Instructor: Dr. Theodore A. Schoen

Office: 221H
Phone: 726-8279
E-mail: tschoen@d.umn.edu
Web Page: www.d.umn.edu/~tschoen
Office hours: Posted on office door

Credit:

3 credit hours

Course Objectives:

1. To help the student develop skills in listening, understanding, and appreciating music.
2. To acquaint the student with the history of Western music as well as music of other cultures.

Required Materials:

• Machlis, Joseph, and Kristine Forney. The Enjoyment of Music (Shorter Version). 10^th ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007.
  
  This text is available as an ebook. To puchase check the UMD Bookstore or go online to www.nortonebooks.com.

• Access to the Norton Online Listening Lab (wwnorton.com/web/listenonline).  Additional listening may be required from the Naxos Music Library available on the UMD Library Website (http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/elist/indexlistpage.php)
  
• An active UMD e-mail account. University-assigned student e-mail accounts (the d.umn.edu accounts) are the University's official means of communication with all students. Students will need to regularly check this account.

Attendance Requirements:

Each student will be allowed a maximum of three unexcused absences per semester. Each absence after this allowed amount will result in the lowering of half a letter grade per absence.


Concert Reports:

Each student will submit three concert reports forms. Forms are online at www.d.umn.edu/~tschoen. All three reports must be received by 12:50 p.m., May 2. No reports will be excepted after the May 2 deadline. THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS!

Grading:

Grades will be determined by the following criteria:
3 tests worth 100 points each
3 concert reports worth 50 points each
Homework and class participation worth 100 points
550 points total for the semester

Your grade in this course will be determined by dividing the number of points you have earned by the number of points possible (550)

Test and Final Grades:

93 - 100  A 90 - 92  A- 88 - 89  B+ 83 - 87  B 80 - 82  B-

78 - 79  C+ 73 - 77  C 70 - 72  C- 68 - 69  D+ 60 - 67  D

A grade of 59 or below will receive an F.

Final: Thursday, May 15   10– 11:55 AM

ADA Statement:

Reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities may be arranged by contacting the instructor of this course on an individual basis. This syllabus can be made available in an alternate format upon request.