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MUJS 3400 Learning Outcomes version 1.0 (Fink taxonomy (Foundational…
MUJS 3400 Learning Outcomes
version 1.0
2 Develop a critical approach to listening to jazz
Activities
Listen to audio tracks with instructor's annotations
For text sources that provide detailed comments on audio tracks, listen to the tracks described
Non-graded listening quizzes on Blackboard
Assessments
Listening questions on Blackboard quizzes and tests
Listening/Life Story Assignment
Second-level-outcomes
1a Identify the instruments heard
1b Recognize structural elements
1c Interpret audible features as characteristic of the style of a musician or band
1d Interpret audible features as characteristic of a style period or substyle
1 Construct a factual narrative of jazz history
Activities
Read texts about individual jazz musicians, bands, and performance venues
Actively watch video documentaries on jazz
history topics
Read texts and watch documentaries that provide historical context for events in jazz history
Read texts that present the standard narrative of jazz history
Assessments
Listening/life story assignment
Team Project: Documentary Video
Quizzes and tests on Blackboard
Second-level outcomes
1a Recall facts about significant musicians and bands
1b Locate musical developments in a chronology
1c Integrate jazz history knowledge with U.S. & world history knowledge
3 Construct and critique research-based arguments about jazz
Second-level outcomes
3b Criticise the support for arguments about jazz history
3c Make and defend your own argument about a topic in jazz history
3a Distinguish facts from arguments or interpretations about jazz history
Activities
Practice identifying arguments in video documentaries
With each reading, practice identifying arguments and their support
With each reading, notice how scholars use sources to support arguments
Assessments
Quiz and test questions that ask you to distinguish facts from arguments/interpretations
Listening/Life story assignment in which you advance an argument
Team project video documentary that advances an argument
4 Discover connections between jazz and U.S. and world culture
Second-level outcomes
4a Employ current scholarship to have a clear sense of elements of jazz that derive from African, European, and Caribbean ways of making music
4b Interpret cultural references in song lyrics and titles
4c Identify ways in which jazz performed outside the U.S. draws on local musical styles and cultural meanings
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Activities
As we read and listen, be aware of the cultural context, within which the music is made meaningful to specific groups of people
Recognize that while jazz is thought of as uniquely "American," its source styles derive from other countries and cultures, and it is has been practiced throughout most of its history in other countries besides the U.S.
Connect the traditional jazz metaphor of "telling a story" to stories that communicate cultural identity
Assessments
Quiz and test questions will include questions on cultural connections
Listening/Life story assignment should place the recording in a cultural context
The team project video should place the topic in a cultural context
5 Investigate ways in which experiences of jazz musicians are shaped by "race" and gender
Second-level outcomes
5a Recognize the identity of performers, audiences, and authors
5d Identify the subject position of authors who write about jazz in various periods
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5b Recognize instances in which the effects of segregation in U.S. society have effects in the music industry that jazz is part of
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5c Relate the experiences of women in jazz to gender roles and stereotypes in U.S. society
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Activities
As we study jazz chronologically, be aware of legislation and court cases that affect racial segregation and how they affect the lives of musicians
As we read texts from various periods of jazz history, be alert for the way perceived differences between "races" are mapped onto musical style distinctions
As we read texts from various periods of jazz history, be alert for instances of mapping gender-based terms onto musical performance styles
Recognize the constructed nature of whiteness in U.S. society and the role played by jazz performance and reception in that construction
Assessments
Listening/Life story assignment should include attention to this topic
Quiz and test questions will address this topic
Fink taxonomy
Foundational knowledge
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Application
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Integration
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Human dimension
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Caring
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Learning how to learn
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