Courses
Music Cognition
This course presents an overview of major topics in the interdisciplinary study of music cognition.
City Blues
When songwriter/poets portray a city through the blues, they choose gritty lyrics to reflect its tough side.
Group Dynamics
Understanding group dynamics and how to build positive and effective group interactions are key for any musician who will ever perform or work with others.
Existential Psychoanalytic Theory and Life
The course examines psychoanalysis and existential therapy. Students learn both traditional and current developments in the field.
History of Political Thought
This course surveys the history of political thought from the time of ancient Greece to the modern era.
Spanish 1
This course covers basic grammar, composition, and cultural reading selections. The emphasis is on pronunciation and conversational Spanish.
Aesthetics
This course will examine the nature of art and aesthetics as presented in the German Idealist Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, one of the major philosophers instrumental in the formation of modern ae
Modern Political Thought
This course surveys the major ideological movements of our time. Students will understand the principal ideas and practices of nationalism, fascism, communism, and democracy.
Spanish 2
A continuation of LSPN-161, this course covers more advanced grammar, composition, and reading selections. Emphasis continues on pronunciation and conversational Spanish.
Philosophy of Education
This course is an introduction to the method and spirit of philosophical inquiry involving the exploration of idealism, realism, pragmatism, and existentialism, and the application of such inquiry
Irish and Celtic Culture, Film, and Music
This interdisciplinary course is a study of how writers,filmmakers, musicians, political figures, and Irish (and Irish-American) citizens continue to struggle with the diversity and tensions of Iri
Spanish 3
Spanish 3 develops the language skills built in Spanish 1 and 2. Students learn Latin American and Spanish culture, including music and literature.
Africana Philosophy
In this course, students explore Africana philosophy, beginning with the ancient Egyptians and moving through the diversity of the human condition within the continent of Africa itself, as well as
City Life: Local and Global Perspectives
As musicians, you will be visiting, working in, and probably living in cities. Questions this course tackles include: What makes a city work? How does a city inspire the artist?
Spanish 4
Spanish 4 is a continuation of Spanish 3 as students develop advanced language skills through readings and analyses of literature and cinema.
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
This course introduces cultural anthropology, which is the study of living peoples, their beliefs, practices, values, ideas, technologies, economies, and more.
Identity
This interdisciplinary course examines concepts of identity through the perspectives offered by biology, Western and Eastern psychology, social psychology, gender studies, cross-cultural studies, r
Curso intensivo
Curso intensivo provides a "crash course" in Spanish language and culture.
General Psychology
This course is a survey of the history, theory, and applications of general psychology, including the study of human behavior, factors in psychological development, methods of measurement, and the
New Blues for the Old South: Southern Culture and Change
This interdisciplinary sociology and writing course explores the changing times, attitudes and music in the South.