MUS455Advanced Voice Mastering
2 credits
Advanced voice techniques, with increased demands on range, resonance, and breathing capacity extension.
Articulation and phonetic alphabet is emphasized. Text work in poetry and prose.
MUSC246Arab Music I
MUSC215Choral Singing II
1 credits
Choral singing closely following the course of history. Each year the students learn to interpret, in the context of Western choral singing of the Faculty, the corresponding repertory according to the current history course.
PSY214Developmental Psychology
3 credits | Pre-requisite: PSY201
The course has two segments given in two sequential phases: Childhood and Adolescence 1st segment: childhood allows students to become familiar with basic concepts and notions of childhood developmental psychology (stages, phases and developmental factors); understand the major theoretical approaches (maturational, behavioral, psychoanalytical, cognitive constructivism and psychosocial approaches); identify the main characteristics belonging to each developmental stage on the biological, intellectual, affective, sexual, social and moral level; 2nd segment: adolescence allows students to understand the adolescent phase in the developmental process, note each function belonging to this stage, pinpoint the process of selfconsolidation, the construction of the identity, achieving maturity as well as choices and decisionmaking processes.
FLM240History of American Cinema
3 credits
This course is designed to give students an understanding of the history of American cinema from its beginning in 1895 to the present time. It will focus on the silent cinema of D.W. Griffith, the Burlesque film of C. Chaplin and B. Keaton, the genre films of the studio era, the war and postwar noir film, the new Hollywood cinema of the 1960s, the films of the Movie Brats of the 1970s, and the postmodern cinema of the 1980s and on. Special attention will be given to the evolution of the art of the motion picture, including elements of camera, lighting, sound, editing, production design, and narrative structure and the technological evolution of the motion picture, including aspects of inventions and innovations such as color, widescreen, quality sound, and electronic imagery.
MUSC450History of the 19th Century Music
2 credits
This course explores the music of the Romantic era. 1 Characteristics of Romantic music: themes of Romanticism, individuality of style, expressive subjects, nationalism and exoticism, the use of timbers to obtain a variety of sensations and atmospheres, the use of chromatic harmony, contrasts in nuances etc. 2. Vocal music, program music, the Romantic Symphony, the brief forms and developed forms. 3. Romantic composers: Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Smetana, Dvorak, Brahms, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Mahler.
PHO235Introduction to Photography Story-telling
3 credits
Students will acquire techniques and tools to produce still images with sound tracks. Students will apply these techniques on a visual and audio project.
MUG305Music and Dance
2 credits
Attendance and participation are of primary importance for this class. We will work with a wide variety of techniques and styles, learn correct body alignment in basic positions, develop a kinesthetic awareness of his/her own physical abilities, develop a sense of musicality and rhythm.
We will learn dances from the following list: Waltz, Tango, Cha cha, Salsa, Cumbia, Merengue, Foxtrot, Country Line Dance, Rumba, Swing or Samba and other.
EMU405Psychology and Music
SDG201Solfeggio/Dictation I
2 credits
1st course
a Solfeggio parlati : Pozzoli: Primo corso du n°1 au n°31
b Solfeggio cantati: Pozzoli: Primo corso du n°1 au n°31.
c Dictation : Noël Gallon du n°1 au n°20. melodic intervals : 5th, 4th, octave, 3rd Maj and min, 2nd Maj and min.
SDG202Solfeggio/Dictation II
2 credits | Pre-requisite: SDG201
2nd course
a Solfeggio parlati : Pozzoli: Primo corso du n°32 au n°60.
b Solfeggio cantati: Pozzoli: Primo corso du n°32 au n°60.
c Dictation : Noël Gallon du n°21 au n°40. melodic intervals : Triton, 6th Maj and min, 7th Maj and min.
FLM344Theory aesthetics of films
3 credits
This course focuses on the various theoretical methodologies that have developed in film theory and esthetics and that have proven useful for the analysis of films and cinema, such as realism, genre and auteur, reflexivity, intertextuality, psychoanalysis, and feminism.