English Course> Atlanta Christian College
ENG 373 Modern Grammar (3)
A thorough analysis of sentence-level grammar of English with emphasis on structure and function for
rhetorical purposes. Prerequisite: ENG 102.
Business Course> Atlanta Christian College
BUS 202 Business Statistics (3)
An introductory study of the application of statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis
in business decision making. Emphasis is placed on utilizing statistical methods and commonly-used
business software to analyze and interpret data unique to traditional business applications. Prerequisite:
MTH course. (1st)
Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University
Humanities (HUMN) 423
Advanced Studies in Popular Music (Revision 1)
Delivery mode: Individualized study.
Credits: 3 - Reading course - Humanities
Prerequisite: At least one of the following: HUMN 285 or MUSI 285; HUMN 286 or MUSI 286; HUMN 420 or MUSI 420; HUMN 421 or MUSI 421. Students who have not completed any of these courses but who have studied the history of popular music at another university or college, should contact the course professor to obtain permission to take the course.
Precluded course: HUMN 423 is a cross-listed course—
a course listed under two different disciplines—with
MUSI 423. HUMN 423 may not be taken for credit by students who have obtained credit for MUSI 423 and/or HUMN 422.
Centre: Centre for Global and Social Analysis
HUMN 423 is not available for challenge.
Overview
This course is intended to allow students who have completed HUMN 285, HUMN 286, and HUMN 421 to consolidate, expand, and deepen their knowledge of the history of Anglo-American popular music, and to examine some of the theoretical and pedagogical issues that arise in the academic study of popular music. It is also intended to be a resource guide for educators who plan to use recorded popular music as part of a classroom teaching strategy.
HUMN 423 is designed as a guided independent study course, allowing students to choose topics within the various genres of popular music that they wish to explore in depth. Students are expected to make extensive use of library materials for both reading and written assignments.
Outline
Humanities 423: Studies in Popular Music is divided into four units:
Unit 1: Towards a Historical Framework
Unit 2: Towards an Analytic Framework
Unit 3: Independent Study Project
Unit 4: Research Essay
The first half of the course (Units 1 and 2) is based upon Richard Middleton’s book, Studying Popular Music. The second half of the course consists of an independent study project culminating in a research essay.
Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University
Humanities (HUMN) 421
The Folk Music Revival I: Before 1945 (Revision 1)
Delivery mode: Individualized study.
Credits: 3 - Reading course - Humanities
Prerequisite: None. Students are strongly advised to take an introductory course in popular music before registering in this course.
Precluded course: HUMN 421 is a cross-listed course—a course listed under 2 different disciplines—with MUSI 421. HUMN 421 may not be taken for credit by students who have obtained credit for MUSI 421.
Centre: Centre for Global and Social Analysis
HUMN 421 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Overview
HUMN 421 is a three-credit, senior-level reading course designed for students who intend to complete a BA concentration in Humanities or a BA major in History. The course examines the history of folksong collecting in Britain and the United States from 1650 to 1945, and analyses the Folk Music Revival from the 1880s to World War II. Questions and issues explored in this course include:
the pioneer song collectors from D’Urfey to Chappell
the renewed interest in folk ballads, and the work of Francis Child
the birth of the Folk Song Society, and the beginnings of the Folk Song Revival
the views and achievements of Cecil Sharp
the development of the English Folk Song Revival in the decade before the First World War
the development of folk music in Britain and America between the wars
the role of nationalist and anti-modernist ideology in the Revival
the problems of authenticity and class bias in the work of the major collectors.
Students are given the opportunity to explore the careers and contributions of such leading figures as Francis Child, Lucy Broadwood, Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and Alfred Williams.
Outline
Humanities 421: The Folk Music Revival is divided into six units:
Unit 1: The Pioneer Collectors
Unit 2: The Ballad Revival
Unit 3: Cecil Sharp
Unit 4: Collectors, Composers, and Phonographs
Unit 5: Between the Wars: the British Isles
Unit 6: Between the Wars: the United States
Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University
Humanities (HUMN) 420
Anglo-American Popular Music Traditions (Revision 2)
Opened in Moodle March 27, 2008
Delivery mode: Individualized study.
Credits: 3 - Reading course - Humanities
Prerequisite: None. HUMN 285 or MUSI 285 and HUMN 286 or MUSI 286 are strongly recommended.
Precluded course: HUMN 420 is a cross-listed course—a course listed under 2 different disciplines—with MUSI 420. HUMN 420 may not be taken for credit by students who have obtained credit for HUMN 422 or MUSI 420.
Centre: Centre for Global and Social Analysis
HUMN 420 has a Challenge for Credit option
Overview
Anglo-American Popular Music Traditions examines the genesis and development of various folk and other popular music traditions in Britain and North America before World War I. Among the topics studied are English and Scottish ballads and folk lyrics, broadside ballads, industrial song, music hall, the transformation of Anglo-Celtic folk music when transplanted to North America, indigenous American folk music, Afro-American musical forms, spirituals, early blues, minstrel shows, and ragtime.
This course is designed for students in the last year of their degree program. It should normally be attempted only by students who have already completed six credits in the history of popular music (such as HUMN 285 and HUMN 286 or their equivalent at another university). It does not require more than a basic knowledge of music theory and terminology, but it is not an introductory course and it does demand a high level of reading and writing skills. Students are expected to make extensive use of library materials to complete the reading and written assignments.
Outline
Anglo-American Popular Music Traditions is divided into the following twelve units:
Unit 1: Old High Cultures? The Origins and Styles of Traditional Music
Unit 2: British Folk Music Traditions I: Ceremonial Songs and Narrative Ballads
Unit 3: British Folk Music Traditions II: Lyrical Songs and Later Ballads
Unit 4: North America and the Debt to Africa
Unit 5: Forms of Popular Music in America, 1620-1880
Unit 6: Parlour Music
Unit 7: Concert Music and the Music-Hall in Victorian England
Unit 8: Community Music in Victorian England
Unit 9: Politics, Patriotism, Social Comment, and Industrial Song
Unit 10: Africa and the Origins of the Blues
Unit 11: The Influence of the Blues in Popular Music
Unit 12: Ragtime
Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University
Humanities (HUMN) 320
Rome and Early Christianity I (Revision 2)
Delivery mode: Individualized study.
Credits: 3 - Humanities
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: HUMN 249 or HUMN 350 (HUMN 320 may not be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for HUMN 249 or HUMN 350.)
Centre: Centre for Global and Social Analysis
HUMN 320 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Overview
What were the greatest achievements of Roman civilization? How did its best poets and political philosophers respond to the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire? What was early Christianity really like, and how did it evolve in the century after the crucifixion? What roles did St. Paul and the authors of the Synoptic Gospels play in creating modern Christian theology? These are some of the topics addressed in HUMN 320.
The course consists of two parts. The first part (Units 1 to 3) deals with the history and culture of Rome, and concentrates especially on the period of transition from the Republic to the Principate This was a time when Rome was trying to adjust to its conquests, to far-reaching social and economic changes and to the influx of new ideas, and was trying to restore its roots and to refurbish its myths and traditions. This was an age of great Roman writers, including Cicero, Lucretius, Livy, and Vergil, all of whom are studied in the course. It was also the time of the birth of Christianity, and the second part of the course (Units 4 and 5) focuses on the origins and early development of Christianity under the Principate and the early Empire.
Special attention is paid to the historical evidence for the life of Jesus of Nazareth and the beginnings of the Church, to the seminal theology and influence of Paul of Tarsus, and to the controversial issues involved in dating and interpreting the three Synoptic Gospels. Although the course employs a historical perspective, its overall approach is interdisciplinary, drawing upon the insights of classical scholars, literary critics, theologians, and historians of the ancient world.
Outline
Unit 1: The Romans and the Roman Republic
Unit 2: Cicero, Lucretius, and Roman Religion
Unit 3: The Early Empire and Roman Literature
Unit 4: The Beginnings of Christianity
Unit 5: The Synoptic Gospels
Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University
Humanities (HUMN) 309
Ancient Greece (Revision 1)
Delivery mode: Individualized study.
Credits: 3 - Humanities
Prerequisite: None. HUMN 201 is strongly recommended.
Precluded course: HUMN 309 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for HUMN 248.
Centre: Centre for Global and Social Analysis
HUMN 309 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Overview
HUMN 309 provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and culture of Ancient Greece from the archaic period through the Persian and Peloponnesian wars to the Hellenistic era. The course utilizes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing upon the work of historians, classical scholars, political scientists, philosophers, and literary critics.
A balance is maintained between surveying the political and social history of the period and studying the cultural and intellectual achievements of ancient Greek civilization. Thus students trace the emergence and evolution of Greek kingdoms and city-states and the rise and fall of the Athenian empire, but they also explore the best of Greek tragic and comic drama, poetry, philosophy, historiography and political theory. Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Arrian, and Polybius are among the Greek and Hellenistic authors whose writings are examined (in translation) in the course.
Outline
HUMN 309 is divided into thirteen units:
Unit 1: The Ancient Aegean
Unit 2: Myth, Religion and the Epic
Unit 3: Herodotus and the Persian Wars
Unit 4: Imperial Athens: Politics, Society and Culture
Unit 5: Thucydides, the Second Peloponnesian War and the Decline of Athens
Unit 6: Tragic Drama
Unit 7: Lyric Poetry and Attic Comedy
Unit 8: Early Greek Philosophy: The Presocratics and Socrates
Unit 9: Plato
Unit 10: Aristotle
Unit 11: Alexander’s Empire and the Hellenistic Kingdoms
Unit 12: Hellenistic Culture: Literature, Historiography and Art
Unit 13: Hellenistic Philosophy, Religion and Science
Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University
Humanities (HUMN) 286
History of Popular Music II: Be-bop to Beatles, 1940-1970 (Revision 1)
Delivery mode: Individualized study with video component*.
*Overseas students, please contact the University Library before registering in a course that has an audio/visual component.
Credits: 3 - Humanities
Prerequisite: None. HUMN 285 or MUSI 285 is strongly recommended.
Precluded course: HUMN 286 is a cross-listed course—a course listed under 2 different disciplines—with MUSI 286. HUMN 286 may not be taken for credit by students who have obtained credit for MUSI 286.
Centre: Centre for Global and Social Analysis
HUMN 286 is not available for challenge.
Overview
HUMN 286 is the second of two, three-credit courses that survey the history of North American popular music from the ragtime era to the Woodstock festival at the end of the 1960s. This course deals with the three decades following the outbreak of World War II and takes the story of popular music from the birth of rhythm and blues and modern jazz through the rock and roll years to the sounds of the counter-culture in the 1960s. The stylistic evolution of such musical forms as folk, blues, jazz, country and western, and rock is examined, and an attempt is made to place these different kinds of popular music in their appropriate social and historical contexts.
Outline
Unit 1: Country and Western to 1960
Unit 2: The Folk Revival to 1958
Unit 3: Big Bands and Mainstream Jazz
Unit 4: Modern Jazz: Be-bop and Cool
Unit 5: The Blues: Country and Urban to 1960
Unit 6: Rhythm and Blues and Rock’n'Roll
Unit 7: Modern Jazz: Funk and New Wave
Unit 8: The Folk Revival, 1958-1965
Unit 9: Blues, Soul, and Rock in the Early ’60s
Unit 10: Music of the Counter-Culture: Folk and Rock in the Late ’60s
Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University
Humanities (HUMN) 285
History of Popular Music I: Blues to Big Bands, 1900-1940 (Revision 1)
Delivery mode: Individualized study with video component*.
Overseas students, please contact the University Library before registering in a course that has an audio/visual component.
Credits: 3 - Humanities
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: HUMN 285 is a cross-listed course—a course listed under 2 different disciplines—with MUSI 285. HUMN 285 may not be taken for credit by students who have obtained credit for MUSI 285.
Centre: Centre for Global and Social Analysis
HUMN 285 is not available for challenge.
Overview
HUMN 285 and HUMN 286 survey the history of North American popular music from the ragtime era to the end of the 1960s. This course concentrates on the period between the two world wars and takes the story of popular music up to the swing era of the late 1930s. HUMN 285 examines the evolution of musical styles and places such musical forms as blues, jazz, and hillbilly music in their social contexts.
Outline
Unit 1: The Sources of Blues and Jazz
Unit 2: The Folk Tradition and Hillbilly Music
Unit 3: Jimmie Rodgers
Unit 4: Country Blues
Unit 5: Classic Blues, Jug-Bands, and Barrelhouse Piano
Unit 6: Jazz in the Twenties
Unit 7: Bix Beiderbecke
Unit 8: Country and Western in the Thirties
Unit 9: Urban Blues in the Thirties
Unit 10: Jazz in the Swing Era
Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University
Humanities (HUMN) 202
Western Culture II: Since the Reformation (Revision 2)
Delivery mode: Individualized study or grouped study with video component*.
*Overseas students, please contact the University Library before registering in a course that has an audio/visual component.
Credits: 3 - Humanities
Prerequisite: None. HUMN 201 or HIST 201 is strongly recommended. This course is intended as a foundation course for Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of General Studies students, and is designed for learners with little or no previous university experience. It provides a good starting place for new students intending to study history, literature, philosophy, or other aspects of the humanities.
Precluded course: HUMN 202 is a cross-listed course—a course listed under 2 different disciplines—with HIST 202. HUMN 202 may not be taken for credit by students who have obtained credit for HIST 202.
Centre: Centre for Global and Social Analysis
HUMN 202 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Overview
How did the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution change the intellectual and cultural climate of Europe? In what ways was Baroque Classicism a cultural expression of the political Age of Absolutism? What were the principal qualities and achievements of the Enlightenment? Was there a causal relationship between the American and French Revolutions and the Romantic Movement? What new forms of middle class and working-class culture resulted from the growth of industrial society in the nineteenth century? Which leading artists and intellectuals made fundamental attacks on the values and cultural forms of industrial society, and what were their most valuable contributions? How did Western cultural and intellectual life change as a result of the two world wars? What have been the most important artistic and scientific developments in the post-industrial age?
These are some of the questions examined in HUMN 202. It is the second of two, three-credit courses that together survey the development of Western civilization from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to the complicated and sophisticated world of the post-industrial era. Although the course employs a historical framework, its overall approach is interdisciplinary, drawing upon the insights of artists, musicians, theologians, philosophers, and literary critics as well as social and political historians.
Outline
Western Culture II: Since the Reformation is divided into eight units:
Unit 1: The Reformation and Mannerism, 1500-1603
Unit 2: The Baroque Era and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1730
Unit 3: The Enlightenment, 1700-1789
Unit 4: Revolutions and Romanticism, 1760-1830
Unit 5: Romanticism, Nationalism and Realism, 1830-1870
Unit 6: Early Modernism, 1870-1914
Unit 7: Modernism and the Era of Discontent, 1905-1945
Unit 8: Late Modernism and Post-Modernism, 1945 to the Present