MUSC 160 - Songwriting and Music Composition 1

1. Identify terms and concepts related to music composition and songwriting. (Assignments)
2. Analyze music using basic music theory knowledge. (Assignments, Projects)

3. Compose music using historical and contemporary composition techniques (Assignments, Projects)

4. Apply basic computer music skills to professional music notation software. (Projects)

1. Demonstrate knowledge of historical genres and styles beyond current trends in Music. This will be assessed through assignments.
2. Demonstrate a deeper understanding of musical experience through active engagement with critical listening and discourse. This will be assessed through assignments.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
• Diversity and Equity - In order to advance equity and social justice, students will be able to examine their own and others’ identities, behaviors, and/or cultural perspectives as they connect to power, privilege, and/or resistance.