging
Composing and Arranging explores the role of the musician as composer and arranger. Assignments related to the specific needs of the parish and school: orchestration, harmonization, arrangement and composition of original material. | 3 |
| MUS 4499 |
Senior Recital
Senior Recital is a required public solo performance by music students on a major instrument. This public solo performance requires 50 minutes of solo performance on a culmination of repertoire studied in the Concordia University undergraduate studio. | 1 |
| Applied Music (Minimum 2 credits each semester in principal area) | 13 | |
| Ensemble - choose from list below 2 | 0 | |
MUS 3170 |
Jazz Ensemble
Jazz Ensemble students study and perform the repertoire of the various jazz idioms including swing, be-bop, big band and contemporary fusion. The ensemble seeks to provide a comprehensive study of the performance repertoire for both players and appreciation by the audiences. Membership is by audition only. | |
MUS 3177 |
Falcon Pep Band
Pep Band is an ensemble playing a repertoire of high-energy, high-volume popular music performed at designated home football and basketball games. | |
MUS 3180 |
Chapel Ringers
Chapel Ringers consists of 11-13 handbell ringers and performs primarily for on-campus chapel services and concerts at CUW. Membership is by audition only - preferably for the entire academic year. | |
MUS 3181 |
University Band
University Band is an instrumental ensemble that gives students the opportunity to continue to use instrumental musical skills on campus at CUW in a concert band setting. University Band performs a repertoire of sacred and secular music at concerts throughout the academic year. Membership is by audition only. | |
MUS 3182 |
Chapel Choir
Chapel Choir is a mixed-voice ensemble of up to 90 voices which sings in several major on-campus settings and for weekly chapel services at CUW. Open to all students, faculty and staff. Membership is by audition only. | |
MUS 3183 |
Selah
Selah is a select ensemble for women’s voices that performs at a variety of campus and off-campus activities at CUW. Preference is given to those who demonstrate solid choral background. Ordinarily participation is expected for the entire academic year. Membership is by audition only. | |
MUS 3184 |
Concordia Civic Chorale
This is a large mixed ensemble that sings for on-campus performances at CUW. Open to all students, faculty and staff, alumni, and community members. Membership is by audition only. | |
MUS 3185 |
String Ensemble/Chamber Orchestra
String Ensemble is the performing university string ensemble which performs concerts throughout the academic year at CUW. The ensemble maintains a repertoire of historical music significance from the standard orchestral repertoire from 1600 to the present. The dual format provides a string ensemble in the Fall semester then adding requisite winds, brass and percussion personnel for larger symphonic works during the Spring semester. | |
MUS 4181 |
Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Symphonic Wind Ensemble is the premiere university instrumental ensemble at CUW which performs concerts throughout the academic year. The ensemble maintains a repertoire of both secular and sacred music, and performs in both worship and concert settings. Participation in annual winter tour is required. Membership is by audition only. | |
MUS 4184 |
Kammerchor
Kammerchor is a highly select mixed voice ensemble which performs at a variety of campus and off-campus activities at CUW and takes an annual tour. Preference is given to sophomores through seniors, or to those who demonstrate solid choral background. Participation is expected for the entire academic year. Membership is by audition only. | |
MUS 4185 |
Alleluia Ringers
The Alleluia Ringers is a select handbell choir of 13-14 ringers which performs in worship and concert settings both on- and off-campus at CUW. Selection is by audition only, and for the entire academic year. | |
| Total Hours | 51 | |
- 1
Proficiency-based: This course is required based on skill level. Students who do not pass a proficiency test on this instrument may be required to take this course. This may change credit totals for Music Therapy Majors who are not already proficient in Keyboard or Guitar or both.
- 2
Participation in ensembles is required every semester while in residency. All music majors and minors audit ensembles.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Social Science Requirements | ||
| PSY 2300 |
Life Span Development
This course covers changes throughout the life span from conception until death. Of primary importance are the changes that occur within the three domains of development—the physical, the cognitive, and the socio-emotional. | 3 |
| PSY 4250 |
Abnormal Psychology
This course studies behavioral disorders in adults and children with special emphasis on the effects of social conditions and social change on the nature and incidence of maladaptive behaviors in American society and an emphasis on the major contemporary approaches to therapy used in the treatment of these disorders. | 3 |
| Total Hours | 6 | |