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 LD 4202 Audio and Video Techniques for Fieldworkers
(2 undergraduate hr) (Fall Session 1)
NEW After completing this course, students will be
able to demonstrate their ability to record, edit, archive and produce audio
and video recordings of linguistic and cultural data, including artistic performances
that will support their analysis, documentation, and publishing. They will demonstrate
knowledge of basic principles of analog-to-digital conversion, and will be able
to choose the appropriate equipment and settings to use for a given recording
situation. Students will complete two recording projects to apply these principles.
LD 5339 Research Methods for Performing Arts
(3 sem hrs) (Fall Session 2-3)
(Formerly AL 5384 Field of Ethnomusicology) After completing this course,
students will be able to describe and interact with the people, structures, dynamics,
meanings, and processes involved in creativity and performance in an ethnolinguistically
defined community. They will be able to plan and perform research tasks using
methodologies such as interview, observation, participation, note taking, and
audio- and video-recording, in ways that will help answer questions such as the
following: What kinds of performing arts exist locally, and which might be most
appropriate to carry Christian messages? What are the factors that might affect
the acceptance or rejection of indigenous-style performances by community members?
LD 5384 Expressive Form Analysis
(3 sem hrs) (Fall Sessions 2-3)
NEW After completing this course, students will be
able to perform high level structural analysis of music, storytelling, drama,
dance, and other art forms, in the service of invigorating language development
efforts. Instructional methodologies include participation in these arts.
LD 5380
Generative Analysis of Non-Western Music
(3 sem hrs) (Fall
Session 4)
(Formerly AL 5385 Analysis of Non-Western Music) After
completing this course, students will demonstrate progress in becoming
bimusical. Building on the seminal work of Vida Chenoweth in ethnomusicology,
they will be able to do computer-aided transcription and analysis
of a non-Western music system and be able to compose new melodies
in that system. They will be able to facilitate the composition
of Christian music in non-Western music systems without using existing
melodies. Prerequisite: B.A. in Music, or permission of instructor
LD 5382 Applied Arts
(3 sem hrs) (Fall Session 4)
(Formerly AL 5386 Applied Ethnomusicology) After completing this course,
students will be able to work with a local community to catalyze the creation
of new vernacular Scripture-based and community-development messages in indigenous
forms of music, drama, dance, storytelling and other performing arts. They will
be able to encourage sustainability by helping integrate these expressions into
local institutions; design interactive, dialogue-based learning activities for
art-discovery and art-creation workshops; mentor local artists; promote the dissemination
of indigenous Christian performances; and encourage the positive self-identity
that these forms may engender. |
