2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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This section of the Catalog includes course descriptions, listed alphabetically by discipline. The descriptions provide information on course numbers, titles, the level of instruction, credit, course sequence, content, and prerequisites as shown in the following example:
CHE 2100 Introduction to Organic and Biological Chemistry
Credits: 5
Prerequisite: CHE 1100
Description: A study of the elements of organic and biological chemistry. This course satisfies requirements for nursing programs and other fields requiring a survey of organic and biological chemistry.
The first two to four letters, called the course subject code, represent the area of study or discipline, e.g., CHE represents chemistry. The course number follows the course subject code, e.g., 2100. The first digit in a four-digit course number designates the level of instruction. Only courses numbered 1000 or above will be included in credits toward a degree. Courses with numbers up to and including 1999 are primarily for freshmen, 2000 through 2999 primarily for sophomores, 3000 through 3999 primarily for juniors, and 4000 through 4999 primarily for seniors. In general, students should not take courses above the level of their class (based upon semester hours earned), but they may do so at one level above if they have the specified prerequisites. In special cases, students may be permitted to take courses more than one level above that designated for their class if they obtain the permission of their advisor and of the faculty member teaching the course and if they meet the prerequisite requirements. Course descriptions provide a summary of the content of the course. If a prerequisite must be met before a student can register for a course, this information is listed above the course description. Attributes, such as Multicultural, General Studies, or Guaranteed Transfer, are listed after the course description. A list of courses being offered in a given semester, instructors, class meeting times, and locations is described in the Class Schedule.
Types of Courses
- Regular courses appear in this section of the University Catalog and are offered on a regular basis.
- Independent study courses provide students the opportunity to pursue in-depth study of a topic of special interest. Independent study courses are specified as 498_ and include an alpha character in the course number. Independent study courses are published in the Class Schedule.
- Special topics or omnibus courses are temporary courses that are not listed in the Catalog. They may be used to pilot-test a course, present a special topic, or provide a unique, experiential-learning opportunity. Omnibus courses use a specified range of course numbers: 190_, 290_, 390_, 490_ and include an alpha character in the course number. Omnibus courses are published in the Class Schedule.
- Variable topics courses allow courses of varying titles under an overall theme or “umbrella” course. Variable topic courses include an alpha character in the course number and are published in the Class Schedule.
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MUS 3830 - Guitar Ensemble
Credits: 1
Description: In preparation for a performance of guitar chamber music, students receive coaching and direction on all assigned material. Students develop essential ensemble playing skills such as following a conductor, giving and receiving cues, sight-reading, listening and responding musically to others, the ability to adapt to various musical situations as an ensemble player, and confidence and poise on stage. This ensemble is open to all students in any major or degree program.
Note: This course may be repeated for credit.
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MUS 3831 - Percussion Chamber Ensemble
Credits: 1
Description: This course is designed to explore and study percussion performance techniques through rehearsal and performance of standard ensemble literature. It is a non-auditioned ensemble and open to all students regardless of their major.
Note: This course may be repeated for credit.
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MUS 3832 - Collaborative Piano
Credits: 1
Description: This course is a study of collaborative piano, exploring various piano repertoires of collaborative piano in different sizes and genres over the course of Western music history. Upon voice/instrumental applied instructors’ and ensemble directors’ recommendations of repertoires, collaborative pieces are assigned to piano students in the beginning of the semester to allow enough time for students to learn. Students are coached during the class period on their collaborative pieces, while also required to collaborate during ensemble rehearsals/lessons. Piano performing experience is required. The final concert takes place at the end of the semester.
Note: This course may be repeated for credit.
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MUS 3833 - Opera
Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): MUS 172A or approval of instructor
Description: This course is designed to prepare students for a performance of a full-length opera or opera scenes. Students receive coaching and direction on all assigned material. In addition, students may take part in exercises which may increase their abilities to develop natural stage movements appropriate to their operatic characters. Students fill out a character profile form for each of their assigned roles. This ensemble is open to all students who successfully pass the audition.
Note: This course may be repeated for credit.
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MUS 3834 - Gamelan Ensemble
Credits: 1
Description: The Gamelan Ensemble provides students with the opportunity to experience traditional Balinese gamelan music through participation and performance. Students are introduced to basic techniques and repertoire on a Balinese gamelan angklung. The semester culminates in an evening performance. No prior musical experience is necessary, and instruments will be provided in class. It is a non-auditioned ensemble and open to all students regardless of their major.
Note: This course may be repeated for credit.
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MUS 3835 - African Drum and Dance Ensemble
Credits: 1
Description: This ensemble introduces the varied and rich musical traditions of Africa and the African diasporas through participation and performance. The course focuses on the development of a variety of drumming and dance techniques, while cultivating a program of pieces for performance at the end of the semester. No previous musical experience is required, and it is a non-auditioned ensemble and open to all students regardless of their major.
Note: This course may be repeated for credit.
Cross Listed Course(s): DANC 3835, HPS 3835
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MUS 3840 - Live Performance Workshop
Credits: 1
Corequisite(s): MUS 1858
Description: This course prepares students to play live, on-stage with professional equipment to the highest musical standards. Using songs prepared in MUS 1858 Pre-Production, students perform in various live group sessions in which musical communication, performance ability, stage presence, and sound design are modeled by instructors who will provide feedback. This course can be repeated for credit.
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MUS 3850 - Commercial Composition and Arranging
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 1130, MUS 1140
Description: This course requires that students study and apply techniques, methodologies, and concepts for composing and arranging original music. Students analyze classic and contemporary songs and arrangements, including score analysis and critical listening assessments.
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MUS 3860 - Live Songwriting Workshop
Credits: 2
Description: Within this course, students develop original songs to a professional standard. Students work in small groups, writing several songs to specific briefs; thus, students put into practice various songwriting methodologies and lyric writing techniques. Students also analyze the work of various professional songwriters to gain a better understanding of their creative processes. Emphasis is placed on understanding the qualities of specific genres and writing to those specifications.
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MUS 3862 - Advanced Songwriting
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 1864, MUS 2865
Description: Building on Foundations of Songwriting, this course examines more advanced methods, techniques, and practices of the songwriting craft. Students deconstruct a more challenging set of songs to analyze their melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, formal, and lyrical qualities. Students continue to build their theoretical knowledge of music as well as their music literacy and aural skills. Using the knowledge gained through this analysis, students are asked to produce original material that expresses their uniqueness as songwriters as they work within a number of prompts that encourage them to write in a plethora of styles and genres, as well as transcending traditional genre boundaries. Students also reflect on their songwriting practices and style.
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MUS 3870 - Commercial Electronic Music
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 1110, MUS 1120, MUS 1866, MUS 1864, MUS 161B
Description: This course introduces students to the basic components and processes involved in creating original music by using contemporary electronic software and hardware. Students examine and learn to use programming, loops, samples, synthesis, MIDI, various DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) as well as various contemporary and classic hardware tools used regularly to compose electronic music. Students are required to create multiple compositions by integrating a range of electronic music tools, techniques, and methodologies.
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MUS 3878 - Group Recital
Credits: 2
Prerequisite(s): MUS 1110, MUS 1120, MUS 1858, MUS 3840
Description: Building on Live Performance Workshop (MUS 3840 ), this class takes a more advanced approach to live performance. While continuing to develop technical and improvisational skills on their chosen instrument, students develop their skills as Musical Directors as they form and manage their own ensembles. Students choose repertoire as they cultivate a group sound and personality. Faculty offer feedback and constructive guidance to help mold a band into a cohesive professional unit. Various faculty members are assigned to each group as mentors. Each ensemble is responsible for constructing and performing a set for an audience of their peers and instructors, receiving feedback from both.
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MUS 3880 - The Politics of Artists and Repertoire
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS1880, MUS 1890, MUS1892
Description: Building directly on MUS 1880: Repertoire and Hit Song Analysis as well as MUS 1892: Artist Discovery and Development, the students in the course examine more advanced concepts and practices in artists and repertoire. While digging deeper into the history of artists and repertoire and record labels, students focus more acutely on the backroom negotiations and deal making that has contributed to success or failure by examining various case studies of iconic figures in this field. Students examine and compare both old and new models of artists and repertoire practice. Ultimately, students gain an understanding of how industry professionals have navigated the complex politics between the various stakeholders in the music industry. Students construct their own personal approach to artists and repertoire by synthesizing various historical methods and techniques in this field.
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MUS 3882 - Music Industry Contract Negotiation
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020; COMM 1010
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): MUS 1890
Description: This course focuses on developing the skills necessary to initiate and broker various types of contracts and/or deals related to the contemporary music industry. While integrating theory and psychology into the class, students spend a large portion of the semester practicing their negotiation skills in live role-playing exercises. Through such activities, students gain the ability to draft deals/contracts with authority and complete mark-ups and final versions that balance artists’ aspirations, personal goals, and legal obligations.
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MUS 3884 - Managing an Established Act
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): MUS1880, MUS1890, MUS1892, MUS 2882, MUS 2886, MUS 3880
Description: This course focuses on how to sustain an artist’s career over the long term. Students learn to navigate through changes in market trends to ensure that their artists remain relevant in a dynamic environment. The course covers maintaining existing audiences while attracting new ones through numerous marketing strategies. Students learn to re-brand and re-launch existing acts for new times, markets, and audiences. The course examines a range of case studies, regarding how to manage and elevate an existing act as well as re-imagine the career of an iconic artist who has fallen out of favor.
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MUS 3885 - Artist Deal Suite
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 1000; MUS 1120; MUS 1890; MUS 2888; ENG 1020; COMM 1010
Description: This course introduces students to a variety of contemporary music industry deals and contract types. Students identify and analyze the conventional terms and conditions within these various documents. A range of legal terms and procedures are discussed with the goal of improving students’ ability to communicate with lawyers, record executives, and other major stakeholders in the music industry.
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MUS 3886 - Live Tour Management
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 1890
Description: This course examines the details of designing and managing a live tour at a local, national, and international scale. In the current music industry, live touring is often times the most important and lucrative component of an artist’s career. Students learn how to logistically plan and budget for various sizes of venues and lengths of outings. Students hone their skills particularly in logistics organization, time management, and financial forecasting.
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MUS 3888 - Fundamentals of Record Production
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 1000; ENG 1020; MUS 1110; MUS 1890
Description: This class focuses on the processes of moving from a finished arrangement in the rehearsal room to a master recording. Students learn about selecting the appropriate songs, quality control, pre-production, choosing and working with a producer and engineer, goal setting, mixing, mastering, and the politics of the recording studio. Throughout the semester, students analyze and discuss the production of iconic songs and albums, exploring its effects on the entire songwriting and creative process. Partnering with local studios, students have an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a recording studio, working with industry producers and engineers to perform, conduct, mix, and master their own compositions.
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MUS 3890 - Pop Music and Politics
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020; MUS 1000; COMM 1010
Description: Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this course examines how popular music has voiced the concerns of the masses and the marginalized to bring about social awareness and change. This seminar-style course challenges students to critically think about, and listen to, a variety of politically driven music from the U.S. and abroad. Discussions of theoretical frameworks for analyzing politics and popular music, exploring definitions and basic concepts are deployed throughout the semester. Students explore music’s role in the major socio-political movements in American history as well as several cases outside of the US context. Students gain a greater appreciation for the ability of popular music to shape the social and political world.
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MUS 3891 - Detroit Music Heritage
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1010; ENG 1020; MUS 1000
Description: In this course, students explore the crucial role that music has played in Detroit’s development, and, conversely, how the city’s unique identity encouraged its particular sonic trajectory. From Motown to techno, Detroit is widely known as an important site of American musical development. Countering narratives of Detroit as a “dying” bankrupt city in perpetual decline, this course shows its vitality and tenacity through a social history of the city’s rich musical heritage. Incorporating an interdisciplinary approach, this course explores a diversity of readings, listening, and films from a range of academic fields including: history, sociology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, and journalism.
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MUS 3892 - Live Sound
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 1000, MUS 1130, MUS 1140
Description: This course covers the fundamentals of running live sound in various stage contexts for a range of instrumentations and musical styles. Students learn how to produce front of house (“FOH”) sound mixes and onstage monitor mixes. Working with professional PA systems, mixers, microphones, and other musical equipment, students have ample opportunity to gain practical hands-on experience in this subject.
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MUS 3895 - Hip-Hop Culture and Rap Music
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): AAS 1010 or ENG 1020
Description: This course seeks to examine the long-standing cultural warfare that exists among core elements of Hip-Hop culture and the impact such challenges have on gender and social identities. Students will think critically about Hip-Hop music beyond the scope of entertainment through the examination of literature, films, and music that provide interdisciplinary discourse on Hip-Hop in our society.
Cross Listed Course(s): AAS 3920, HIS 3920, SOC 3250
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MUS 3910 - Advanced Techniques and Improvisation I
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 2920
Description: Building on Intermediate Techniques and Improv I and II, this course provides students the opportunity to develop advanced technical facility and improvisational abilities on their chosen instrument. This involves a logical progression of advanced-level exercises and applications. Students are challenged to experiment with advanced level techniques to further develop a creative approach to improvisation. The class situates technical vocabulary and improvisational skills within a variety of challenging musical contexts across numerous genres.
Note: This course may be taken once per instrument area.
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MUS 3920 - Advanced Techniques and Improvisation II
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 3910, Advanced Techniques & Improvisation I in the same instrument area.
Description: This course builds directly on the previous semester’s iteration, providing students an opportunity to further develop a deeper facility on their chosen instrument. This development involves a logical progression of exercises and application. Students continue to experiment with advanced level techniques to further develop a creative approach to improvisation. The course situates technical vocabulary and improvisational skills within a variety of musical contexts across numerous genres.
Note: This course may be taken once per instrument area.
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MUS 3940 - Group Performance Instruction III
Credits: 2
Prerequisite(s): MUS 1110, MUS 1120, MUS 2950
Description: This is a continuation of MUS 2950: Group Performance II, offering group instruction on a specific instrument.
Note: This course may be taken once per instrument area.
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MUS 3950 - Group Performance Instruction IV
Credits: 2
Prerequisite(s): MUS 1010, 1110, 1120, 3940
Description: This is a continuation of MUS 3940L Group Performance III, offering group instruction on a specific instrument.
Note: This course may be taken once per instrument area.
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MUS 3980 - Internship in Music
Credits: 1-3
Prerequisite(s): Major in Music; permission of the instructor
Description: Supervised by a faculty member in the Department of Music, internships provide practical, hands-on experience in a professional field related to the major. Internship placements must be established prior to enrollment in this course in consultation with the Applied Learning Center.
Internship requirements vary by department. For information and instructions on finding and enrolling in an internship, contact the Applied Learning Center at 303-615-1333 or internships@msudenver.edu.
Note: This course may be taken for 1-3 credit hours. It may be taken for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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MUS 4000 - Musics of Latin America
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Minimum performance standard score(s) on one or more of the reading, writing, and math placement tests as appropriate.
Description: This course explores the diverse, vibrant musical traditions of Latin America. Particular attention will be given to the many ways in which cultural, historical and political developments throughout the Western hemisphere both inform and are informed by musical practices. Students will become familiar with some of the most influential and popular Latin musics and musicians, as well as the larger cultural context from which they emerge and continue to operate. Histories and theories of colonialism, race, urbanization/modernization, and diaspora will be applied as a means of understanding various functions and meanings the music has come to articulate. Genres to be studied range from traditional, folkloric, and religious music to contemporary popular, electronic, and film music.
General Studies: Arts and Humanities, Global Diversity
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MUS 4010 - From Blues to Hip Hop: African American Musical Heritage
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020
Description: This course traces the history of blues, both as a specific genre and as a range of techniques and approaches that have been at the center of American music and culture, from 19th century roots up to the present. It explores the commonly accepted blues mainstream exemplified by figures like Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, and B.B. King, and also the central role blues has played in jazz, folk, country, gospel, rock, soul, and rap. While following the evolution of the music through the 20th century, we examine how blues has served as a metaphor for African American culture as it permeates the American tradition.
General Studies: Arts and Humanities
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
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MUS 4110 - Analysis of Music
Credits: 2
Prerequisite(s): MUS 2130 and MUS 2140
Description: This course involves advanced analytical techniques applied to various music forms and styles. Traditional and modern methods of analysis are discussed.
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MUS 4350 - Jazz Pedagogy
Credits: 2
Prerequisite(s): MUS 2450, MUS 3030
Description: This course expands and transfers jazz music performance skills into applied teaching knowledge by exploring educational philosophies, objectives, and methods.
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MUS 4360 - Teaching Secondary Music I
Credits: 2
Prerequisite(s): MUS 2340 and formal admission into the music education program
Corequisite(s): MUS 4361
Description: Students develop introductory competencies for teaching instrumental music and technology at the elementary and secondary school levels. Course content includes experience with traditional vocal and instrumental teaching methodologies and their application to music teaching. Additional instruction includes conceptual teaching, instructional strategies, classroom management, assessment strategies, and the role of secondary music in education.
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MUS 4361 - Supervised Field Experience in Secondary Music I
Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): MUS 2340
Corequisite(s): MUS 4360
Description: This course is designed to integrate concepts developed in MUS 4360 with practice in the classroom environment and must be taken concurrently with MUS 4360. Students work with secondary music teachers in area secondary schools in a fifty-five (55) hour supervised field experience.
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MUS 4370 - Teaching Secondary Music II
Credits: 2
Prerequisite(s): MUS 2340; MUS 4360
Corequisite(s): MUS 4371
Description: Students develop advanced competencies for teaching secondary music at the secondary school levels. Course content expands on experiences with traditional music teaching methodologies, incorporating the use of technology as a means to facilitate musical content and concepts. Additional instruction includes classroom management, assessment strategies, and the role of secondary music in education.
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MUS 4371 - Supervised Field Experience in Secondary Music II
Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): MUS 2340; MUS 4361
Corequisite(s): MUS 4370
Description: This course is designed to integrate concepts developed in MUS 4370 with practice in the classroom environment and must be taken concurrently with MUS 4370. Students work with secondary music teachers in area secondary schools in a fifty-five (55) hour supervised field experience.
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MUS 4410 - Piano Pedagogy
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 271B (Private Piano III) or MUS 273B (Performance III in Piano) or Permission of Instructor
Description: This course is a study of the methods, literature, editions, and techniques used in teaching piano privately and in groups.
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MUS 4420 - Vocal Pedagogy
Credits: 2
Prerequisite(s): MUS 271A (Private Voice III) or MUS 273A (Performance III in Voice) or Permission of Instructor
Description: This course consists of a series of lectures, demonstrations, and discussions about physiology of the human voice (anatomy of the larynx, respiration, resonation, and articulation), young voices and how to teach them, and methods and philosophy of teaching voice.
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MUS 4430 - Guitar Pedagogy and Literature
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 271K (Private Guitar III) or MUS 273K (Performance III in Guitar) or Permission of Instructor
Description: This course will survey a broad variety of pedagogical methods and techniques for the classical guitar, including both recent and historical approaches. In addition, the canonical repertoire for the classical guitar will be examined.
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MUS 4440 - Contemporary Music Education Practices
Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): MUS 2130
Description: This course enables students to develop performance skills and strategies for teaching instrumental and choral music in the areas of popular and jazz styles, as well as other electronic music practices.
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MUS 4450 - Organ Pedagogy
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 271E (Private Organ III) or MUS 273E (Organ Performance III) or permission of instructor
Description: This course consists of a study of pedagogical methods, techniques, repertoire and editions for teaching the organ, including current, as well as historical, techniques and literature.
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MUS 4520 - Vocal Pedagogy and Literature
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 172A (Private Voice II) or Permission of Instructor
Description: This course utilizes lectures, demonstrations, and discussion to provide an overview of the anatomy and function, acoustic properties and resonance, hygiene and health, instruction, and performance literature of the individual singing voice.
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MUS 4710 - Private Instruction VII
Credits: 2
Prerequisite(s): MUS 3720
Corequisite(s): MUS 0020, at least one other music course, and the major ensemble in the private instruction area being studied
Description: This course is a continuation of MUS 3720 and covers individual instruction in voice, piano, organ, guitar, electric bass, electric guitar, the standard band and orchestral instruments, composition, or conducting. It includes required weekly attendance at a one-hour performance class in the area of study in which students perform for one another. At the end of the semester, the student must successfully perform before a faculty jury committee in order to pass the course.
Note: This course may be repeated for credit in a different area of study. Students must also enroll in MUS 0020 (Recital Attendance).
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MUS 4720 - Private Instruction VIII
Credits: 2
Prerequisite(s): MUS 4710
Corequisite(s): MUS 0020, at least one other music course, and the major ensemble in the private instruction area being studied
Description: This course is a continuation of MUS 4710 and covers individual instruction in voice, piano, organ, guitar, electric bass, electric guitar, the standard band and orchestral instruments, composition, or conducting. It includes required weekly attendance at a one-hour performance class in the area of study in which students perform for one another. At the end of the semester, the student must successfully perform before a faculty jury committee in order to pass the course.
Note: This course may be repeated for credit in a different area of study. Students must also enroll in MUS 0020 (Recital Attendance).
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MUS 4730 - Performance VII (Primary Performance Area)
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 3740 or MUS 4720; and a successful performance concentration audition
Corequisite(s): MUS 0020; MUS 4790; and the major ensemble in the private instruction
Description: This course is a continuation of MUS 3740 and is only for students majoring in music performance. It covers individual instruction in voice, piano, organ, guitar, electric bass, electric guitar, the standard band and orchestral instruments, composition, or conducting. It includes required weekly attendance at a one-hour performance class in the area of study in which students perform for one another. At the end of the semester, the student must successfully perform before a faculty jury committee in order to pass the course. The repertoire for the completion of MUS 4740, Senior Recital Performance, must be determined in this course.
Note: This course may be repeated for credit in a different area of study. Students must also enroll in MUS 0020 (Recital Attendance ).
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MUS 4731 - Performance VII (Composition)
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 3741 and formal admission to the composition program
Corequisite(s): MUS 0020, at least one other music course, and the ensemble designated by the composition faculty.
Description: This course is a continuation of MUS 3711 and is only for students majoring in music composition. It includes required weekly attendance at a one-hour performance class in which students perform for one another. At the end of the semester, the student must successfully pass a review by a faculty jury committee in order to pass the course. Students must also enroll in MUS 0020 (Recital Attendance).
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MUS 4740 - Senior Recital Performance
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 4730, completion of General Studies requirements, and senior standing. For senior experience credit, the student must also complete MUS 4800.
Corequisite(s): MUS 0020, at least one other music course, and the major ensemble in the private instruction area being studied
Description: This course is a continuation of MUS 4730 and is only for students majoring in music performance. It covers individual instruction in voice, piano, organ, guitar, electric bass, electric guitar, the standard band and orchestral instruments, composition, or conducting. It includes required weekly attendance at a one-hour performance class in the area of study in which students perform for one another. During the semester, the student will perform a 50-minute Senior Recital that must be approved by the process specified on the Senior Recital Hearing Request form.
Note: This course may be repeated for credit in a different area of study. Students must also enroll in MUS 0020 (Recital Attendance).
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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MUS 4790 - Senior Recital Project
Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): MUS 3220
Corequisite(s): MUS 4730
Description: This course involves writing program notes for the repertoire selected for MUS 4740, Senior Recital Performance. For senior experience credit, the student must also complete MUS 4740, complete all General Studies requirements, and have senior standing.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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MUS 4800 - Seminar in Music Repertoire
Credits: 2
Prerequisite(s): Senior Standing; MUS 2130, MUS 3220, and MUS 2720 or MUS 2740
Description: This course is designed to broaden and deepen the student’s knowledge of music literature in his or her chosen area of applied study. Individual student foci will be determined by an instrument-specific repertoire list, concentrating on important style periods for that instrument. Students make use of musical scores, in addition to listening and reading assignments, as they prepare presentations, which will outline elements of musical style and performance practice. This course, together with MUS 4740 Senior Recital Performance, fulfills the Senior Experience requirement.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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MUS 4860 - Co-Writing
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 1130, MUS 1140, MUS 2866
Description: Songwriting is often a collaborative effort, and this course introduces students to the most effective ways to work with a team of artists to create original music and manage the business of co-creating songs (i.e., royalty splits). Throughout the semester, students examine the material and dynamics of great songwriting teams such as: Lennon/McCartney, Simon/Garfunkel, Jagger/Richards, etc., to better understand their creative processes. Students gain experience in the qualities necessary to work productively in a group, including time management, social skills, and organizational skills. In this upper level course, students are challenged to use a wide range of techniques and methodologies to co-create original music to a high professional standard. Students are asked to reflect on their processes and dynamics of artistic teamwork, and will take on multiple songwriting roles (i.e., lyricist, arranger, composer, etc.) throughout the course.
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MUS 4862 - Writing Music for Film & TV
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 1130, MUS 1140, MUS 2860, MUS 2864, MUS 2865, MUS 2866, MUS 3860
Description: This course examines the processes involved in writing music for film, television, and other forms of visual media. While analyzing well-known television and film composers (i.e. John Williams, Danny Elfman, Mike Post) and their music, students gain experience in writing for certain scenes, learning to establish mood, highlight plot points, and support the action on screen. Students also discuss the commercial practice of placement, synchronization, and licensing to show how the industry pairs music with film/television opportunities.
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MUS 4880 - Record Label Operations
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 1880, MUS 1890, MUS 1892, MUS 2880, MUS 2882, MUS 2886, MUS 3880, MUS 3882
Description: This course takes a comprehensive look at the day-to-day business operations of classic and contemporary record labels. While reviewing how to acquire (artists and repertoire) and manage a roster of artists, this course focuses on the big picture and long-term planning that is needed to sustain such a business. Students gain experience in understanding how to establish and maintain distribution channels as well as the basics of the manufacturing process. Students analyze case studies of existing labels, but also propose ideas for establishing and running their own original record label(s).
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MUS 4882 - Music Industry Event Management
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 3880, MUS 3882
Description: This course examines how to plan, produce, promote, and manage special events, from small club gigs and fundraisers to festival concerts and publicity tours. Students start to build the organizational and communication skills necessary to design and execute such events. This course focuses on the analysis of past events, gaining insight into the processes and best practices for event creation and management. Additionally, students work to produce and/or manage original event(s) throughout the term.
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MUS 4884 - Music Industry Case Study Research
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 4880, MUS 4882
Description: This class critically assesses the careers of numerous notable figures in the modern music industry. This analysis of a cross section of managers, producers, record executives, artists and repertoire gurus, and publicity giants provides an intense, intimate, and in-depth insight into the lives and work of the industry’s top professionals. Students are required to undertake extensive primary and secondary research on several notable music industry figures, drawing out lessons and developing models for their own careers.
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MUS 4888 - Music Publishing and Copyright Law
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 1890
Description: This course examines the processes of publishing songs, including the basics of how to navigate the complexities of state, national, and international copyright law. While reviewing a history of copyright law, students examine the roles of a publisher in acquisition, marketing, and creative development. The course also covers various types of publishing deals to familiarize students with their standard terms and conditions, as they learn to protect their rights as songwriters, artists, and managers. This course explores songwriting splits and how to negotiate a fair and equitable publishing deal. Students learn how to register their songs and examine the legalities of licensing and synchronization.
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MUS 4890 - Senior Recital Performance
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 4910, MUS 4920 in the primary instrument area
Description: This course is the culmination of the student’s degree in Commercial Music Performance. The student is responsible for individually constructing, organizing, promoting, and executing an individual recital. While they may perform with others, each musical selection must feature the student for which the degree is to be awarded. Students meet with their faculty mentor to discuss their ideas and progress toward their final performance. The individual student are required to organize rehearsals in preparation for the final performance. Students are also required to construct extensive program notes, which explain their choice of music, personnel and staging while situating each of their song selections within their proper historical, social, and cultural context. Students must display a high level of professionalism throughout the semester as well as within the final performance. Repertoire should include a mix of original and pre-existing material, which displays a wide range of performance skills in several contemporary music genres.
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MUS 4892 - Songwriting Portfolio
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 4860, MUS 4862
Description: As a culmination of their studies, students compile an extensive and representative portfolio of their work to date, both recordings and written scores. Students examine and reflect on their own output as songwriters, identifying their style, strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in their resumes. Students devise and execute a plan to fill out their portfolio to establish a well-rounded and marketable collection of material, which allows them to take advantage of a wide range of opportunities in the contemporary music industry. Students are required to produce a final performance of their original songwriting work, which showcases their range of output to date.
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MUS 4899 - Commercial Music Capstone
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 4840, 4850, MUS 4860, 4862, MUS 4880, 4882
Description: This course is a culmination of the MSU @ DIME music degree, requiring students to integrate and apply the knowledge they have gained over the entirety of their studies. Students conduct ethnographic and library/online research in order to identify a range of potential career opportunities for themselves. Students demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of their field as they examine how these areas are relevant to their various potential career paths.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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MUS 4910 - Techniques Practicum
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 3920
Description: This course is the culmination of technical development from the Techniques and Improvisation sequence. The course explores advanced technical concepts on a student’s instrument in preparation for the Commercial Music Capstone Course and Senior Recital Performance. Students continue to learn professional-level techniques to further master the craft of their specific instrument, utilizing a logical progression of exercises and application. The course explores the technical vocabulary for a variety of musical concepts across numerous genres.
Note: This course may be taken once per instrument area.
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MUS 4920 - Personal Expression
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 3920
Description: This course represents the culmination of improvisation and self-expression skills learned from the Techniques and Improvisation sequence. The course explores advanced improvisational concepts on a student’s instrument in preparation for the Commercial Music Capstone Course and Senior Recital Performance. Students continue to experiment with professional-level improvisational concepts to further develop their personal style of expression on their instrument. Students apply their improvisational skills within a variety of musical contexts across numerous genres.
Note: This course may be taken once per instrument area.
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MUS 4950 - Senior Project
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 3220, permission of the instructor, completion of General Studies requirements, and senior standing.
Description: In this course, the student prepares an in-depth and focused project related to music theory, music history, music literature, music education, composition, performance practice, pedagogy, music therapy, or other music-specific topics. The project may be research-based or result in a creative body of work, but includes a research component and a written document. If the project is not research-based, other evidence of work will be included in addition to the written document, such as performance, web-based product, or other significant work approved by the instructor. The written document of the project shall be scholarly and well documented according to departmental standards. Fulfills the Senior Experience requirement for the BA in Music.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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MUS 4960 - Senior Composition Project
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): MUS 3741, completion of General Studies requirements, and senior standing.
Description: This is the final composition project in which students compose, oversee public performances of their compositions, and give a public lecture on their compositional activities.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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MUS 4971 - Student Teaching and Seminar: Elementary (K-6)
Credits: 6
Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of all requirements for the Bachelor of Music Education major, the teacher licensure program, and general studies courses
Corequisite(s): MUS 4972
Description: This is a supervised, full-time, eight week student teaching experience in an accredited public or private elementary school, providing increasing responsibility for the teaching, supervision, and assessment of learners (grades K-6). Regularly scheduled observations and five hours of seminars conducted by an appointed university supervisor are part of the student teaching requirement. Teacher-candidates must complete a teacher work sample and be rated as proficient in all Colorado Teacher Quality Standards to receive MSU Denver’s recommendation for teacher licensure.
Note: Initial sign-off on program requirements (e.g. teacher work sample/portfolio) by faculty advisor. For Senior Experience credit, the student must also complete MUS 4972.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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MUS 4972 - Student Teaching and Seminar: Secondary (7-12)
Credits: 6
Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of all requirements for the Bachelor of Music Education major, the teacher licensure program, and general studies courses.
Corequisite(s): MUS 4971
Description: This is a supervised, full-time, eight week student teaching experience in an accredited public or private secondary school, providing increasing responsibility for the teaching, supervision, and assessment of learners (grades 7-12). Regularly scheduled observations and five hours of seminars conducted by an appointed university supervisor are part of the student teaching requirement. Teacher-candidates must complete a teacher work sample and be rated as proficient in all Standards for Colorado Teacher Quality Standards to receive MSU Denver’s recommendation for teacher licensure.
Note: Initial sign-off on program requirements (e.g. teacher work sample/portfolio) by faculty advisor. For Senior Experience credit, the student must also complete MUS 4971.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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NAS 1000 - Introduction to Native American Studies
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Minimum performance standard scores on the reading and writing preassessment placement tests
Description: This course provides an opportunity to study the indigenous population of the United States. The primary focus of the course is on the historical, political, social, and economic relationship between Native Americans and how this culture is embedded in the American culture.
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
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NAS 1020 - Introduction to Social Justice and Decoloniality
Credits: 3
Description: This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary fields of Social Justice and Decolonial Studies through interdisciplinary perspectives, methods, and approaches. Students learn about privilege, power, and oppression and their relationships to race, class, gender, sexuality, and other identities. This course asks complex and difficult questions regarding colonialism, decoloniality, sovereignty, and agency. It offers students opportunities to study social movements, and engage in social justice and decolonial praxis.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Global Diversity
Cross Listed Course(s): AAS 1020, CHS 1020, GWS 1020
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NAS 2240 - Introduction to Native American Literature
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): ENG 1020 or ENG 1021 or NAS 1000
Description: Students study the oral and written literatures of Native Americans in their historical, political and social context. This course is suitable for non-English majors.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: ENG or NAS.
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
Cross Listed Course(s): ENG 2240
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NAS 2700 - Geographies of Environmental Justice
Credits: 3
Description: This class explores why people of color and lower income populations are subject to the disproportionate burden of pollution and contamination and analyzes collective struggles of affected people to democratize access to a clean environment. Environmental justice is at the intersection of social justice and environmentalism and helps us to better understand geographies of socio-environmental injustices and how people take actions to make the places where they live, work, and play safer. Students learn how issues such as air pollution, waste management, unsafe drinking water, working conditions on farms, food deserts, climate change, and other environmental hazards affect people living in low income communities across the United States.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix, GEG or NAS.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-SS2
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
Cross Listed Course(s): GEG 2700
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NAS 3090 - Current Topics in Native American Studies
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): NAS 1000 or permission of instructor
Description: The course will provide an in-depth study of an important topic in Native American Studies.
Note: This course may be repeated for credit under different topics.
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NAS 3110 - Federal Indian Law
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): NAS 1000
Description: This course addresses the legal and political relationship between the United States and American Indians. Students will study the major doctrines in Federal Indian Law, including the doctrines of Discover, Trust, Sovereignty, and Plenary Power with provide the legal/political basis for the U.S. and American Indian relationship. The course also provides a critical examination of current topics such as the continued political control exercised by the U.S. Government over Native American Nations and the meaning of Sovereignty in the context of U.S. and Native Nations.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: NAS or PSC.
Cross Listed Course(s): PSC 3110
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NAS 3200 - Native American Politics
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): NAS 1000 or PSC 1020 or Permission of instructor, and completion of General Studies requirements in Written Communication, Oral Communication, and Quantitative Literacy.
Description: The focus of this course is to examine Native Americans as political beings. Important questions and strategies for understanding the rise and expansion of native politicization will be identified. In general, the students will be able to explain why, how and when movements that demand change emerge. By comparing and contrasting the Native American experience with other powerless groups in society, the students should be able to trace these historical and political factors that led to a change in the movement of insurgency and analyze the specific actions by insurgents that inevitably resulted in the failure or success of those specific actions.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: NAS or PSC.
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
Cross Listed Course(s): PSC 3200
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NAS 3240 - American Indian Women
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GWS 1001 or NAS 1001 Recommended
Description: This course is designed to expose the student to the diverse and varied works of American Indian women. By studying the literature, music, and dance of the American Indian woman, students explore the historical factors that have impacted the lives of both American Indians and non-native people. This course also examines the transition that American Indian women have made in order to survive and attempt to understand their struggles for freedom.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: NAS or GWS.
Cross Listed Course(s): GWS 3240
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NAS 3242 - Contemporary Native American Literature
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020 and ENG 2000 or ENG 2100 or NAS 1000
Description: Students read, analyze, and write about various forms of literature produced by and about the Native American experience with consideration of historical and social contexts. Course content includes important contemporary Native American writers in a variety of cultures, critical readings on indigenous history and pertinent theory, and explore how historical contingencies and political debates inform literature, as well as how literature and culture can inform and challenge public and political opinion.
Note: Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: ENG or NAS.
Cross Listed Course(s): ENG 3242
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NAS 3300 - Land Use, Culture and Conflict
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GEG 1300 or NAS 1000 or PSC 1010 and Junior or Higher Standing
Description: This course introduces students to theories, approaches, and controversies concerning use of land and resources on Indian Reservations. Readings and discussions pose questions related to differing views on land use and resources, how modernization impacts traditional settings, as well as treaties and governmental policies that govern Indian land. Students examine case studies which illustrate current conflict and resolution issues between Native Americans and other actors such as federal, state, and local governments.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix.
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
Cross Listed Course(s): GEG 3300, PSC 3300
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NAS 3301 - Multiculturalism and American Art
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Satisfaction of oral and written communication requirements; ARTH 1500 or ARTH 1600 or ARTH 1700
Description: This course studies the work produced by artists of African American, Asian American, Latino/a American, and Native American ancestry and their contribution to art in the United States during the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will be introduced to the artistic legacies of Africa, Asia, and the Americas and how they intersected with European and New World contexts to provide a dynamic and rich multicultural creative discourse. American artists whose creative activity reflects their varied and complex cultural heritages will be the focus, and students will analyze how bias and discrimination in the art world and culture at large have impacted the artists’ reception. In addition, students will discover how artists have contributed to modern and contemporary social, cultural, and aesthetic debates.
Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: ARTH or NAS.
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
Cross Listed Course(s): ARTH 3300
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NAS 3722 - Native American Cinema
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): NAS 1000
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): ENG 1020 or ENG 1021
Description: Students examine films in several contexts, including the use of film by the dominant society as a means of creating a national identity, socializing Indians, and reinforcing power relationships in the political arena; the use of films by Native American filmmakers as an affirmation of identity and a mechanism for presenting an indigenous view of history, culture and political relationships with the dominant society. Students examine a range of genres, narrative and non-narrative films, live-action films, documentaries, experimental film, and animation. Students examine a broad range of topics, including film form (mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound); the use of film as a modern storytelling medium and as a mechanism for bridging cultural divides; and film theory. The course also examines the historical, cultural, economic, and theoretical aspects of each film/cinematic area.
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
Cross Listed Course(s): ENG 3722
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NURA 3020 - Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice
Credits: 6
Prerequisite(s): Admission to ANO
Description: This course introduces the student to the profession of nursing and the culture of the health care environment. The core knowledge, core competencies and the role of development of the professional nurse are explored. Students begin to develop an understanding of human responses to health and illness within the nurse client relationship. Students begin to apply the nursing process, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning, with an emphasis on communication. Practice environments for the development of basic nursing skills include the facilitated simulation laboratory and a health care facility.
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NURA 3150 - Introduction to Gerontology Nursing
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the ANO or BRNCO and successful completion of all prior courses in the established sequence
Description: This course emphasizes understanding the impact of individual and societal perceptions of aging and the aging process. Students examine cultural, legal, and environmental factors, and the diverse health status found in the older adult. Communication skills are developed as an essential feature of the care of the older adult in a variety of settings. The core knowledge concepts and role development of the professional nurse in caring for older adults are explored.
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NURA 3400 - Evidence Based Practice Through Nursing Research
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): NURA 3020, NURA 3150, NURA 3410, NURA 3700
Corequisite(s): NURA 3500, NURA 3810
Description: This course introduces the student to the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) research process. The knowledge and competence needed to critique published research are explored. Students learn how to use research in support of their EBP. Course content aligns with the Magnet/Pathway to Excellence concepts including Empirical Outcomes, Exemplary Professional Practice, New Knowledge, Innovations, and Improvements, and QSEN Competencies of EBP and Patient-Centered Care. Ethical and legal considerations are also discussed. Qualitative and quantitative research processes are examined. Students complete a literature search using appropriate databases on a researchable problem and communicate findings. Emphasis is placed on the improvement of nursing practice through reading, using, and participating in research.
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NURA 3410 - Clinical Pharmacology
Credits: 4
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the ANO; and successful completion of all prior courses in the established sequence
Description: Clinical pharmacology covers the major principles of pharmacology, drug classifications, and pharmacotherapy. The nursing process, legal, ethical, cultural, and social values are also discussed in relationship to various disease processes and complex patient situations. Drug calculations are also covered. Critical thinking, communication, and safe medication administration is integrated in the course.
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NURA 3500 - Mental Health Nursing
Credits: 5
Prerequisite(s): Admission into the ANO and successful completion of all prior courses in the established sequence
Description: The focus of this course is on the application of foundational mental health nursing concepts and interventions in the care of patients. This course includes the application of developmental theories and ethical principles to the nursing care of mental health patients. Emphasis is placed on therapeutic communication techniques, health promotion, and relapse prevention. Students apply the nursing process using critical thinking and decision making skills while providing safe, basic care to selected patients.
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NURA 3700 - Nursing Health Assessment
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the ANO or BRNCO, and successful completion of all prior courses in the established sequence
Description: This course is designed for students to develop, practice, and demonstrate their health assessment competence. Utilizing the nursing process, the student collects and organizes data to obtain a complete health history and perform a physical examination. Students have an opportunity to practice interviewing skills and physical examination techniques. Emphasis is placed on the use of critical thinking, health promotion, and demonstration of a physical examination while caring for individuals throughout their lifespan.
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NURA 3810 - Medical Surgical Nursing Care I
Credits: 6
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the ANO and successful completion of all prior courses in the established sequence
Description: This course builds on the concepts introduced in Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice. Focus is on utilization of core knowledge and core competencies related to the care of adults with basic and intermediate alterations in health. Students have the opportunity to practice skills using simulation technology and in clinical practice settings. Critical thinking skills are used to begin to apply the nursing process to patient centered. care. This course develops the role of the nurse in providing medical surgical nursing care. Students practice and apply skills and knowledge learned in the classroom and lab to the clinical environment.
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NURA 4000 - Community Health Nursing
Credits: 6
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the ANO or BRNCO, and successful completion of all prior courses in the established sequence
Description: This course provides the tools for critically analyzing the principles of health promotion and disease prevention of families, groups, and communities. Cultural diversity, ethics, legal, and political responsibility of the nurse is discussed. The leadership roles of advocate, change agent, collaborator, resource person, and teacher are emphasized. The learner applies theories and models from the fields of public health, education, and nursing to community health nursing. Focus is placed on community needs assessment, epidemiology, communicable disease, vulnerable populations, and health risks across the lifespan.
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NURA 4030 - Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family
Credits: 5
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the ANO and successful completion of all prior courses in the established sequence
Description: This course focuses on the management and provision of nursing care for childbearing women and their families. The nursing process is utilized to provide family centered nursing care for the patient and family across the health care continuum. Emphasis is placed on maternal/newborn health promotion, prevention concepts related to antepartal, intrapartal, postpartum, and neonatal life stages. Students examine the rationale and procedures for implementation of a variety of skills needed for the childbearing woman and newborn. Students have the opportunity to practice skills using simulation technology and in clinical practice settings. Students apply core knowledge and competencies in the provision of care of the childbearing patient and their family, including the role of educator.
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NURA 4110 - Medical Surgical Nursing Care II
Credits: 6
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the ANO and successful completion of all prior courses in the established sequence
Description: This course expands on the concepts introduced in Medical Surgical Nursing Care I. Focus is on utilization of core knowledge and core competencies related to the care of adults with intermediate and complex alterations in health. Critical thinking skills are used to apply the nursing process to patient centered care. This course further develops the role of the nurse in providing medical surgical nursing care. Students have the opportunity to practice skills using simulation technology and in clinical practice settings.
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NURA 4150 - Ethics and Professional Nursing Practice
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Admission into the ANO and successful completion of all prior courses in the established curriculum sequence or faculty permission
Description: The course prepares the professional nursing student to analyze ethical issues that emerge in the practice of nursing. This course introduces the student to ethical theories and principles as well as ethical decision making models applied to professional nursing. Students apply critical thinking concepts to applicable codes of ethics, ethical theories, principles, and rules in discussing the ethical dilemmas encountered in professional practice. Values and beliefs are examined in the context of ethical issues, role development, and application in health care.
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NURA 4200 - Child and Family Health Nursing
Credits: 5
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the ANO and the successful completion of all prior courses in the established sequence
Description: This theoretical and clinical course focuses on the application of the nursing process in the delivery of evidenced based nursing care to children and their families. Health promotion, illness, injury prevention, health teaching, and anticipatory guidance are emphasized. Developmentally appropriate care is integrated into the management of pediatric disorders and diseases. Students develop clinical skills using simulation technology and clinical practice environments.
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NURA 4300 - Leadership and Management in Professional Nursing Practice
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Admission into the ANO or BRNCO and successful completion of all prior courses in the established sequence
Description: This course is designed to assist the student in developing as a professional nurse by investigating leadership and management theories and principles. This course emphasizes management, leadership, organizational theories, policy, regulatory requirements, evidence based practice and business economics. Major emphasis is placed on accountability and communication.
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NURA 4850 - Nursing Senior Experience
Credits: 5
Prerequisite(s): NUR 4000 or faculty permission
Description: This course provides nursing students with the opportunity to synthesize program concepts and theories. The clinical component is designed to support the student’s learning needs. Students collaborate with faculty and the clinical preceptor to develop individual learning outcomes that relate to course objectives and program student learning outcomes.
University Requirement(s): Senior Experience
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Nursing, RN to BSN |
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NUR 3100 - RN to BSN Role Transition
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Admission to BRNCO
Description: This course facilitates transition to the role of the baccalaureate nurse. This course begins the exploration of the nursing program mission and philosophy with an emphasis on nursing theories, evidence-based practice, and regulatory aspects of the profession, professional behavior and individual accountability. This course integrates communication, critical thinking, and cultural humility in the context of baccalaureate nursing practice.
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NUR 3120 - Exemplary Professional Practice: RN to BSN Role Transition
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into the BRNCO program
Description: This course facilitates the transition to the role of the baccalaureate nurse, examining the nursing profession with a focus on nursing theories and philosophy, Quality and Safety Education for Nurses, professional development, and Forces of Magnetism. This course integrates communication, critical thinking, teamwork, and patient-centered care in the context of baccalaureate nursing practice.
Note: Course Revised June 28, 2021
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NUR 3150 - Introduction to Gerontology Nursing
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Admission to BRNCO
Description: This course emphasizes understanding the impact of individual and societal perceptions of aging and the aging process. Students examine cultural, legal, and environmental factors, and the diverse health status found in the older adult. Communication skills are developed as an essential feature of the care of the older adult in a variety of settings. The core knowledge concepts and role development of the professional nurse in caring for older adults are explored.
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NUR 3160 - Nursing Ethics and Professional Nursing Practice
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): NUR 3110
Description: The course prepares the professional nursing student to analyze ethical issues that emerge in the practice of nursing. The Magnet/Pathways to Excellence concept of Exemplary Practice and the QSEN competencies of Patient-Centered Care, Teamwork and Collaboration, and Evidence-Based Practice are explored as they relate to ethics and professional nursing. This course introduces the student to ethical theories and principles as well as ethical decision-making models applied to professional nursing. Students apply critical thinking concepts to applicable codes of ethics, ethical theories, principles, and rules in discussing the ethical dilemmas encountered in professional practice. Values and beliefs are examined in the context of ethical issues, role development, and application in health care.
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NUR 3300 - End of Life Care
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Admission to BRNCO
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): NUR 3100, NUR 3800
Description: This course emphasizes the understanding of the impact of individual and societal perceptions of death and dying. Students examine cultural, ethical, and legal factors concerning end of life care. Communication skills are developed as an essential feature of care in a variety of settings. The core knowledge concepts and role development of the professional nurse in caring for dying patients are explored.
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NUR 3400 - Evidence Based Practice Through Nursing Research
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): NUR 3160, NUR 3770, NUR 3810
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): NUR 4040
Description: This course introduces the student to the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) research process. The knowledge and competence needed to critique published research are explored. Students learn how to use research in support of their EBP. Course content aligns with the Magnet/Pathway to Excellence concepts including Empirical Outcomes, Exemplary Professional Practice, New Knowledge, Innovations, and Improvements, and QSEN Competencies of EBP and Patient-Centered Care. Ethical and legal considerations are also discussed. Qualitative and quantitative research processes are examined. Students complete a literature search using appropriate databases on a researchable problem and communicate findings. Emphasis is placed on the improvement of nursing practice through reading, using, and participating in research.
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NUR 3700 - Nursing Health Assessment
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Admission to BRNCO
Description: This course is designed for students to develop, practice, and demonstrate their health assessment competence. Utilizing the nursing process, the student collects and organizes data to obtain a complete health history and perform a physical examination. Students have an opportunity to practice interviewing skills and physical examination techniques. Emphasis is placed on the use of critical thinking, health promotion, and demonstration of a physical examination while caring for individuals throughout their lifespan.
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NUR 3770 - Nursing Care Coordination of Acute and Chronic Disease Management
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): NUR 3120
Description: This theory course builds on the student’s previous knowledge of physiological and psychosocial components of illness. Magnet/Pathway’s to Excellence concepts of Structural Empowerment and Exemplary Professional Practice and QSEN Competencies of Patient-Centered Care, Teamwork and Collaboration, and Evidence-Based Practice are integrated in the course to help clarify the role of the Care Coordinator of a baccalaureate-prepared nurse. Updates on genomics and genetics, pain management, the stress response, immune disorders, mental and behavioral health disorders, rehabilitative, and palliative, and end-of-life care are addressed. Nursing care coordination of acute and chronic disease concepts including pathophysiology, pharmacology, and physical assessment components are integrated with patient-centered, evidence-based disease management, and inter-professional collaboration to determine and provide safe, high quality, and cost-effective care.
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NUR 3800 - Advances in Clinical Practice
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Admission to BRNCO
Description: This course is designed to update students about evolving clinical issues and practice trends. Focus is on the role of the nurse in collecting and disseminating evidence to enhance evidence based practice. Core knowledge in pathophysiology, pharmacology, medical surgical nursing, pediatric nursing, obstetric nursing, psychiatric nursing, and community health nursing are explored. Specific course content reflects individual student nursing experiences and needs. Topics include patient safety and error reduction. The student is expected to access electronic information resources.
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NUR 3810 - Multicultural Care of Patients and Their Families
Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): NUR 3120
Description: This course will provide nursing and pre-nursing students with the tools necessary to understand how multicultural care has been and is now being provided to patients and their families. It will bring to light the discrepancies and biases to people of color in the healthcare world and examine what we can do about it for more equity today. This course would help decrease stereotype threats by showing students diversity and have them examine their own biases.
University Requirement(s): Multicultural
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