Performing Arts - Music
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Students pursuing the Associate of Arts in Performing Arts with a Music Concentration are expected to demonstrate the ability to listen and appraise, perform, compose, and arrange music. The goal of the programme is to enhance the student’s performance and creation of music.
Ensemble Requirement: Performing Arts students are required to be members of at least one ensemble for the duration of their academic studies with the institution. Those ensembles will grant 1 credit per semester towards graduation.
Notes: Applicants holding a CSEC Theatre Arts Certificate or a Royal School of Music will be allowed to challenge certain introductory courses.
Electives: Students may choose from any one of the following courses: DAN 1xx, Any 100-Level Dance Course, DRA 1xx, Any 100-Level Drama Course, ENG 107, Elements of Literature, FLM 100, Introduction to Film Studies, HUM 205, Advanced Leadership Studies, or MUS 160, Drama and Musical Theatre Workshop.
Programme Goals
Demonstrate the ability to evaluate and make judgments about aesthetic quality; to critique performances from multiple perspectives.
Develop an understanding of the spiritual, moral, ethical, social, and cultural issues linked with the performing arts.
Demonstrate effective communication skills, intellectual discipline, imaginative thinking, and effective time management in managing the process involved in realising an idea.
Produce and communicate clear and effective arguments and ideas formed independently.
Demonstrate the ability to utilise appropriate technology in discussing their discipline.
Demonstrate an understanding of the terms and forms of their chosen concentration through studying the elements, structures, and characteristics of each particular art form.
Suggested Sequence of Courses
