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Course curriculum

  • 1

    Getting Started

    • How to use this course

    • Introduction to HUM 101 Online

    • Syllabus

    • Syllabus Walk Through

    • Collaborate with your peers online

    • Accessing the Online Community

    • Course Resources and Links

    • A Note About Quizzes

    • Work Hard on the Following Question
  • 2

    Introduction to learning (online) -

    • Work Hard on the Following Question

    • An Important Question

    • Prime Your Mind for Learning

    • Generating History

    • Generate More

    • I Practice What I Preach

    • You create the answers

    • You create the answers - Quiz
  • 3

    Questions to get started

    • Questions to get started

    • What were those questions about?

  • 4

    The second step in the process

    • In your own words, a survey

    • Elaboration

    • Practice what you preach: elaboration

    • A note about the next question...

    • An elaborative-generative question
  • 5

    The third step in the process

    • Are memories related?

    • Everything Is one

    • Mapping

    • Learn Mapping Quiz

    • Mapping Maps

    • Geniuses Use Maps and So Should You
  • 6

    What does this all have to do with Intro To Music? - Due Saturday, March 12, 2022

    • The daily class outline

    • The daily class outline

    • Wrap up

    • Share in the community
  • 7

    Introduction to Music

    • What is music?

    • Music

    • Elaborate on Music
  • 8

    The 7 Elements of Music - Due Saturday March 19, 2022

    • Overview: The 7 Elements of Music

    • Rhythm

    • Melody

    • Harmony

    • Dynamic

    • Brass Instruments

    • Woodwind Instruments

    • String Instruments

    • Keyboard Instruments

    • Texture

    • Form
  • 9

    Quiz Next Week - - Due Saturday Mar 19, 2022

    • Survey

    • Upcoming Quiz

    • Practice Quiz
  • 10

    Quiz Time! - Quiz #1

    • Prepare to test smart

    • Quiz #1 Rules and Protocol

    • Quiz #1 - Graded
  • 11

    A Brief Overview

    • What comes next

    • A very brief overview
  • 12

    PostModernism - Due March 22, 2022

    • What is postmodernism?

    • Generate: Postmoderism vs. Modernism

    • Etic or Emic?

    • Survey: Etic/Emic?

    • Insider or Outsider?

    • Survey: Inside or outside?
  • 13

    Oceania - Due April 2

    • Haplo groups and migrations

    • Where and what is Oceania

    • Dreaming

    • Dreaming to Dancing

    • What is this didjeridu music about?

    • Aboriginal Dance

    • What do you think of aboriginal dance?

    • Emic Aboriginal

    • Revisiting the dreaming

    • The Men of the Fifth World

    • How does this relate to your papers?
  • 14

    Oceania Part 2 - Due Monday April 11

    • Midterm Date Changed to April 21

    • Midterm Guide

    • Midterm Guide Walkthrough

    • Music or Not?

    • Watch this Maori Haka

    • Haka Questions

    • Watch another Maori Haka, this time with subtitles.

    • Haka Questions 2

    • The adrenaline response
  • 15

    Writing Day!

    • Intro To Writing Day

    • Download Midterm Essay Guide

    • Generate: Good Writing

    • Midterm Essay Requirements

    • How to use Google Docs

    • Draft Outline - Midterm Essay

    • Outlining The Midterm

    • Completed Outline - Midterm Essay

    • Survey: Writing Day
  • 16

    Submit Your Midterm Essay - Due THURSDAY April 21 2022

    • Midterm Submission Info

    • Upload your midterm essay

    • Optional: Upload midterm document link
  • 17

    Hawaii - Due April 24

    • Hawaii - Preconceptions

    • The music of Hawaii

    • Hula, another view

    • Two different versions of Hula

    • Brief History of Hawaii
  • 18

    China - Due May 15

    • China - The 4 Great Inventions

    • Thinking about the 4 great inventions?

    • 4 Great inventions and the West

    • Chinese Instruments Intro

    • Spring River Flower Moon Night - Performed on Guzheng

    • Reaction to the Guzheng

    • White Snow in Spring - Performed on Pipa

    • Reaction to the Pipa

    • Guqin, Erhu, Suona

    • What is Chinese Music?

    • Brief History of China

    • Confucianism

    • How does Confucianism change your view of the music you have heard?

    • Scholars and the Qin

    • Scholarly Music

    • Other types of music

    • Turkic Uygur Folk Music

    • What is classical music?

    • Classical vs. Folk

    • The Forbidden City

    • The Peking Opera

    • Classical, Religious, or Folk?

    • China: Wrapping up
  • 19

    The Music of India

    • Introduction to Indian Music

    • Indian Dynasty

    • Indian Religions

    • Difference between Carnatic and Hindustani Music

    • Why 2?

    • The two

    • Hindustani Classical Form

    • Carnatic Music

    • Identify the Structural Monents
  • 20

    Upload Your Final + Quiz 2 - Due Saturday, June 11, 2022

    • Upload your final essay

    • Optional: Upload final document link