INTL 3050: Global Re-Entry Seminar Global projects are often lifechanging and many students want to make sense of their experience and deepen global learning after returning to campus. This course provides opportunities for selfreflection about global experiences, for connecting with peers to share stories, and for translating these experiences into skills and future professional opportunities, which may include internships, scholarships, post-graduate study or employment. Students completing this seminar will have reflected on their global experiences, articulated and identified transferable skills garnered while away, and integrated these reflections into future academic plans, personal aspirations, or career goals. Units: 1/6 Category: Category I Recommended Background: This course is intended for students who have participated in WPI’s global programs, including global IQPs, MQPs, Humanities projects, or exchange programs, either in the US or abroad. INTL 4100: Senior Seminar in International and Global Studies In this capstone seminar in International and Global Studies, students will reflect on what they learned in previous global experiences and critically analyze contemporary global issues. The seminar aims to develop habits of lifelong learning as students articulate strategies for translating global experiences and expertise into personal values and professional opportunities in their future careers. Units: 1/3 Category: Category I
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Music MU/PSY 2501: Music and Mind How are we able to distinguish instruments, timbres and rhythms from the intertwined sonic stream presented by the world? How do we organize these elements in time to create rhythms, melodies, phrases and pieces? How do perception and memory contribute to our understanding and navigation of a musical work? We will explore these questions by considering the cognitive and perceptual processes that shape our musical experience. Topics covered will include event distinction, temporal perception, hierarchical organization, perceptual grouping, expertise, memory and categorization. Psychological Ideas will be musically illustrated through close listening exercises involving a variety of musical works. We will consider how psychological principles are applied to music technologies, such as compression algorithms, mixing methodologies and the field of music information retrieval. We will consider experimental methods that purport to further our understanding of musical experience. Units: 1/3 Category: Category I Recommended Background: Fundamentals of Music I and/or Fundamentals of Music II
MU 1611: Fundamentals of Music I This course concentrates on basic music theory of the common practice period. If time permits, instruction includes ear training, sight singing, and work on scales and intervals. Units: 1/3 Category: Category I Recommended Background: basic knowledge of reading music. MU 2300: Foundations of Music Technology This course will present ways to facilitate musicianship through the use of technology. Course topics include an introduction to music notation software, MIDI and audio recording, signal processing, and interactive music system programming. The course will address past, current, and emerging trends in music technology as they relate to facilitating an understanding of musical concepts. Students may not receive credit for both MU 2300 and MU 230X. This course will be offered in 2022-23, and in alternating years thereafter. Units: 1/3 Category: Category II Suggested Background: a basic understanding of music notation and the fundamentals of music.
MU 1511: Introduction to Music This course, designed for students who have little or no previous experience in music, will present an approach to the study of music that includes studying some concepts of music theory (rhythms, scales, keys, intervals, harmony). The course will also include a study of some of the great masterpieces though listening, reading, and discussion. Units: 1/3 Category: Category I Recommended Background: No previous experience is necessary.
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