MUS 253 - Sound and the Environment

This course will engage with the many ways sound mediates the meaning and experience of our natural and built environments, exploring what and how we are able to know about our world through listening. Drawing on an interdisciplinary set of literature from music, sound, media, and science and technology studies and developing a series of hands-on projects for the critical documentation and representation of sonic environments, students will gain practical and theoretical understanding of how sound articulates and speaks to larger issues of environmental and social justice in a variety of places, times, and contexts.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Instructional Method: Conference
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts).