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FA18: INTRO TO MIDI/COMPUTER MUSIC: 9920
Introduction to MIDI and Computer Music is designed to teach both music majors and non-music majors the basics of the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) system, its software, and the instruments commonly used with desktop MIDI workstations, such as synthesizers and digital samplers. Course work includes a series of creative projects and several quizzes. This course is geared for those with little prior technical training. Prerequisites: a basic understanding of rhythmic notation, and some previous experience making music (playing an instrument, singing in a choir, writing songs, etc.). The course is normally offered in the fall and spring semesters and during the second 8-week summer session. It is 3 credit hours. Classes meet in room M373 in the Music Library, which holds enough equipment for each student to have hands-on experience during class.
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FA18: ELEMENTARY ARABIC I: 33947
Course Materials: 1. Aif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds (3rd edition) by Brustad, Al-Batal & Al-Tonsi. 2. Al-Kitaab fii Tacallum al- cArabiyya , Part I (3rd edition) by Brustad, Al-Batal & Al-Tonsi. Course Objectives: By the end of this semester, you will have reached the Novice High level of proficiency in Arabic based on the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2012. This means that you will be able to: Speaking: 1) Manage successfully a number of uncomplicated communicative tasks in straightforward social situations. 2) Handle conversation in a few predictable topics necessary for survival in the target-language culture such as basic personal information, a limited number of activities, preferences, and immediate needs. 3) Respond to simple, direct questions or requests for information. 4) Ask a few basic questions. Writing: 1) Meet limited, basic, practical writing needs using lists, short messages, postcards, and simple notes. 2) Express yourself in the context in which the language was learned by relying mainly on practiced material. 3) Focus on common elements of daily life. 4) Recombine learned vocabulary and structures to create simple sentences on very familiar topics. Listening: 1) Understand information from sentence-length speech, one utterance at a time, in basic personal and social contexts with contextual or extra-linguistic support (although comprehension may be very uneven) 2) Understand speech dealing with areas of practical need such as highly standardized messages, phrases, or instructions, if the vocabulary has been learned. Reading: 1) Understand, fully and with relative ease, key words and cognates as well as formulaic phrases across a range of highly contextualized texts. 2) Understand predicable language and messages such as those found on train schedules, roadmaps, and street signs. 3) Derive meaning from short, non-complex, texts that convey basic information with the help of contextual or extra-linguistic support.