Notes: The aim of this course is to explore the use of smartphone and computer animation, video, and editing applications to participate in various styles of moviemaking; expressionistic, narrative, and documentary. Students will also be introduced to screenwriting, lighting, and sound design, plus experiment with creative use of social media deployment and interactivity.

Notes: This offering of MUSI 301 will focus on the History of Funk.

Notes: This offering of MUSI 301 will focus on the genre of Progressive Rock.

Notes: This is a multimedia survey course exploring the guitar and its history. The course will include an examination of the instrument's earliest predecessors from antiquity and the Middle Ages, through its first appearance in printed tablature collections of the Renaissance to its ubiquitous position today. Discussions will centre on a survey of a wide range of music for the guitar and its various permutations and will include analyses and discussions of these works. Lectures will be supplemented with sound recordings, video, and live performances.