Advisors: Hafez Modirzadeh, Music; Jerry Duke, Dance

The minor in World Music and Dance provides educational resources for those students interested in global perspectives of music and dance for varying careers as well as for personal enrichment. The subject is

interdisciplinary and, in addition to music and dance, includes artistic, historical, geographical, political, humanistic, cultural and social aspects organized into a cohesive program. Students will be introduced to a variety of relevant disciplines, including ethnomusicology and dance ethnology.

Skills in understanding culturally diverse expressions of music and dance increase the graduate's career opportunities in a variety of ways. This minor offers an educational base for many culture-based areas study, including teaching, multi-media, theater and other arts, business and travel industries, health professions, bilingual and ethnic studies, social and cultural programming, and further research leading to graduate study. Creativity is a central focus of the minor.

---To provide a foundation for knowledge and inquiry into many cultural aspects of music and dance practiced by the world's peoples. This includes various socio-historical contexts of classical systems as well as European and American popular and folk traditions.

---To develop critical awareness, appreciation of, and participation in the processes of oral/aural tradition, improvisation, and culture concepts in relation to the individual and society.

---To encourage creative thinking in the design of cross-cultural as well as cross- disciplinary projects.

This program consists of 24 units. Each student's course of study may be individualized according to his/her particular goals. Interested students should see a designated faculty advisor for information, selection, sequencing of courses, as well as for written approval of transfer equivalents and course substitutions. Contact the appropriate faculty member or departmental office for faculty office hours.

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Core Courses --- 12 units:

(core courses may be taken concurrently)

MUS 505 Music of the World's Peoples (3) GE

DANC 203 Introduction to Dance Ethnology (2)

MUS 501 Music, The Listener's Art (3) GE

DANC 350 Dance Watching (3) GE

MUS/DANC 387 Gamelan ensemble (1) -- may be repeated as an elective

Electives--- 12 units:

A minimum of 3 units in Music and 3 units in Dance must be chosen, with a recommended additional 6 units of inter-departmental selections from other related colleges/departments, such as Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, Art, etc.

MUS 387 Gamelan Ensemble (1)

MUS 388 Jazz Combos (1): Afro-Cuban, Creative World, or Vocal Jazz

MUS 430 Improvisation (1)

MUS 530 Music of the Mid East, Far East, and Sub-Cont India (3) GE

MUS 531 Music of the Pacific Basin (3) GE

MUS 532 Music of Latin America (3) GE

MUS 506 Survey of Jazz (3) GE

MUS 511/512 The Roots of Rock (3), Rock Since the Mid-1960's (3) GE

DANC 160/161 Afro-Haitian Dance I/II (1 each) GE

DANC 168/169 Folk Dance I/II (1 unit each)

DANC 207 Dance in Cultural Context (2) GE: Capoiera, Flamenco, Kathak

DANC 234 Social and Ballroom Dances of the U.S. (2)

DANC 235 Folklore of European and American Dance (2)

DANC 236 Folklore of Afro-Haitian Dance (2) GE

DANC 415 Dance in Religion (3) GE

DANC/BLS 617 Black Dance Experience (3) GE

DANC 657 Dance Ethnology (3) GE

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