CURRENT and RECENT COURSES at UC Santa Cruz
For the Department of Music
Music 14: Beginning Theory and Musicianship II [Spring 2010]
Music 30A: Theory, Literature, and Musicianship I [Fall 2010, 2012]
Advanced Music Theory and Musicianship
- Music 130: Advanced Study of Harmony and Form in Western Art Music [Fall 2011]
- Music 150P: Special Topic: Melody & Form in Popular Song [Spring 2012]
- Music 150S: Special Topic: Techniques in Late-tonal and Post-tonal Composition and Analysis [Winter 2010, taught as 100B]
- Music 150C: Special Topic: Tonal Structure, Counterpoint, and Style Analysis [Spring 2009, taught as 100C]
US Popular Music Teaching Practicum, MUS/AMST 199: Discussion Leadership and Writing Mentorship in Music 11C / AMST 80F.
Seminar in Music Perception [Music 206D, for the PhD in Music and the DMA in Composition — Spring 2009]
New Horizons Field Study [Music 199F: Music Education Service Learning, ongoing at New Horizons School for Homeless and Home-transitioning Students; ongoing]
Guest lecturing in 197: An Archaeology of Rock and Roll
Music 253B: Rhythm, Time, and Form [Winter 2013]
Music 254Q: Dialogues and Questions—Writing at the Intersection of Theory and Practice [crosslisted as DANM 202 (core theory/practice seminar) Spring 2010, 2011, 2012]
For the M.F.A. in Digital Arts / New Media
Empirical Approaches to Information in the Arts [DA/NM 254I, Fall 2007]
DA/NM 202: Dialogues and Questions—Writing at the Intersection of Theory and Practice [crosslisted as MUS-254Q (elective) Spring 2010, 2011, 2012]
DA/NM 250C: Issues in Locative and Adaptive Composition
For the American Studies program
U.S. Popular Cultures: Introduction to American Popular Music [AMST 80F / MUS 11C; Fall 2007, 2008, 2009].
See also “American Popular Music Teaching Practicum”, above: cross listed as AMST 199/99.
