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2017-2018 Academic Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MUS 201-01 - Topics in Music & Culture: Music, Mind and Brain

4 credits (Fall)
This course explores the rapidly growing field of music perception and cognition. In light of the advances in psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and music theory, we will examine scientific foundations of how humans perceive, understand, and create music. Topics to be covered include evolutionary origins of music, music and emotion, musical learning and development, music and the brain, the perception and cognition of music structure, and the psychological and neurological processes involved in composition, improvisation, and performance.

Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Cha