WEB 102: HTML and CSS introduces students to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), web standards and web accessibility. Students will use best practices and follow web standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to create content that looks appropriate and functions correctly on all devices. Using the mobile first method, students will apply the skills learned to design and build a standards compliant website from conception through completion.
- Teacher: Tomoko Okochi
This course is designed to help students develop their instrumental skills. Grouped by instrument, students learn the fundamentals of reading, articulation, balance, dynamics, styles and technique as related to their particular instrument. This course is taught “instrument-in-hand” and also uses audio and visual aids to explore different techniques and styles. A requirement in all majors, students have weekly assignments.
- Teacher: Joel Fountain
Private instruction in all things related to the drum set.
- Teacher: Joel Fountain
MUSC 256 Stage Performance Techniques I. Students will learn how to construct and organize a concert from Ato Z. Students will have to produce arrangements for all instruments involved, and assume a leadership role in rehearsals. They will be required to perform a wide variety of music at their instrument.
- Teacher: Jillian Mckenna
This course covers basic harmonic theory and common musical notation used in the music industry today. Topics include clefs, note recognition, key signatures, scales, intervals, triad and seventh chord construction, available tensions and basic harmonic functions. Upon successful completion of the course students will have a comprehensive and literate vocabulary of basic musical terms and symbols, and a working knowledge of basic harmonic functions.
- Teacher: Jillian Mckenna
A survey of the music of the jazz idiom from its origins to the present. Included is a chronological study of important soloists, bands, vocalists, and composers. Classes will be partly lecture aided by video clips and partly analysis with intensive listening.
- Teacher: Jillian Mckenna