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ARBC 223 Arab Music Workshop 1 credits
Through music making, this workshop introduces students to Arab music and some of its distinctive features, such as microtonality, modality (maqam), improvisation (taqsim) and rhythmic patterns (iqa’at). Students may elect to participate playing on an instrument they already play, or elect to study the oud (the Arab lute). Ouds and percussion instruments will be provided.
ARBC 222 required.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
- ARBC 222
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ARTS 110 Observational Drawing 6 credits
A beginning course for non-majors and for those who contemplate majoring in art. The aim of the course is to give the student an appreciation of art and of drawing. An understanding of aesthetic values and development of technical skills are achieved through a series of studio problems which naturally follow one another and deal with the analysis and use of line, shape, volume, space, and tone. A wide range of subjects are used, including still life, landscape and the human figure.
Sophomore Priority; Three seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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ARTS 113 Field Drawing 6 credits
A beginning drawing course for students who are interested in developing their skills in drawing from nature, to better see and understand their surroundings. Class material covers line, form, dimension, value, perspective, and space using a variety of drawing materials. Subject matter includes specimens, plant forms, and the landscape. Students will use a portable sketchbook, and classes during the second part of the term are primarily outside. Locations include the Arb and field trips; access to these sites does include walking on unpaved paths and uneven terrain.
Sophomore Priority; Two seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration.
- Fall 2024, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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ARTS 122 Introduction to Sculpture 6 credits
The ability to build structures that reflect or alter the environment is a basic defining characteristic of our species. In this class we explore creative construction in three dimensions using a variety of media, including plaster, wood, and steel. Using both natural and architectural objects for inspiration, we will examine and manipulate form, space, and expressive content to develop a deeper understanding of this core trait and reawaken our experience of the spaces we inhabit.
Sophomore Priority; Three seats held for Art and Art History majors until the first day of sophomore registration. Extra Time Required for field trip
- Fall 2024, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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ARTS 124 Elements of 3D Art and Design 6 credits
This 3D foundations course will engage students in learning to articulate and dissect the elements of three-dimensional design. Using metal, wire, clay, wood and found objects, students will construct and fabricate three dimensional objects while developing an understanding of visual language and its power to tell a story or convey a message. 3D modeling software will be explored as a way to conceptualize ideas before creating them in physical media. Students will study examples of historical and contemporary artists and designers to provide context for their projects.
Sophomore Priority; Three seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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ARTS 130 Beginning Ceramics 6 credits
This course is an introduction to wheel throwing and handbuilding as primary methods of construction for both functional and non-functional ceramic forms. An understanding of ceramic history and technical skills are achieved through studio practice, readings, and demonstrations. Emphasis is placed on the development of strong three-dimensional forms as well as the relationship of form to surface. Coursework includes a variety of firing techniques and development of surface design.
Sophomore Priority; Three seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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ARTS 139 Beginning Photography 6 credits
In this course students explore photography as a means of understanding and interacting with both the world and the inner self. We will emphasize a balance of technical skills, exploration of personal vision, and development of critical thinking and vocabulary relating to photography. Beginning students will learn how to use analogue and digital cameras, to use basic studio lighting equipment, and to print their own photographic work. Additionally, students will learn to develop a portfolio as an ongoing process that requires informed and critical decision making to assemble a body of work. Collectively we will critique, analyze, give feedback on work, and discuss readings that are pertinent to the production of images in contemporary times.
Sophomore Priority; Two seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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ARTS 142 The Book as Art Object 6 credits
With books we understand, in a contained object, specific qualities that an author conveys through composition, sequence, and information in an art form. Students will balance the cultivation of technical skills with exploration of personal vision in the creation and conceptualization of a series of books taking into consideration the diverse students’ disciplines. The class incorporates both digital and analog book technologies. We will analyze an array of publications from classical to contemporary artist book, the journal, the fanzine, the comic book, the pulp, and the pamphlet. We will pay special attention to the conceptual space of the book, sequencing and layout of images, production, materials and distribution of books. Topics include the discussion of the decline and resurgence of the physical book, the poetics of the books, the book as metaphor, the conceptual space of the book, and books as narrative and non-narrative sequences.
Sophomore Priority, Two seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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ARTS 151 Metalsmithing 6 credits
A basic course in metal design and fabrication of primarily jewelry forms and functional objects. Specific instruction will be given in developing the skills of forming, joining, and surface enrichment to achieve complex metal pieces. Students will learn to render two-dimensional drawings while exploring three-dimensional design concepts. The course examines how jewelry forms relate to the human body. Found materials will be used in addition to traditional metals including copper, brass, and silver.
Sophomore Priority; Three seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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ARTS 212 Studio Art Seminar in the South Pacific: Mixed-Media Drawing 6 credits
This course involves directed drawing in bound sketchbooks, using a variety of drawing media, and requires ongoing, self-directed drawing in these visual journals. Subjects will include landscape, nature study, figure, and portraits. The course will require some hiking in rugged areas.
Participation in Carleton OCS South Pacific Program
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Acceptance in the Studio Art in the South Pacific Program and the student has completed any of the following courses: ARTS 110 – Observational drawing or ARTS 113 – Field Drawing or ARTS 114 – Introduction to Drawing Architecture with a grade of C- or better or equivalent.
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ARTS 230 Ceramics: Throwing 6 credits
This course is focused on the creative possibilities of the pottery wheel as a means to create utilitarian objects. Students are challenged to explore conceptual ideas while maintaining a dedication to function. An understanding of aesthetic values and technical skills are achieved through studio practice, readings, and demonstrations. Basic glaze and clay calculations, high fire and wood kiln firing techniques, and a significant civic engagement component, known as the Empty Bowls Project, are included in the course.
Two seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): ARTS 130 – Beginning Ceramics or ARTS 236 – Ceramics: Vessels for Tea with a grade of C- or better.
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ARTS 241 Identity, Community and Photography 6 credits
In this course, students will explore the power of visual imagery to shape, reflect, and challenge societal perceptions of identity. Emphasizing a balance of technical skills, personal vision, and critical thinking, the course encourages students to develop their own photographic voice. Students will be challenged to question, explore, and express their own identities through photography. Throughout the course, students will apply their technical and critical thinking skills to create a major project centered on their identity. They will be introduced to photographers from around the world who challenge stereotypes and amplify underrepresented voices, offering inspiration and context for their work. Expected preparation: some familiarity with photography or art in general.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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ARTS 252 Metalsmithing: Ancient Technology- New Technologies 6 credits
This course focuses on lost wax casting, 3D modeling and printing, and stone setting as methods to create jewelry and small sculptural objects in bronze and silver. Specific instruction will be given in the proper use of tools, torches, and other equipment, wax carving, and general metalsmithing techniques. Through the use of 3D modeling software and 3D printing, new technologies will expedite traditional processes allowing for a broad range of metalworking possibilities.
Two seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): ARTS 151 – Metalsmithing with a grade of C- or better.
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ARTS 260 Painting 6 credits
The course serves as an introduction to the language of painting. Students develop a facility with the physical tools of painting–brushes, paint and surfaces–as they gain a fluency with the basic formal elements of the discipline–color, form, value, composition and space. Students are also challenged to consider the choices they make in determining the content and ideas expressed in the work, and how to most effectively convey them.
3 spots reserved for Studio Art or Art History majors until registration begins for students who have not declared a major.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): ARTS 110 – Observational Drawing, ARTS 113 – Field Drawing or ARTS 114 – Introduction to Drawing Architecture with grade of C- or better or equivalent.
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ARTS 262 Watercolor 6 credits
This course provides an introduction to the medium of watercolor painting and gouache (opaque water-based paint) on paper surfaces. Students will develop an understanding of basic color interactions and a wide spectrum of paint application strategies from meticulous refined brushwork to fluid, expressive markmaking.
Two seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): ARTS 110 – Observational Drawing, ARTS 113 – Field Drawing or ARTS 114 – Introduction to Drawing Architecture with grade of C- or better or equivalent.
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ARTS 273 Studio Art Seminar in the South Pacific: Printmaking 6 credits
Intaglio and relief printmaking. Students will receive instruction in all of the processes of intaglio and relief printmaking. Students will explore the possibilities of these forms of printmaking in conjunction with their work in the drawing class.
Open only to participants in Carleton OCS South Pacific Program
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Acceptance in the Studio Art in the South Pacific Program and the student has completed any of the following courses: ARTS 110 – Observational drawing or ARTS 113 – Field Drawing or ARTS 114 – Introduction to Drawing Architecture with a grade of C- or better or equivalent.
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ARTS 274 Silkscreen Printmaking 6 credits
This course will introduce the basics of silkscreen, an art technique used to create everything from t-shirts and band posters to fine art. We will engage with different aspects of this artistic process to generate imagery, including color mixing, layering, combining analogue and digital output, as well as contextualize the historic and contemporary tradition of this art form. This course will emphasize creativity, artistic growth, and technical skill development.
Three seats held for Art and Art History majors until the first day of sophomore registration.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): ARTS 110 – Observational Drawing or equivalent, ARTS 113 – Field Drawing, ARTS 114 – Intro to Drawing Architecture with a grade of C- or better.
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ARTS 276 Design Fundamentals, Zines, and Artistic Publications 6 credits
This course will discuss principles of graphic design using a Risograph duplicator, a printing technology that operates similarly to both silkscreen printmaking and a copy machine. The Riso is used to create artwork, zines, and other artistic publications. We will examine creative possibilities for this technology, using both analog techniques and digital publishing software including Adobe Photoshop and Indesign to make printed imagery and narrative works like zines and artists books.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): ARTS 110 – Observational Drawing or equivalent, ARTS 113 – Field Drawing, ARTS 114 – Intro to Drawing Architecture with a grade of C- or better.
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ARTS 322 Sculpture 2: Form and Context 6 credits
In this intimate and nimble seminar, we will continue our exploration of the many wonders of sculpture, further developing our previous studio-based investigations. During several short and two prolonged problem-based assignments we will work to develop our personal voice and a more nuanced material expression in our art. We’ll be introducing interior and exterior site-specific installation, casting, advanced woodworking and welding techniques, as well as the potential for interactive robotics and digital media, to the range of possibilities. In Arts 322 you are free to explore the processes that most intrigue you–no specific material or sculptural format will be required.
Two seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration. Extra Time Required
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed of the following course(s): ARTS 122 – Introduction to Sculpture, ARTS 222 – Sculptural Practice, ARTS 327 – Woodworking or CS 232 – Art, Interactivity, and Microcontrollers with a grade of C- or better.
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ARTS 327 Woodworking: The Table 6 credits
This class explores the wondrous joys and enlightening frustrations of an intensive material focus in wood. From the perspective of both functional and non-functional design, we will examine wood’s physical, visual, philosophical, and expressive properties. Several short projects will culminate in an examination of the table as a conceptual construct, and six week design/build challenge.
Two seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration. Extra time required for field trip.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): ARTS 122 – Introduction to Sculpture or ARTS 222 – Sculptural Practice with a grade of C- or better.
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ARTS 330 Advanced Ceramics 6 credits
Designed to build on previous coursework in ceramics, this course focuses on sophisticated handbuilding and throwing techniques and advanced problem solving. Development of a personal voice is encouraged through open-ended assignments deepening exploration into the expressive nature of clay. Glaze calculations, kiln firing theory, and alternative firing techniques will broaden approaches to surface design. This course can be repeated for credit.
Two seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration. Extra time required for kiln firings, a field trip and visiting artists.
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ARTS 339 Advanced Photography 6 credits
In this course students explore photography as a means of understanding and interacting with both the world and the inner self. We will emphasize a balance of technical skills, exploration of personal vision, and development of critical thinking and vocabulary relating to photography. Advanced students will focus on developing a concise body of work independently through two self-directed longer projects. Instruction includes: use of large format cameras with a hand meter, film scanning, and strobe lighting. Students will learn to develop a portfolio as an ongoing process that requires informed and critical decision making to assemble a body of work. Collectively we will critique, analyze, give feedback on work and discuss readings that are pertinent to the production of images in contemporary times.
Two seats held for Art and Art History majors until the day after junior priority registration.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): ARTS 139 – Beginning Photography or ARTS 142 – The Book As Art Object or ARTS 244 – Alternative Processes or ARTS 245 – Constructed Image with grade of C- or better.
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ARTS 374 Advanced Printmaking 6 credits
This course builds upon student’s prior introductory coursework in any printmaking media (Silkscreen, Relief, Intaglio, Risography, or Lithography). We will engage in further technical study in printmaking as well as pursue conceptual engagement in theory and readings relevant to the field. This course will emphasize student-directed learning and the integration of concept and media.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): ARTS 273 – Printmaking, ARTS 274 – Printmaking, ARTS 276 – Design + Art Publications or ARTS 278 Intaglio Printmaking with grade of C- or better
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CAMS 111 Intro to Cinema & Media Production 6 credits
This class introduces students to the full range of production tools and forms, building both the technical and conceptual skills needed to continue at more advanced levels. We will explore the aesthetics and mechanics of shooting digital video, the role of sound and how to record and mix it, field and studio production, lighting, and editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CC. Course work will include individual and group production projects, readings, and writing. This is an essential foundation for anyone interested in moving-image production and learning the specifics of CAMS' studios, cameras, and lighting equipment.
Sophomore Priority. Formerly titled Digital Foundations. Extra Time required for evening equipment and software labs
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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CAMS 265 Sound Design 6 credits
This course examines the theories and techniques of sound design for film and video. Students will learn the basics of audio recording, sound editing and multi-track sound design specifically for the moving image. The goal of the course is a greater understanding of the practices and concepts associated with soundtrack development through projects using recording equipment and the digital audio workstation for editing and mixing.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 111 – Digital Foundations with grade of C- or better.
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CAMS 270 Nonfiction 6 credits
This course addresses nonfiction media as both art form and historical practice by exploring the expressive, rhetorical, and political possibilities of nonfiction production. A focus on relationships between form and content and between makers, subjects, and viewers will inform our approach. Throughout the course we will pay special attention to the ethical concerns that arise from making media about others’ lives. We will engage with diverse modes of nonfiction production including essayistic, experimental, and participatory forms and create community videos in partnership with Carleton’s Center for Community and Civic Engagement and local organizations. The class culminates in the production of a significant independent nonfiction media project.
Extra Time
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 111 – Digital Foundations with grade of C- or better.
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CAMS 271 Fiction 6 credits
Through a series of exercises, students will explore the fundamentals of making narrative films. Areas of focus in this course include visual storytelling and cinematography, working with actors, and story structure. Through readings, screenings, and writing exercises, we will analyze how mood, tone, and themes are constructed through formal techniques. Course work includes individual and group exercise, and culminates in individual short narrative projects.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 111 – Digital Foundations AND One additional CAMS course NOT including CAMS 111 with a grade of C- or better.
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CAMS 272 CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program: Narrative Short Film Production 6 credits
Narrative films are the product of many artists working in concert toward a shared artistic vision. In this course, students will explore the essential crew roles on narrative films and choose an area in which they would like to specialize during the making of a collaborative project in Los Angeles. In addition to a focus on story and directing actors, specialized equipment and craft labs will expand students' technical skills. Through the term, students will learn the ins-and-outs of filmmaking in Los Angeles while moving through production of a narrative short film, with each student taking on a specific crew position in a collaborative project.
Open only to participants in Carleton OCS CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Acceptance into the Carleton OCS CAMS Production in Los Angeles program.
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CAMS 277 CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program: In the Writers’ Room 6 credits
In this course, students will explore the art and craft of writing for television as they learn, from writers' room insiders, how TV series are conceived and created. We'll break the writing process into a series of manageable steps, from pilot premise to polishing. Topics will include: story structure, character development, tone, stakes, theme, and more. In-class conversations with working, award-winning television writers, as well as visits to sets and show tapings, will complement the classroom curriculum.
Open only to participants in Carleton OCS CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 111 – Digital Foundations with a grade of C- or better AND acceptance into the Carleton OCS CAMS Production – Los Angeles Program.
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CAMS 370 Advanced Production Workshop I 6 credits
In this course, students will develop a concept and complete pre-production for their CAMS production comps. Students will draw inspiration from a variety of sources that are personal, cultural, and observational, and in doing so, develop confidence in their own artistic practice and perspective. We will refine technical and formal strategies, consider audience reception, and practice giving and receiving constructive critique. Prior to registering for the course, students must submit a project proposal to the instructor. Final enrollment is based on the quality of the proposal. Note: This course is intended to prepare students for a Comps production project in winter term and it is the first in a two part sequence with CAMS 371. If you have any questions about enrolling in this course, please email the instructor.
Extra Time, Instructor Consent required, Waitlist only
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 111 – Digital Foundations AND either CAMS 270 – Nonfiction or CAMS 271 – Fiction with a grade of C- or better.
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CAMS 371 Advanced Production Workshop II 6 credits
Advanced Production Workshop II is taken in conjunction with CAMS 400 for students completing production comps. Production projects are inherently collaborative; this course supports collaboration through workshops, crewing, and informed critique. This course is the second in the advanced production workshop sequence with a focus on production and post-production. Please contact instructor for further information.
Project Proposal required
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 370 – Production Workshop I with a grade of C- or better.
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CCST 270 Creative Travel Writing Workshop 6 credits
Travelers write. Whether it be in the form of postcards, text messages, blogs, or articles, writing serves to anchor memory and process difference, making foreign experience understandable to us and accessible to others. While examining key examples of the genre, you will draw on your experiences off-campus for your own work. Student essays will be critiqued in a workshop setting, and all work will be revised before final submission. Some experimentation with blended media is also encouraged.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice IS, International Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Student has enrolled in any of the following course(s): Any Carleton OCS course or Non-Carleton OCS course with a grade of C- or better.
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DANC 107 Ballet I 1 credits
A beginning course in ballet technique, including basic positions, beginning patterns and exercises. Students develop an awareness of the many ways their body can move, an appreciation of dance as an artistic expression and a recognition of the dancer as an athlete.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 147 Moving Anatomy 1 credits
This course seeks to provide an underlying awareness of body structure and function. Using movement to expand knowledge of our anatomy will encourage participants to integrate information with experience. Heightened body awareness and class studies are designed to activate the general learning process.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 148 Modern Dance I: Technique and Theory 1 credits
A physical exploration at the introductory level of the elements of dance: time, motion, space, shape and energy. Students are challenged physically as they increase their bodily awareness, balance, control, strength and flexibility and get a glimpse of the art of dance.
- Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 150 Contact Improvisation 1 credits
This is a course in techniques of spontaneous dancing shared by two or more people through a common point of physical contact. Basic skills such as support, counterbalance, rolling, falling and flying will be taught and developed in an environment of mutual creativity.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 158 Contemporary Dance Forms I 1 credits
This course provides an introduction to a variety of movement approaches that develop an awareness of the body in space and moving through space. Students will learn approaches designed to strengthen muscles, support joint mobility, find breath support, enhance coordination, and encourage embodied learning.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 190 Fields of Performance 6 credits
This introductory course in choreography explores games, structures, systems and sports as sources and locations of movement composition and performance. Readings, viewings and discussion of postmodernist structures and choreographers as well as attendance and analysis of dance performances and sports events will be jumping off point for creative process and will pave the way for small individual compositions and one larger project. In an atmosphere of play, spontaneity and research participants will discover new ways of defining dance, pushing limits and bending the rules. Guest choreographers and coaches will be invited as part of the class. Open to all movers. No previous experience necessary.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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DANC 200 Modern Dance II: Technique and Theory 1 credits
A continuation of Level I with more emphasis on the development of technique and expressive qualities.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 205 Winter Dance 1 credits
Intensive rehearsal and performance of a work commissioned from professional guest choreographer. The class will culminate in a performance in the Spring Term, so students taking this course should plan to register for DANC 206 in Spring. Open to all levels.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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DANC 206 Spring Dance 1 credits
Rehearsal and full concert performance of student dance works created during the year and completed in the spring term. Open to all levels.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): DANC 205 – Winter Dance or DANC 215 – Winter Dance, Student Choreography or DANC 350 – Semaphore Repertory Dance Company with a grade of C- or better.
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DANC 208 Ballet II 1 credits
For the student with previous ballet experience. This course emphasizes articulation of technique and development of ballet vocabulary.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 210 Contemporary Dance Forms II 1 credits
This course is intended for students seeking to refine and deepen their awareness of embodied movement approaches. Through these approaches, students will work to develop an alert and articulate body. In both standing and floor work, momentum, dynamic shifts and spatial challenges are introduced.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 215 Winter Dance, Student Choreography 1 credits
For students enrolled in Dance 205, supervised student choreography with two public showings.
Requires concurrent registration in DANC 205
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
- DANC 205
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DANC 254 Jazz Dance: Roots and Grooves 3 credits
This course positions jazz and related social dance styles as forms with African diasporic roots and American branches. Composed of 60% in-class movement investigation and 40% both in-class and out of class reading, viewing, writing, and creating, Jazz Dance: Roots and Grooves will ask students to invest in how the elements of groove, improvisation and interaction unite different approaches to jazz and make it a form that appreciates the past, centers the present and innovates for the future. Some dance experience recommended.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 279 Tap Dance, Intermediate/Advanced 1 credits
Tap is an energetic form of dance that focuses on rhythm and percussion. Classes will include across the floor exercises that teach dynamics, shading, phrasing, and musicality along with extended rhythmic phrases and improvisation exercises. Tap dance originated in the southern United States as a fusion of West African dance roots and Europeanist influences. In this course students will learn tap skills as well as important aspects of tap dance history. Some previous experience with Tap dance is recommended.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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DANC 301 West African Dance 2 credits
In this class you will be introduced to traditional West African dance movement accompanied by live drumming. A variety of dynamics such as grounding, centeredness, and footwork will be addressed. Each class will cover the cultural background of the rhythm as well as the conversation between drummer and dancer. All levels are welcome to join in this vigorous experience of West African dance forms.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 309 Ballet III 1 credits
This is an advanced class for students who have some capabilities and proficiency in ballet technique. Content is sophisticated and demanding in its use of ballet vocabulary and musical phrasing.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 310 Contemporary Dance Forms III 1 credits
This advanced course will continue to focus on a variety of embodied movement approaches to refine the awareness of the moving body and prepare for the rigors of performance and physical research. The aim will be on finding a personal connection to movement through subtlety, speed and effort.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 350 Semaphore Repertory Dance Company 1 credits
Provides advanced dance students with an intensive opportunity to develop as performers in professional level dances. Skills to be honed are: the dancer as contributor to the process of art-making; defining individual technical and expressive gifts; working in a variety of new technical and philosophical dance frameworks. In addition to regular training during the academic terms, participation in a "preseason" rehearsal period before fall term is required. A few pieces of student choreography will be accepted for repertory. The group produces an annual concert, performs in the Twin Cities and makes dance exchanges with other college groups. Recommended Preparation: Admission by audition.
Audition required.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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ENGL 160 Creative Writing 6 credits
You will work in several genres and forms, among them: traditional and experimental poetry, prose fiction, and creative nonfiction. In your writing you will explore the relationship between the self, the imagination, the word, and the world. In this practitioner’s guide to the creative writing process, we will examine writings from past and current authors, and your writings will be critiqued in a workshop setting and revised throughout the term.
Sophomore Priority
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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ENGL 209 Project Course 6 credits
This interdisciplinary course, taught in conjunction with a full-scale Carleton Players production, will explore one of Shakespeare’s greatest and most complex works, Twelfth Night. We will investigate the play’s historical, social, and theatrical contexts as we try to understand not only the world that produced the play, but the world that came out of it. How should what we learn of the past inform a modern production? How can performance offer interpretive arguments about the play’s meanings? Mixing embodied and experiential learning, individual and group projects may involve dramaturgy, stagecraft, literary analysis, music, and research in Special Collections.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice IS, International Studies
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ENGL 233 Writing and Social Justice 6 credits
Social justice is fairness as it manifests in society, but who gets to determine what fairness looks, sounds, feels like? The self-described Black Canadian poet Dionne Brand says that she doesn’t write toward justice because that doesn’t exist, but that she writes against tyranny. If we use that framework, how does that change our own writing and our own notions of justice in our or any time? What is the role of literary writing, especially fiction, the essay, and poetry in the collective and individual quest to understand and build conditions that could yield increased potential for social justice? In this course, students will read, analyze, discuss, and write about various texts that might be considered to be against myriad tyrannies, if not necessarily toward social justice. Authors may include Octavia Butler, Phillip Metres, Toni Morrison, Myung Mi Kim, and M. NourbeSe Philipe.
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ENGL 253 Food Writing: History, Culture, Practice 6 credits
We are living in perhaps the height of what might be called the “foodie era” in the U.S. The cooking and presentation of food dominates Instagram and is one of the key draws of YouTube and various television and streaming networks; shows about chefs and food culture are likewise very popular. Yet a now less glamorous form with a much longer history persists: food writing. In this course we will track some important genres of food writing over the last 100 years or so. We will examine how not just food but cultural discourses about food and the world it circulates in are consumed and produced. We will read recipes and reviews; blogs and extracts from cookbooks, memoirs and biographies; texts on food history and policy; academic and popular feature writing. Simultaneously we will also produce food writing of our own in a number of genres.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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ENGL 268 Writing with Artificial Intelligence 6 credits
This course will explore techniques writers can use to create a variety of texts in collaboration with artificial intelligence tools like Bard, Claude, and ChatGPT. We'll examine how to craft an initial prompt for an AI, how to evaluate the AI's output, how to iterate the prompt to produce better results, and when it's more effective to simply revise the AI's writing yourself. We'll also discuss the limits of AI technology and a range of practical and ethical subjects connected to AI, including plagiarism, copyright, and cultural bias. Previous experience with AI tools is not necessary for this course.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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ENGL 270 Short Story Workshop 6 credits
An introduction to the writing of the short story (prior familiarity with the genre of the short story is expected of class members). Each student will write and have discussed in class three stories (from 1,500 to 6,000 words in length) and give constructive suggestions, including written critiques, for revising the stories written by other members of the class. Attention will be paid to all the elements of fiction: characterization, point of view, conflict, setting, dialogue, etc.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One 6 credit English course excluding Independent Studies and Comps with a grade of C- or better.
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ENGL 271 Poetry Workshop 6 credits
This workshop offers you ways of developing poetic craft, voice, and vision in a small-group setting. Your poetry and individual expression is the heart and soul of the course. Through intensive writing and revision of poems written in a variety of styles and forms, you will create a significant portfolio.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One 6 credit English course excluding Independent Studies and Comps with a grade of C- or better.
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ENGL 370 Advanced Fiction Workshop 6 credits
An advanced course in the writing of fiction. Students will write three to four short stories or novel chapters which will be read and critiqued by the class.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): English (ENGL) 160 or ENGL 161 or ENGL 263 or ENGL 265 or ENGL 270 or ENGL 271 or ENGL 273 or Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 271 or CAMS 278 or CAMS 279 or Cross Cultural Studies 270 or Theater 246 with a grade of C- or better.
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ENGL 371 Advanced Poetry Workshop 6 credits
In this workshop, students choose to write poems from a broad range of forms, from sonnets to spoken word, from ghazals to slam, from free-verse to blues. Over the ten weeks, each poet will write and revise their own collection of poems. Student work is the centerpiece of the course, but readings from a diverse selection of contemporary poets will be used to expand each student’s individual poetic range, and to explore the power of poetic language. For students with some experience in writing poetry, this workshop further develops your craft and poetic voice and vision.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): English (ENGL) 160 or ENGL 161 or ENGL 263 or ENGL 265 or ENGL 270 or ENGL 271 or ENGL 273 or Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) 271 or CAMS 278 or CAMS 279 or Cross Cultural Studies 270 or Theater 246 with a grade of C- or better.
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FREN 302 Creative Writing in French 6 credits
This course will give students the opportunity to refine their knowledge of French by practicing the art of creative writing. Guided by short readings in a variety of genres, students will engage in workshop-based activities, including class discussion, creative writing exercises (some using visual media or music), and constructive peer review. No previous experience in creative writing necessary.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice IS, International Studies
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One 200 or 300 level FREN course excluding FREN 204 and Independent Studies with a grade of C- or better.
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MUSC 101 Music Fundamentals 2 credits
A course designed for students with little or no music background as preparation and support for other music courses, ensemble participation and applied music study. The course covers the fundamentals of music notation, including notes and chords in treble and bass clefs, key and time signatures, and the realization of basic rhythmic patterns.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 103 Musicianship I 2 credits
A course in aural skills, focusing upon sight reading using solfège (movable do, la-based minor), and short melodic dictation exercises of up to four bars in length in major and minor keys. Recommended Preparation: MUSC 101 or permission of the instructor as assessed by a diagnostic exam administered at the start of the program.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 104 Musicianship II 2 credits
Continuation of Musicianship I, with an emphasis on singing and dictation skills. More advanced solfège is introduced, including melodies in minor keys and chromaticism. Longer melodic dictation exercises which introduce standard four-and eight-bar melodic schemas will also be covered. Some harmonic dictation will also be included. Recommended Preparation: MUSC 103 or permission of instructor as assessed by a diagnostic exam administered at the start of the term.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 108 Introduction to Music Technology 6 credits
A course in using the computer to make meaningful interventions into our practices as musicians. We’ll explore a number of approaches to composing, producing, and hearing music, among them coding, visual programming, and working in a digital audio workstation. Students will ultimately combine and hybridize these different methods in order to create unique, individual systems, using them to make new work. Open to all interested students; no prior experience with music, programming, or production required.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 150 Piano 1 credits
Weekly half-hour lessons, with repertoire selected as appropriate for the individual student’s experience. Works from a variety of style periods may be studied, with attention to both musical and technical development. Open to students with no previous musical experience.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 150J Piano (Juried) 1 credits
Weekly half-hour lessons, with repertoire selected as appropriate for the individual student’s experience. Works from a variety of style periods may be studied, with attention to both musical and technical development. The juried (J) course includes the opportunity for students to share their work in an end-of-term public or closed performance. Open to students with no previous musical experience.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 151 Voice 1 credits
A study of voice production, breathing, tone development, diction, and pronunciation. Selection (according to the individual voice) of Italian, German, French, and English songs of the Classic, Romantic, and Modern periods. Arias and songs from operas, oratorios, musical theater and popular songs from Western and non-Western traditions. In addition, one studio class per week.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 151J Voice (Juried) 1 credits
A study of voice production, breathing, tone development, diction, and pronunciation. Selection (according to the individual voice) of Italian, German, French, and English songs of the Classic, Romantic, and Modern periods. Arias and songs from operas, oratorios, musical theater and popular songs from Western and non-Western traditions. In addition, one studio class per week.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 152 Guitar 1 credits
Studies for the development of technique appropriate to the needs of the student. Music is chosen from all musical periods including folk picking, blues, ragtime, popular and classical styles. Students with no prior experience or lessons should take one term of class guitar (Music 197).
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 152J Guitar (Juried) 1 credits
Studies for the development of technique appropriate to the needs of the student. Music is chosen from all musical periods including folk picking, blues, ragtime, popular and classical styles. Students with no prior experience or lessons should take one term of class guitar (Music 197).
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 153J Composition (Juried) 1 credits
Individual instruction focusing on the student’s original compositions. Course work includes the study of compositional techniques, analysis of relevant works, and computer/MIDI/synthesizer technologies. The course is particularly directed toward the major who wishes to pursue the composition option in the Senior Integrative Exercise.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): Either MUSC 220 – Composition Studio OR any two courses from MUSC 221 – Electronic Music Composition, MUSC 222 – Composing for Ad Hoc Ensemble or MUSC 223 – Vocal Counterpoint with grade of C- or better.
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MUSC 155 Violin 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 155J Violin (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 156 Viola 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 156J Viola (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 157 Cello 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 157J Cello (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 158 Classical String Bass 1 credits
The study of the acoustic string bass in the Classical style.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 158J Classical String Bass (Juried) 1 credits
The study of the acoustic string bass in the Classical style.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 159 Flute 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 159J Flute (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 160J.01 Oboe/English Horn (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 160J.01 Oboe/English Horn (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 160J.01 Oboe/English Horn (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 160J.02 Oboe/English Horn (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 160J.02 Oboe/English Horn (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 160J.02 Oboe/English Horn (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 161 Clarinet 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 161J Clarinet (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 162 Saxophone 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 162J Saxophone (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 163 Bassoon 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 163J Bassoon (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 164 French Horn 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 164J French Horn (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 165 Trumpet 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 165J Trumpet (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 166.01 Trombone/Euphonium 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 166.01 Trombone/Euphonium 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 166.01 Trombone/Euphonium 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 166.02 Trombone/Euphonium 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 166.02 Trombone/Euphonium 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 166.02 Trombone/Euphonium 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 166J.01 Trombone/Euphonium (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 166J.01 Trombone/Euphonium (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 166J.01 Trombone/Euphonium (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 166J.02 Trombone/Euphonium (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 166J.02 Trombone/Euphonium (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 166J.02 Trombone/Euphonium (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 167 Tuba 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 167J Tuba (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 168 Orchestral Percussion 1 credits
Instruction on orchestral percussion instruments such as snare drum, mallets, and tympani. Equipment available for registered students.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor.
- Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 168J Orchestral Percussion (Juried) 1 credits
Instruction on orchestral percussion instruments such as snare drum, mallets, and tympani. Equipment available for registered students.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor.
- Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 169 Harp 1 credits
Studies to develop technique and a varied selection of works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Works from the Romantic and Modern periods are also studied.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 169J Harp (Juried) 1 credits
Studies to develop technique and a varied selection of works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Works from the Romantic and Modern periods are also studied.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 170 Harpsichord 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 170J Harpsichord (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 171 Organ 1 credits
Basic piano skills required.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Basic piano skills required. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 171J Organ (Juried) 1 credits
Basic piano skills required.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Basic piano skills required. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 172 Oud 1 credits
Beginning through advanced study of the Arab oud. Previous musical experience is not necessary. Instruments are provided.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 172J Oud (Juried) 1 credits
Beginning through advanced study of the Arab oud. Previous musical experience is not necessary. Instruments are provided.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 174 Recorder 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor.
- Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 174J Recorder (Juried) 1 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor.
- Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 175 Jazz Piano 1 credits
Study the tools for learning the jazz "language." Learn to improvise through scale and mode study, transcription, and composition. Turn chord symbols into chord voicings and accompaniment. Explore the blues, jazz "standards," and today's music. Materials: staff paper, The Real Book, vol. 1, or similar fake book, and the app iReal Pro. Weekly studio class required. Prerequisite: Three years of piano.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 175J Jazz Piano (Juried) 1 credits
Study the tools for learning the jazz "language." Learn to improvise through scale and mode study, transcription, and composition. Turn chord symbols into chord voicings and accompaniment. Explore the blues, jazz "standards," and today's music. Materials: staff paper, The Real Book, vol. 1, or similar fake book, and the app iReal Pro. Weekly studio class required. Prerequisite: Three years of piano.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 176 Electric & Acoustic Bass 1 credits
The study of either electric bass guitar or acoustic string bass in all contemporary styles including rock, jazz, pop, rap, and reggae.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 176J Electric & Acoustic Bass (Juried) 1 credits
The study of either electric bass guitar or acoustic string bass in all contemporary styles including rock, jazz, pop, rap, and reggae.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 177 Jazz and Blues Guitar 1 credits
Study of chord voicings, accompanimental techniques, and solo guitar performance in the jazz idiom. Prerequisites: previous study of guitar and the ability to read music, or the permission of the instructor. Students must provide their own instruments.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 177J Jazz and Blues Guitar (Juried) 1 credits
Study of chord voicings, accompanimental techniques, and solo guitar performance in the jazz idiom. Prerequisites: previous study of guitar and the ability to read music, or the permission of the instructor. Students must provide their own instruments.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 178 Drum Set Instruction 1 credits
Drum Set Instruction on/in jazz and popular drumming styles which use the standard drum set. Equipment available for registered students.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 178J Drum Set Instruction (Juried) 1 credits
Drum Set Instruction on/in jazz and popular drumming styles which use the standard drum set. Equipment available for registered students.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 179 Jazz Improvisation 1 credits
The study of the basic grammar and syntax of jazz improvisation styles, including transcribing solos, chord/scale materials and melodic patterns. Weekly studio class required.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 179J Jazz Improvisation (Juried) 1 credits
The study of the basic grammar and syntax of jazz improvisation styles, including transcribing solos, chord/scale materials and melodic patterns. Weekly studio class required.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 180 Raga: Vocal or Instrumental Study of Hindustani Music 1 credits
Beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of voice, guitar, violin, flute, clarinet, etc., approach raga from their current level of musicianship. In all cases, traditional practical instruction is complemented by some theoretical and philosophical exploration of the underpinnings of the music.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 180J Raga: Vocal or Instrumental Study of Hindustani Music (Juried) 1 credits
Beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of voice, guitar, violin, flute, clarinet, etc., approach raga from their current level of musicianship. In all cases, traditional practical instruction is complemented by some theoretical and philosophical exploration of the underpinnings of the music.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 181 Sitar 1 credits
Beginning through advanced study of sitar in the gayaki ang style of Ustad Vilayat Khan. Previous musical experience is not necessary. Sitars are provided.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 181J Sitar (Juried) 1 credits
Beginning through advanced study of sitar in the gayaki ang style of Ustad Vilayat Khan. Previous musical experience is not necessary. Sitars are provided.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 182 Chinese Musical Instruments 1 credits
Beginning through advanced study on traditional Chinese instruments, pipa (Chinese lute), erhu (Chinese violin), guzheng (Chinese zither), zhongruan (Chinese moon guitar), hulusi, bawu and dizi (Chinese bamboo flutes).
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 182J Chinese Musical Instruments (Juried) 1 credits
Beginning through advanced study on traditional Chinese instruments, pipa (Chinese lute), erhu (Chinese violin), guzheng (Chinese zither), zhongruan (Chinese moon guitar), hulusi, bawu and dizi (Chinese bamboo flutes).
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 184 American Folk Instruments 1 credits
Beginning to advanced study of technique and improvisational styles on American folk instruments. Students may study 5-string banjo (bluegrass or clawhammer style), bluegrass guitar, Dobro©, fiddle (violin, viola, cello), bass, ukulele, mandolin, and accordion. The Music Department has a single mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and guitar (and two ukuleles) available for shared use by enrolled students unable to provide their own instruments.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 184J American Folk Instruments (Juried) 1 credits
Beginning to advanced study of technique and improvisational styles on American folk instruments. Students may study 5-string banjo (bluegrass or clawhammer style), bluegrass guitar, Dobro©, fiddle (violin, viola, cello), bass, ukulele, mandolin, and accordion. The Music Department has a single mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and guitar (and two ukuleles) available for shared use by enrolled students unable to provide their own instruments
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 185 Carleton Choir 1 credits
The Carleton Choir is a select vocal ensemble (SATB) performing concertized choral music from diverse genres. It strives for artistic excellence whether singing music from the Baroque period to contemporary choral music, or arrangements of spirituals, pop songs, or global songs. The Carleton Choir regularly tours and collaborates with other choirs. Singers demonstrate moderate to advanced musicianship skills and most have strong vocal background from voice lessons and/or high school choirs. An audition is required, and members are expected to commit to the entire academic year (with exceptions offered for varsity sports, off-campus program, and unique academic circumstances). Admission by audition.
Admission by audition. Extra time required for tours
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
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MUSC 186 Carleton Voices 1 credits
The Carleton Voices is a mixed vocal ensemble that sings eclectic musical styles including musical theater, pop/rock, classical, gospel, folk, jazz, and global songs. The ensemble regularly collaborates with guest artists ranging from folk bands, gospel trios, and visiting choirs. Singers do not need to be able to read Western music notation; rehearsals will be led via multiple learning modes including call and response, learning tracks, instrumental support, and sheet music. Each term, The Carleton Voices collaborates with The Carleton Choir in rehearsals and concert. A voice placement is required so that the instructor can learn about your vocal range.
By Audition only, Extra time required
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 187 Carleton Orchestra 1 credits
The Carleton Orchestra performs large symphonic masterpieces, such as Beethoven, Stravinsky and Bernstein. Concerti with students and faculty soloists, and smaller works for string and wind ensembles are also performed. Occasional sight-reading sessions. Admission by audition.
Admission by audition.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 188 Carleton Chinese Music Ensemble 1 credits
The ensemble will use indigenous instruments and a Chinese approach to musical training in order to learn and perform music from China. In addition to the Wednesday meeting time, there will be one sectional rehearsal each week. Prerequisite: Previous experience in a music ensemble, Chinese Musical instruments or instructor permission.
Prerequisite: Previous experience in a music ensemble, Chinese Musical instruments or instructor permission
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice IS, International Studies
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MUSC 189 Carleton Symphony Band 1 credits
The Carleton Symphony Band performs music selected from the standard and contemporary repertory, including compositions by Holst, Masianka, Arnold and others. Regular sight-reading sessions. Admission by audition.
Admission by audition.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 190 Carleton Jazz Ensemble 1 credits
The Carleton Jazz Ensemble's focus is on improvisation and the fusion between jazz, rock, funk, and Latin influences. There is no predetermined instrumentation. Rather, the ensemble's size and instrumentation vary each term. String players, vocalists, and any brass or woodwind instrumentalists are welcome to register. The ensemble performs once each term. Admission by audition.
Admission by audition.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 192 West African Drum Ensemble 1 credits
The ensemble will use indigenous instruments and an African approach to musical training in order to learn and perform rhythms and songs from West Africa.
- Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice IS, International Studies
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MUSC 194 Chamber Music 1 credits
Small group study and performance of instrumental and/or vocal chamber music from the western art music or non-western/folk repertory. Groups are usually formed by students prior to registration, and should consist of 3-8 musicians. Student groups are coached weekly by specialized music faculty, and participate in an end-of-term performance. Students must be registered, may not audit, and can register for only one group per term.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed or is in the process of completing any of the following course(s): One Applied Music course with a grade of C- or better.
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MUSC 195 Jazz Chamber Music 1 credits
Small groups participate in the study and performance of instrumental and/or vocal jazz chamber music. Groups are usually formed by students prior to registration, and should usually consist of 3-8 students. Groups rehearse independently, and are coached weekly by jazz music faculty; all groups participate in an end-of-term performance. Students must register, and may not audit; students register for only one group, but may participate in two groups with permission of instructor.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed or is in the process of completing any of the following course(s): One Applied Music course with a grade of C- or better.
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MUSC 196 Jazz Workshop 1 credits
This class focuses on the theory and practice of jazz improvisation. Students will develop their improvisational skills by learning and applying various scales, modes, and chord structures to lab performances of standard jazz repertoire on their respective instruments.
Instructor Permission Required
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 197 Class Guitar 1 credits
An introduction to classical and folk guitar: styles, chords and music notation for persons with little or no previous music instruction. Not to be taken concurrently with Music 152, 152J, 252 or 252J.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 220 Composition Studio 6 credits
This course focuses on creating new music, through several exercises as well as a substantial term composition. Class meetings reinforce key concepts, aesthetic trends, and compositional techniques, as well as provide opportunities for group feedback on works in progress. Individual instruction focuses on students’ own creative work in depth and detail.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): MUSC 110 – Theory I: Principles of Harmony or MUSC 204 – Theory II: Musical Structures with grade of C- or better.
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MUSC 221 Electronic Music Composition 6 credits
This course focuses on creating new electronic music. We will use digital audio workstations for composition and production, grounding their use in the fundamentals of digital audio. We will listen extensively, in many genres of electronic music, applying this critical listening to our own work and our colleagues’ work. Frequent composition assignments build fundamental skills in melodic creation and development, drum programming, synthesis, and audio production. The course culminates in a term project, a stylistically unrestricted, substantial original composition.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): MUSC 108 – Intro to Music Technology or MUSC 110 – Theory I: Principles of Harmony with grade of C- or better.
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MUSC 250 Piano 2 credits
Weekly one-hour lessons, with repertoire selected as appropriate for the individual student’s experience. Works from a variety of style periods may be studied, with attention to both musical and technical development. Music 250 is intended for the more advanced piano student; permission of instructor is required.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website. Instructor permission.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 250J Piano (Juried) 2 credits
Weekly one-hour lessons, with repertoire selected as appropriate for the individual student’s experience. Works from a variety of style periods may be studied, with attention to both musical and technical development. The juried (J) course includes the opportunity for students to share their work in an end-of-term public or closed performance. Music 250J is intended for the more advanced piano student; permission of instructor is required.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website. Instructor permission.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 251 Voice 2 credits
A study of voice production, breathing, tone development, diction, and pronunciation. Selection (according to the individual voice) of Italian, German, French, and English songs of the Classic, Romantic, and Modern periods. Arias and songs from operas, oratorios, musical theater and popular songs from Western and non-Western traditions. In addition, one studio class per week. Prerequisite: Music 151 or permission of the instructor.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 251J Voice (Juried) 2 credits
A study of voice production, breathing, tone development, diction, and pronunciation. Selection (according to the individual voice) of Italian, German, French, and English songs of the Classic, Romantic, and Modern periods. Arias and songs from operas, oratorios, musical theater and popular songs from Western and non-Western traditions. In addition, one studio class per week. Prerequisite: Music 151 or permission of the instructor.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 252 Guitar 2 credits
Studies for the development of technique appropriate to the needs of the student. Music is chosen from all musical periods including folk picking, blues, ragtime, popular and classical styles. Students with no prior experience or lessons should take one term of class guitar (Music 197).
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 252J Guitar (Juried) 2 credits
Studies for the development of technique appropriate to the needs of the student. Music is chosen from all musical periods including folk picking, blues, ragtime, popular and classical styles. Students with no prior experience or lessons should take one term of class guitar (Music 197).
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 253J Composition (Juried) 2 credits
Individual instruction focusing on the student’s original compositions. Course work includes the study of compositional techniques, analysis of relevant works, and computer/MIDI/synthesizer technologies. The course is particularly directed toward the major who wishes to pursue the composition option in the Senior Integrative Exercise.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website. Instructor permission.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): Either MUSC 220 – Composition Studio OR any two courses from MUSC 221 – Electronic Music Composition, MUSC 222 – Composing for Ad Hoc Ensemble or MUSC 223 – Vocal Counterpoint with grade of C- or better.
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MUSC 255 Violin 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 255J Violin (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 256 Viola 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 256J Viola (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 257 Cello 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 257J Cello (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 258 Classical String Bass 2 credits
The study of the acoustic string bass in the Classical style.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 258J Classical String Bass (Juried) 2 credits
The study of the acoustic string bass in the Classical style.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 259 Flute 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 259J Flute (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 260.01 Oboe/English Horn 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 260.01 Oboe/English Horn 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 260.01 Oboe/English Horn 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 260.02 Oboe/English Horn 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 260.02 Oboe/English Horn 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 260.02 Oboe/English Horn 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 260J.01 Oboe/English Horn (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 260J.01 Oboe/English Horn (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 260J.01 Oboe/English Horn (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 260J.02 Oboe/English Horn (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 260J.02 Oboe/English Horn (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 260J.02 Oboe/English Horn (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 261 Clarinet 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 261J Clarinet (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 262 Saxophone 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 262J Saxophone (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 263 Bassoon 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 263J Bassoon (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 264 French Horn 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 264J French Horn (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 265 Trumpet 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 265J Trumpet (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 266.01 Trombone/Euphonium 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 266.01 Trombone/Euphonium 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 266.01 Trombone/Euphonium 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 266.02 Trombone/Euphonium 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 266.02 Trombone/Euphonium 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 266.02 Trombone/Euphonium 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 266J.01 Trombone/Euphonium (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 266J.01 Trombone/Euphonium (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 266J.01 Trombone/Euphonium (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 266J.02 Trombone/Euphonium (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 266J.02 Trombone/Euphonium (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 266J.02 Trombone/Euphonium (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 267 Tuba 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 267J Tuba (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 268 Orchestral Percussion 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor.
- Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 268J Orchestral Percussion (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor.
- Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 269 Harp 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 269J Harp (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 270 Harpsichord 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 270J Harpsichord (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 271 Organ 2 credits
Basic piano skills required.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 271J Organ (Juried) 2 credits
Basic piano skills required.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 272 Oud 2 credits
Advanced study of the Arab oud. Instruments are provided. Instructor’s permission required.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 272J Oud (Juried) 2 credits
Advanced study of the Arab oud. Instruments are provided. Instructor’s permission required.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 274 Recorder 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor.
- Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 274J Recorder (Juried) 2 credits
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 275 Jazz Piano 2 credits
Study the tools for learning the jazz “language.” Learn to improvise through scale and mode study, transcription, and composition. Turn chord symbols into chord voicings and accompaniment. Explore the blues, jazz “standards,” and today’s music. Materials: staff paper, The Real Book, vol. 1, or similar fake book, and the app iReal Pro. Weekly studio class required.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 275J Jazz Piano (Juried) 2 credits
Study the tools for learning the jazz “language.” Learn to improvise through scale and mode study, transcription, and composition. Turn chord symbols into chord voicings and accompaniment. Explore the blues, jazz “standards,” and today’s music. Materials: staff paper, The Real Book, vol. 1, or similar fake book, and the app iReal Pro. Weekly studio class required.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 276 Electric & Acoustic Bass 2 credits
The study of either electric bass guitar or acoustic string bass in all contemporary styles including rock, jazz, pop, rap, and reggae.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 276J Electric & Acoustic Bass (Juried) 2 credits
The study of either electric bass guitar or acoustic string bass in all contemporary styles including rock, jazz, pop, rap, and reggae.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 277 Jazz and Blues Guitar 2 credits
Study of chord voicings, accompanimental techniques, and solo guitar performance in the jazz idiom. Prerequisites: previous study of guitar and the ability to read music, or the permission of the instructor. Students must provide their own instruments.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 277J Jazz and Blues Guitar (Juried) 2 credits
Study of chord voicings, accompanimental techniques, and solo guitar performance in the jazz idiom. Prerequisites: previous study of guitar and the ability to read music, or the permission of the instructor. Students must provide their own instruments.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 278 Drum Set Instruction 2 credits
Drum Set Instruction on/in jazz and popular drumming styles which use the standard drum set. Equipment available for registered students.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 278J Drum Set Instruction (Juried) 2 credits
Drum Set Instruction on/in jazz and popular drumming styles which use the standard drum set. Equipment available for registered students.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 279 Jazz Improvisation 2 credits
The study of the basic grammar and syntax of jazz improvisation styles, including transcribing solos, chord/scale materials and melodic patterns. Weekly studio class participation required.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 279J Jazz Improvisation (Juried) 2 credits
The study of the basic grammar and syntax of jazz improvisation styles, including transcribing solos, chord/scale materials and melodic patterns. Weekly studio class participation is required.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 280 Raga: Vocal or Instrumental Study of Hindustani Music 2 credits
Beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of voice, guitar, violin, flute, clarinet, etc., approach raga from their current level of musicianship. In all cases, traditional practical instruction is complemented by some theoretical and philosophical exploration of the underpinnings of the music.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 280J Raga:Voc/Instr Study Hindustani (Juried) 2 credits
Beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of voice, guitar, violin, flute, clarinet, etc., approach raga from their current level of musicianship. In all cases, traditional practical instruction is complemented by some theoretical and philosophical exploration of the underpinnings of the music.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 281 Sitar 2 credits
Beginning through advanced study of sitar in the gayaki ang style of Ustad Vilayat Khan. Previous musical experience is not necessary. Sitars are provided. Expected preparation: students should consult with their instructor before singing up for the 2-credit lessons.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 281J Sitar (Juried) 2 credits
Beginning through advanced study of sitar in the gayaki ang style of Ustad Vilayat Khan. Previous musical experience is not necessary. Sitars are provided. Expected preparation: students should consult with their instructor before singing up for the 2-credit lessons.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 282 Chinese Musical Instruments 2 credits
Beginning through advanced study on traditional Chinese instruments, pipa (Chinese lute), erhu (Chinese violin), guzheng (Chinese zither), zhongruan (Chinese moon guitar), hulusi, bawu and dizi (Chinese bamboo flutes).
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 282J Chinese Musical Instruments (Juried) 2 credits
Beginning through advanced study on traditional Chinese instruments, pipa (Chinese lute), erhu (Chinese violin), guzheng (Chinese zither), zhongruan (Chinese moon guitar), hulusi, bawu and dizi (Chinese bamboo flutes).
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 284 American Folk Instruments 2 credits
Beginning to advanced study of technique and improvisational styles on American folk instruments. Students may study 5-string banjo (bluegrass or clawhammer style), bluegrass guitar, Dobro©, fiddle (violin, viola, cello), bass, ukulele, mandolin, and accordion. The Music Department has a single mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and guitar (and two ukuleles) available for shared use by enrolled students unable to provide their own instruments.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 284J American Folk Instrument (Juried) 2 credits
Beginning to advanced study of technique and improvisational styles on American folk instruments. Students may study 5-string banjo (bluegrass or clawhammer style), bluegrass guitar, Dobro©, fiddle (violin, viola, cello), bass, ukulele, mandolin, and accordion. The Music Department has a single mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and guitar (and two ukuleles) available for shared use by enrolled students unable to provide their own instruments.
Lessons are scheduled individually with the instructor. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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MUSC 299 Recital 3 credits
A public music recital of a minimum of thirty minutes of solo performance (some chamber music may be included). Students enrolling in 299 do so in lieu of registering for applied lessons; 299 includes nine one-hour lessons. Normally 299 would be taken in the junior or senior year, and is repeatable one time. Fees and financial aid for 299 are the same as for two-credit applied lessons.
Students must have completed two terms of juried MUSC lessons, completed the recital form and received permission of the MUSC department. Music lesson fee information can be found on the Music Department website.
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): Two 200 Level Juried MUSC lesson with a grade of C- or better.
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MUSC 342 Creative Music Performance Seminar 3 credits
Students will prepare a creative musical performance through the exploration of sources, comparison of recordings, score analysis, and performance science. Group meetings explore the pedagogy of preparation that synthesizes intuition and intellect to create a compelling sound and interpretation. Learn to maximize the results of your efforts to improve technical and musical consistency in performance.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): One 200 Level Juried music lesson with a grade of C- or better.
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THEA 110 Beginning Acting 6 credits
Introduces students to fundamental acting skills, including preliminary physical training, improvisational techniques, and basic scene work. The course includes analysis of plays as bases for performance, with a strong emphasis on characterization.
Extra Time for rehearsal
- Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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THEA 185 The Speaking Voice 6 credits
This course seeks to provide a practical understanding of the human voice, its anatomy, functioning and the underlying support mechanisms of body and breath. Using techniques rooted in the work of Berry, Linklater and Rodenburg, the course will explore the development of physical balance and ease and the awareness of the connection between thinking and breathing that will lead to the effortless, powerful and healthy use of the voice in public presentations and in dramatic performance.
- Fall 2024, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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THEA 190 Carleton Players Production 1 credits
Each term students may participate in one Players production, a hands-on, faculty-supervised process of conceptualization, construction, rehearsal, and performance. Credit is awarded for a predetermined minimum of time on the production, to be arranged with faculty. Productions explore our theatre heritage from Greek drama to new works. Students may participate through audition or through volunteering for production work.
Course will meet weeks 2 through 6, the drop add period will be the end of week 2. Open only to students in THEA 190 cohort
- Fall 2024, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
- Student is a member of the THEA 190 Student Cohort
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THEA 195 Acting Shakespeare 6 credits
Though widely read, Shakespeare’s plays were written to be performed. This acting class, designed for students with no prior experience with Shakespeare, will explore approaches to performance with an emphasis on the use of the First Folio. Students will create performances using Shakespeare’s approaches to rhetoric, imagery and structure while examining some of the plays’ principal themes. Video and audio recordings will be used to develop a critical perspective on acting Shakespeare with an emphasis on the differing demands of live and recorded performance.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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THEA 199 Theater Practicum 3 credits
This course is designed for students who have major responsibilities in Carleton Players productions as Stage Managers, Actors and Designers. Students enrolled in this class will have more responsibility and be expected to commit to more time than the students registered in Theater 190, including additional time for research, design and role preparation. Students in this course will get in-depth learning experiences in the processes most central to the discipline; the creation of performances. Students will waitlist for the course; enrollment in the course will be by instructor’s permission depending on the responsibilities students have.
Course will meet weeks 2 through 6, the drop add period will be the end of week 2. Open only to students in THEA 199 cohort
- Fall 2024, Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
- Student is a member of the THEA 199 Student Cohort
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THEA 209 Project Course 6 credits
This interdisciplinary course, taught in conjunction with a full-scale Carleton Players production, will explore one of Shakespeare’s greatest and most complex works, Twelfth Night. We will investigate the play’s historical, social, and theatrical contexts as we try to understand not only the world that produced the play, but the world that came out of it. How should what we learn of the past inform a modern production? How can performance offer interpretive arguments about the play’s meanings? Mixing embodied and experiential learning, individual and group projects may involve dramaturgy, stagecraft, literary analysis, music, and research in Special Collections.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice IS, International Studies
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THEA 211 Intermediate Acting 6 credits
This course builds on the core principles of THEA 110 through scene study, improvisational exercises, and script analysis. Students will practice the techniques of Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen, and Stella Adler as they deepen their ability to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances. Expected preparation: Theater 110 or significant acting experience.
Extra time required
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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THEA 226 Avant-garde Theater and Performance 6 credits
"Make it new!" was the rallying cry of the modernists, and ever since, the theater has never ceased its efforts to break both aesthetic and social conventions, boundaries, and taboos. Beginning with some of the important precursors of the twentieth century–Artaud, Brecht, and Meyerhold–this course will explore the history and theory of the avant-garde, charting the rise of interdisciplinary “performance." Students will both analyze and perform work written and inspired by these avant-garde artists.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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THEA 234 Lighting Design for the Performing Arts 6 credits
An introduction to and practice in stage lighting for the performing arts. Coursework will cover the function of light in design; lighting equipment and technology; communication graphics through practical laboratory explorations. Application of principles for performance events and contemporary lighting problems will be studied through hands-on application.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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THEA 238 Costume Design for the Performing Arts 6 credits
An introductory course in costume design. This course will examine the basic concepts of costume design and how they apply to the performing arts. The collaborative process, basic rendering techniques and clothing history will also be studied. In depth analysis of script, characters and choreography will lead to an exploration of how the principles of costume design can be used to enhance a production. The course will include individual projects, group projects and attendance at live performances.
Extra Time, group projects & attendance at live performances
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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THEA 245 Directing 6 credits
Although many directors begin their artistic careers in some other discipline (usually acting), there is a set of skills particular to the director’s art that is essential to creating life on stage. Central is the ability to translate dramatic action and narrative into the dimensions of theatrical time and space: the always-present challenge of “page to stage.” In this course, students will learn methods of text analysis strategic to this process as well as the rudiments of using that analysis to generate effective staging and powerful acting. Having mastered the fundamentals, students will then explore and enhance their theatrical imagination, that creative mode unique to the medium of live performance. Class time will be devoted to work on three major projects and almost daily exercises.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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THEA 309 Project Course 6 credits
This interdisciplinary course, taught in conjunction with a full-scale Carleton Players production, will explore one of Shakespeare’s greatest and most complex works, Twelfth Night. We will investigate the play’s historical, social, and theatrical contexts as we try to understand not only the world that produced the play, but the world that came out of it. How should what we learn of the past inform a modern production? How can performance offer interpretive arguments about the play’s meanings? Taken at the 300 level, this course requires a major scholarly or creative term-long project.
Instructor consent required
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice IS, International Studies
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This course requires permission from the instructor.
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