2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Apr 29, 2024  
2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Military Science

  
  • MLSC 2041 - Basic Military Skills Lab II


    1 Semester Hours
    Students demonstrate knowledge of subjects taught in lecture through hands-on experience Emphasis is on developing leader; military skills,; enhancing military knowledge Students participate in physical fitness activities a minimum of two hours each week to learn the fundamentals of exercise,; gain aerobic; muscular fitness

    Prerequisites: MLSC 2021 
    Corequisite: MLSC 2021 
  
  • MLSC 4800 - Directed Study


    4 Semester Hours
    Course is offered when a student needs a special subject covered to meet a professional requirement or wants to work with an instructor to look more deeply into a particular aspect of a discipline. Instructor consent required.


Marketing

  
  • MRKT HI - Honors in Marketing


    4 Semester Hours
  
  • MRKT HII - Honors in Marketing


    4 Semester Hours
  
  • MRKT 3000 - Principles of Marketing


    4 Semester Hours
    Consideration of pricing, promoting,; distributing products; services to satisfy buyers’ needs in an ethical; socially responsible manner, with particular attention to the impact of demographic, economic, social, environmental, political, legal, regulatory,; technological forces on domestic; global organizational marketing systems Junior standing is required to register for this class

  
  • MRKT 3850 - Internship


    4 Semester Hours
    An internship in which a student works under the supervision of the department.

  
  • MRKT 4000 - Brand Management


    4 Semester Hours
    Brand Management examines the ways brands acquire and maintain economic and non-economic value; Explores the origins, power, theory, meaning, relevance and practice of brands, brand development, brand  metrics and brand management; Encourages  integration, learning, and creative thinking through lecture, examples, descriptive cases, and discussion.

    Prerequisites: MRKT 3000  
  
  • MRKT 4010 - Consumer Behavior


    4 Semester Hours
    This course focuses on the process involved when individuals or groups select, purchase, use, or dispose of products, services, ideas, or experiences to satisfy needs; desires To consider the scope of consumer behavior, the course emphasizes the complex; interdependent relationships between marketing stimuli; the day-to-day lives of consumers

    Prerequisites: MRKT 3000 
  
  • MRKT 4020 - Marketing Research


    4 Semester Hours
    The course imparts an understanding of; the skills to apply the methods; techniques required for gathering, recording,; analyzing information for making marketing decisions

    Prerequisites: MRKT 3000 
  
  • MRKT 4030 - Brand Management


    4 Semester Hours
    Brand Management examines the ways brands acquire; maintain economic; non-economic value The class explores the origins, power, theory, meaning, relevance,; practice of brands, as well as brand development, brand metrics,; brand management It encourages integration, learning,; creative thinking through lecture, examples, descriptive cases,; discussion

    Prerequisites: MRKT 3000 
  
  • MRKT 4750 - Special Topics


    4 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • MRKT 4753 - Special Topics


    3 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • MRKT 4800 - Directed Study


    4 Semester Hours
    Course is offered when a student needs a special subject covered to meet a professional requirement or wants to work with an instructor to look more deeply into a particular aspect of a discipline. Instructor consent required.

  
  • MRKT 4801 - Directed Study


    1 Semester Hours
    Course is offered when a student needs a special subject covered to meet a professional requirement or wants to work with an instructor to look more deeply into a particular aspect of a discipline. Instructor consent required.

  
  • MRKT 4802 - Directed Study


    2 Semester Hours
    Course is offered when a student needs a special subject covered to meet a professional requirement or wants to work with an instructor to look more deeply into a particular aspect of a discipline. Instructor consent required.

  
  • MRKT 4803 - Directed Study


    3 Semester Hours
    Course is offered when a student needs a special subject covered to meet a professional requirement or wants to work with an instructor to look more deeply into a particular aspect of a discipline. Instructor consent required.

  
  • MRKT 4850 - Internship


    4 Semester Hours
    An internship in which a student works under the supervision of the department.

  
  • MRKT 4851 - Internship


    1 Semester Hours
    An internship in which a student works under the supervision of the department.

  
  • MRKT 4852 - Internship


    2 Semester Hours
    An internship in which a student works under the supervision of the department.

  
  • MRKT 4853 - Internship


    3 Semester Hours
    An internship in which a student works under the supervision of the department.


Music

  
  • MUSC HI - Honors in Music


    4 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC HII - Honors in Music II


    4 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC 15C1 - Chamber Singers


    1 Semester Hours
    Gives students opportunities to perform significant works for small choral ensembles Chamber Singers membership is contingent upon membership in Singers,; students are expected to enroll both semester to recieve academic credit period Chamber Singers is the touring choir of the College

  
  • MUSC 15S1 - Singers


    1 Semester Hours
    Students perform important choral works from all major style periods, often with orchestra A cappella; accompanied presentations are balanced

  
  • MUSC 1000 - Integrative Music Theory I


    4 Semester Hours
    This is the introductory course in a three-semester music theory sequence designed to reinforce the basic skills needed for a comprehensive understanding of tonal music Musicality is developed through an integration of skillsets, including theory; analysis, aural skills, historical contextualization, modeling, performance,; composition In this semester, we introduce; heavily workshop the fundamentals of music The ukulele will be used throughout the class in order to transform the theory into practice; to further develop our aural understanding; creativity

  
  • MUSC 1100 - The Beatles


    4 Semester Hours
    This course will examine the music of the Beatles in three ways: as emblematic of the changing social, cultural,; political climate of the 1960s; as a model of musical transformation by detailing the musical; technological trajectories within the group’s lifetime;; as a source of great songs which can be examined for their intrinsic values

  
  • MUSC 1110 - The Literate Tradition: a Survey ofýWestern Art Music


    4 Semester Hours
    A listening tour of the high points of Western “classical” art music, from Hildegard’s antiphons to the cutting-edge innovations of the past century

  
  • MUSC 1501 - Ensemble Instrumental Or Voice


    1 Semester Hours
    Gives students opportunities to perform significant works for small ensembles Vocal; instrumental opportunities are offered according to student needs

  
  • MUSC 1511 - Applied Music


    1 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC 1512 - Applied Music


    2 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC 1521 - Applied Music


    1 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC 1522 - Applied Music


    2 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC 1531 - Piano Class I


    1 Semester Hours
    A study of the rudiments of playing the piano designed for non-piano concentrators; other music students who have had no previous piano study Competency in reading keyboard music, scales; arpeggios, harmonization of short melodies, accompanying, transposition, choral score reading, ensemble,; solo repertoire are stressed

  
  • MUSC 1541 - Piano Class II


    1 Semester Hours
    A continuation of study began in MUSC 1531 

    Prerequisites: MUSC 1531  
  
  • MUSC 1750 - Special Topics


    4 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • MUSC 2000 - Integrative Music Theory II


    4 Semester Hours
    This course is the second in a three-semester music theory sequence designed to reinforce the basic skills needed for a comprehesive understanding of tonal music Musicality is developed through an integration of skillsets, including theory; analysis, aural skills, historical contextualization, modeling, performance,; composition The topics covered this semester include counterpoint, melodic development, musical density, four-voice writing,; harmonic function

    Prerequisites: MUSC 1000 
  
  • MUSC 2010 - Integrative Music Theory III


    4 Semester Hours
    This is the final course in a three-semester music theory sequence designed to reinforce the basic skills needed for a comprehensive understanding of tonal music Musicality is developed through an integration of skillsets, including theory; analysis, aural skills, historical conceptualization, modeling, performance,; composition The topics covered include sequences, modulation, chromaticism; the extensions of tonality,; then take a step back to explore the application of these concepts within larger forms; structures

    Prerequisites: MUSC 2000 
  
  • MUSC 2100 - History of Jazz


    4 Semester Hours
    A survey course that charts the stylistic evolution of jazz, from its humble beginnings to its status as a respected art form The course will investigate the early roots of jazz, the importance of the art of improvisation,; recent trends The social; cultural contexts surrounding the evolution of jazz styles will also be studied

  
  • MUSC 2110 - Beethoven


    4 Semester Hours
    An in-depth study of selected works of Beethoven; assessment of his influence on composers who followed him The course will incorporate readings on his life; personal struggles to understand Beethoven the man

  
  • MUSC 2120 - The Age of Enlightment: Mozart


    4 Semester Hours
    This course explores the effects of Enlightenment; its influence on the composers of the late 18th,; will include readings from the 18th-century philosophers; explore a variety of genres, which reflect this thought Specific studies will involve the analysis of individual works including one selected opera, an instrumental string quartet,; a symphony, with special focus on the works of Mozart

  
  • MUSC 2130 - Women and Music


    4 Semester Hours
    Explores contributions of women to the art of music with special emphasis on women composers; performers beginning with Hildegaard von Bingen in the Middle Ages; concluding with contemporary composers; performers

  
  • MUSC 2140 - World Music: Globalization in Sound


    4 Semester Hours
    An investigation of selected music cultures from around the world, with the goal of understanding ‘globalization’ as it applies to music, specifically the musical processes through which traditional musics are co-opted; transformed for worldwide commercial consumption

  
  • MUSC 2160 - Protest & Propaganda:The Power of Music


    4 Semester Hours
    An investigation into the ways music has been used to persuade, inspire,; mobilize With a primary focus on American protest music since the 1930’s, this course will also examine how music has been a tool for the propagation of abhorrent ideas, both in the US; around the world

  
  • MUSC 2180 - The Other China: the History, Arts, andýCuture of Taiwan


    4 Semester Hours
    This course will connect you to culture; a contradiction: a ‘country’ that is not recognized by the UN as a country, an island that has produced prosperity; creativity disproportionate to its size,; an important place in the context of the growing might of mainland China, its neighbor 90 miles away Taiwan’s human history stretches back to prehistoric times The island has been inhabited by Austronesian aborigines, the Dutch, the Spanish, the British,; Han Chinese since the Qing Dynasty Taiwan was a Japanese colony for fifty years,; become the Republic of China while under martial law by Chiang Kai-Shek’s Nationalist Party from 1949 to 1984 The shadow of the 1947 White Terror still hangs over the political history of Taiwan, when more than 30,000 people were massacred by the Nationalist government Since 1984 Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with two main rival political parties, the Nationalist Party (KMT, or Guomindang); the newer Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) The primary language of Taiwan Mandarin Chinese, but Taiwanese Hokkien (Fujianese); Hakka are also spoken widely, especially in South Taiwan Taiwan’s challenges with the assimilation of native peoples parallel our own in the US, with aborigines often living in high mountain villages outside the reach of urban prosperity Taiwan offers the chance to engage in political dialog with citizens eager to express their views,; large (peaceful) political demonstrations are common Taiwan is set to legalize gay marriage, the first of any country in Asia Taiwan is widely viewed as the most progressive of the East Asian countries In the arts, Taiwan has an outsize presence on the world stage Traditional Chinese music; Beijing Opera thrive alongside Western classical music Taiwan is a major stop on the international concert circuit,; the Chi Mei Foundation in Taichung has one of the world’s important collection of 17th; 18th-century Italian string instruments Taiwan’s New Wave Cinema movement has spawned acclaimed directors like Tsai Ming-Liang, Edward Yang,; Ang Lee (“Sense; Sensibility,” “Brokeback Mountain,”; “Life of Pi,” which was filmed completely in Taiwan) The world’s greatest collection of Chinese art resides in Taipei at the National Palace Museum, thanks to the Nationalist “theft” (or rescue, depending on your perspective) of 696,000 art; historical objects from the National Palace in Beijing in 1933 The contemporary art scene in Taiwan is vital; thriving, as is the contemporary music; club scene In our short time there, we will immerse ourselves as much as possible in Taiwanese/Chinese culture, both ancient; contemporary

  
  • MUSC 2511 - Applied Music


    1 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC 2512 - Applied Music


    2 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC 2521 - Applied Music


    1 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC 2522 - Applied Music


    2 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC 2531 - Piano Class III


    1 Semester Hours
    A second-year continuation of the studies initiated in MUSC 1531  and MUSC 1541  

    Prerequisites: MUSC 1541  
  
  • MUSC 2541 - Piano Class IV


    1 Semester Hours
    A continuation of study begun in MUSC 2531  Following the completion of these courses, one should be prepared to take the piano proficiency required of all music majors

    Prerequisites: MUSC 2531  
  
  • MUSC 2750 - Special Topics


    4 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • MUSC 2751 - Special Topics


    1 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • MUSC 2752 - Special Topics


    2 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • MUSC 2760 - Pickpockets, Prostitutes, and Politician


    4 Semester Hours
    Pickpockets, Prostitutes,; Politicians: The Many Voices of Musical Theater From John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, this course will explore the history of musical theater as a vehicle for societal change Special emphasis will be placed on studying the role of music; how, through the art of composition, music adds power to the message

  
  • MUSC 2800 - Directed Study


    4 Semester Hours
    Course is offered when a student needs a special subject covered to meet a professional requirement or wants to work with an instructor to look more deeply into a particular aspect of a discipline. Instructor consent required.

  
  • MUSC 3000 - Music Composition


    4 Semester Hours
    This course investigates the presentation, development,; relatedness of musical ideas through the critical analysis of masterworks; the creative work through music composition Student-written compositions; performances are an integral part of the study,; will further develop musical imagination; the necessary skills to communicate through musical thought; ideas

    Prerequisites: MUSC 2010 
  
  • MUSC 3010 - Analyzing Music History: the Study ofýForm


    4 Semester Hours
    A study of form in Western art music since the Middle Ages This course builds on MUSC 1110, focusing on selected works from the viewpoint of composers’ myriad solutions to the problems of form in musical expression

    Prerequisites: MUSC 2010 
  
  • MUSC 3012 - Counterpoint


    2 Semester Hours
    This course probes 18th-century polyphony Strict species counterpoint; period contrapuntal forms such as invention; fugue are studied Drill; practice culminate in student contrapuntal compositions

    Prerequisites: MUSC 3000 
  
  • MUSC 3140 - History of Opera


    4 Semester Hours
    This course is a critical; analytic survey of the history; stylistic elements of opera from its beginnings in the 17th cnetury to selected recent operas with an emphasis on placing art form in the context of social history

  
  • MUSC 3511 - Applied Music


    1 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC 3512 - Applied Music


    2 Semester Hours
    Private studio lessons for nonmusic; music majors Weekly repertoire class is required

  
  • MUSC 3521 - Applied Music


    1 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC 3522 - Applied Music


    2 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC 3532 - Conducting


    2 Semester Hours
    This course is provides theoretical; practical background for leading a choral ensemble The class functions as a laboratory for developing conducting techniques

    Prerequisites: MUSC 1000 
  
  • MUSC 3542 - Choral Methods


    2 Semester Hours
    This course provides students with the basic skills needed to effectively direct, manage,; program for middle; high school aged choirs, as well as church; community choral organizations It is a seminar style course that also functions as a laboratory for the continuing development of conducting skills

    Prerequisites: MUSC 3532 
  
  • MUSC 3591 - Junior Recital


    1 Semester Hours
    Junior performance concentrators only

  
  • MUSC 3750 - Special Topics


    4 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • MUSC 3760 - Special Topics


    4 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC 3800 - Directed Study


    4 Semester Hours
    Course is offered when a student needs a special subject covered to meet a professional requirement or wants to work with an instructor to look more deeply into a particular aspect of a discipline. Instructor consent required.

  
  • MUSC 3801 - Directed Study


    1 Semester Hours
    Course is offered when a student needs a special subject covered to meet a professional requirement or wants to work with an instructor to look more deeply into a particular aspect of a discipline. Instructor consent required.

  
  • MUSC 4102 - Literature for Piano


    2 Semester Hours
    This course surveys standard piano repertoire with emphasis on discovery of stylistic characteristics of major keyboard composers Student research forms an integral part of the study

  
  • MUSC 4110 - Church Music Literature and Hymnology


    4 Semester Hours
    This course explores significant large; small forms of sacred music during the first half of the course The second half examines hymnody with emphasis on English; American development of the form

  
  • MUSC 4132 - Literature for the Voice


    2 Semester Hours
    This course surveys solo song form of the Renaissance through the 20th century The course emphasizes recital/concert program building from a historical perspective Class performance is expected

  
  • MUSC 4200 - Music Methods for Today’s Schools


    4 Semester Hours
    This course explores strategies for teaching grades K-12 Elementary topics include Suzuki, Dalcroze, Kodaly,; Orff techniques, while secondary topics emphasize choral methods

  
  • MUSC 4202 - Piano Pedagogy I


    2 Semester Hours
    This course emphasizes techniques; materials used in teaching piano to children; older students in both private; class instruction Papers on topics relating to piano teaching are expected

  
  • MUSC 4220 - Vocal Pedagogy I


    4 Semester Hours
    This course explores the physical musculature; mechanics of singing, the use of technical exercises,; the psychology of vocal teaching Investigation of basic repertoire for the beginning teacher forms an integral part of the course

  
  • MUSC 4230 - Instrumental Literature & Pedagogy


    4 Semester Hours
    This course surveys standard instrumental repertoire with an emphasis on its major composers Additional techniques of applied; classroom teaching will be explored Student research, papers, class performance,; teaching demonstrations are expected

  
  • MUSC 4511 - Applied Music


    1 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC 4512 - Applied Music


    2 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC 4521 - Applied Music


    1 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC 4522 - Applied Music


    2 Semester Hours
  
  • MUSC 4532 - Applied Music


    2 Semester Hours
    5th year senior 3rd semester of applied music

  
  • MUSC 4542 - Senior Voice


    2 Semester Hours
    4th semester of senior level voice lesson

  
  • MUSC 4592 - Senior Recital


    2 Semester Hours
    Senior performance concentrators only

  
  • MUSC 4751 - Special Topics


    1 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • MUSC 4752 - Special Topics


    2 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • MUSC 4800 - Directed Study


    4 Semester Hours
    Course is offered when a student needs a special subject covered to meet a professional requirement or wants to work with an instructor to look more deeply into a particular aspect of a discipline. Instructor consent required.

  
  • MUSC 4801 - Directed Study


    1 Semester Hours
    Course is offered when a student needs a special subject covered to meet a professional requirement or wants to work with an instructor to look more deeply into a particular aspect of a discipline. Instructor consent required.

  
  • MUSC 4802 - Directed Study


    2 Semester Hours
    Course is offered when a student needs a special subject covered to meet a professional requirement or wants to work with an instructor to look more deeply into a particular aspect of a discipline. Instructor consent required.

  
  • MUSC 4803 - Directed Study


    3 Semester Hours
    Course is offered when a student needs a special subject covered to meet a professional requirement or wants to work with an instructor to look more deeply into a particular aspect of a discipline. Instructor consent required.

  
  • MUSC 4852 - Internship


    2 Semester Hours
    This course provides the prospective church musician practical experience under the guidance of a practicing, full time church musician Five to eight hours each week are spent in the church setting

  
  • MUSC 4862 - Piano Pedagogy II


    2 Semester Hours
    This course continues work begun in Piano Pedagogy I Actual teaching in an internship context is required

    Prerequisites: MUSC 4202 
  
  • MUSC 4910 - Undergraduate Thesis


    4 Semester Hours

Neuroscience & Cognitive Science

  
  • NEUR HI - Honors in Neuroscience


    4 Semester Hours
  
  • NEUR HII - Honors in Neuroscience


    4 Semester Hours
  
  • NEUR 2000 - Introduction to Neuroscience


    4 Semester Hours
    This course will be a survey of selected topics in Neuroscience that will span the breadth of the field, ranging from cell; molecular topics to behavioral; psychological aspects of the field Topics include: biomembrane structure; function, neural signaling, including action potential; neurotransmitter systems,; gross anatomy of brain, spinal cord,; peripheral nerves

    Prerequisites: PSYC 1000  
  
  • NEUR 2600 - Neuropsychology


    4 Semester Hours
    Neuropsychology is the study of brain-behavior relationships Clinical neuropsychology, the focus of this course, aims primarily to determine how brain dysfunction translates into behavioral symptoms; syndromes through the use of clinical knowledge; specialized assessement techniques

    Prerequisites: PSYC 1000  
  
  • NEUR 2750 - Special Topics


    4 Semester Hours
    This course addresses areas not covered in other courses. It may be repeated for credit with different topics.

  
  • NEUR 3200 - Neuroanatomy & Neurophysiology


    4 Semester Hours
    This course will cover the anatomical structure; physiological function of the mammalian nervous system from a regional; systems level approach The beginning of the course will concentrate on the regional structure of the nervous system; the electrochemical basis of neural communication Then, we will integrate this knowledge within sensory; motor systems to understand how specific anatomical pathways convey information between the brain; the periphery

    Prerequisites: NEUR 2000  
  
  • NEUR 3400 - Applied Research in Neuroscience


    4 Semester Hours
    This course will have students participate in applied research in neuroscience with faculty from Millsaps or University of Mississippi Medical School in a seminar about current neuroscience research; in regular class sessions related to applied research

 

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