2020-2021 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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MSDA 3950 - Independent Study
If a student wishes to pursue an independent study, they must contact their advisor before registration begins. The advisor will work with the student to discuss and develop a substantive proposal. In some cases, the advisor may have a particular project or research need that will be assigned as an Independent Study.
The proposal will include a short synopsis of the proposed study, including assignments, bibliography and a description of the proposed deliverables at the end of the course. The advisor approves the final version of the completed Independent Study form and attaches the proposal. In addition, a detailed syllabus must accompany the proposal. The syllabi is developed with the advisor who will be overseeing the independent study. The Independent Study form is forwarded to the Assistant Dean for review and final approval. The Registrar’s Office will issue the CRN (course registration number) to the student via email. The student is responsible for registering for the independent study online.
Proposals for independent study will only be accepted during the first week of registration. The only exception for approving an independent study during the drop/add period, is if a student is registered in a class that has been cancelled.
This Independent Study is in the field of Data Analytics
May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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MSDA 3999 - Capstone Practicum
Integrates the course work of the MSDA program into a comprehensive application. While in teams under the supervision of a faculty instructor, students address an actual challenge faced by an organization of a department within an organization. Students study the issues, review industry trends, research the depth of the issue, and make a series of recommendations to key members of an organization. The practicum culminates in a formal written and oral presentation of the team’s work, which is evaluated by faculty and organization professionals.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring, Fall, Summer
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MSIT 3050 - Information Systems Analysis and Design
Despite its current and future technological capabilities, the computer still owes its power and usefulness to people. Business people define the business problems to be solved by the computer. Computer programmers and technicians apply information technology to build information systems that solve those problems. Systems Analysis and Design is the study of a business problem domain to recommend improvements and specify the business requirements for the solution through the specification or construction of a technical, computer based solution.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSIT 3090 - Python Programming
This elective course compliments our existing portfolio of courses and enhances the experience of our students in several ways. Python is one one of today’s most prevalent programing languages and it’s beneficial for IT professionals, regardless of their career goals, to have a working knowledge of Python principles and practical applications. Additionally, many of our students seek careers in data management and IT/Cyber data analysis. The cases presented in the course focus on using Python to extract data and import it to industry standard analysis tools.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSIT 3100 - Contemporary Issues in IT
A critical part of any IT leader’s responsibility is to remain current with the overall trends and issues within the industry in order to understand their potential impact on their organization and their own careers. This course is intended for new MSIT students and will provide an overview of current industry trends and issues.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSIT 3110 - Cyber Security Fundamentals
Begins with an introduction to the basic concepts of data security both physical and logical. It continues with dealing with data security standards, the SSL and S-HTTP protocols, data integrity; data encryption; coding methods; the use of smart cards; assurances of financial transactions, payment methods of E-business and E-Commerce; medical information security, legal aspects of information security.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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MSIT 3141 - Health Data and Record Systems
There have been dramatic advances in health data technologies as well as exponential growth in the amount of data being produced. This course aims to provide an overview of the healthcare data landscape including the history of the digital healthcare industry and supporting IT infrastructure, a brief overview of the legislation responsible for shaping the current state and path forward, and a deep dive into the almost limitless options for tackling and analyzing health data. Many efficiencies and opportunities are on the horizon, from enhancements in quality of care, clinical decision making, population health, and economies of scale. In this course, students will gain deep understanding of how to leverage a multitude of disparate data sources, with Big Data methods, in order to have a positive impact on healthcare.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSIT 3150 - Security Architecture and Design
This course addresses the components required to implement security within the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)). Text, articles and cases focus on how to analyze internal applications, computing platforms, network infrastructure relative to an enterprise’s operating model to insure optimized security architecture.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSIT 3220 - Social Media Enterprise Intergration
Web 2.0 is a ubiquitous buzzword these days. It has broad implications in the internet world and includes Social Networking, WiKi, audio and video podcasting, blogging, and more. If you would you like to learn how to harness the power of the new Internet applications and media tools in a highly networked world, this class will provide you a good theoretical and practical understanding. The questions this class will explore fall into two general categories. First, what are the social and business implications of these new technologies? For example, are we using new media in an appropriate way? Are there or will there be losers and winners from a social and business context? Second, we will look at the technologies themselves to understand their level of complexity and how consumers and businesses can use or implement them appropriately. This will be an interactive class where students will share ideas and experiences and will gain exposure to tools that can be used to boost their marketing and communications objectives.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSIT 3250 - Network Architecture and Design
This course addresses both fundamental and advanced concepts in modern data networking and security. Text, articles, labs and cases focus on understanding, planning, building, and securing IPv4/IPv6 LAN, WLAN, MAN and WAN environments.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSIT 3350 - Data Mining With Splunk
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the standard platform for billions of smart devices that generate machine log data. Splunk Enterprise can harness and leverage this valuable machine data (which contains a definitive record of all user transactions, customer behavior, machine behavior, security threats, system health, fraudulent activity and more) to provide enterprises valuable business, operational, and security intelligence. Coursework will cover Business Intelligence key concepts, Splunk Enterprise architecture and hands-on working sessions requiring students to install Splunk to complete the exercises (mine machine data, identify data patterns, create Splunk reports, dashboards, alerts, and applications).
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSIT 3410 - IT Strategy Leadership
IT Strategy requires a business-driven enterprise IT governance framework and use of day-to-day best practices. Leaders must ensure that IT investments respond to the most important business issues and opportunities. The scope of project efforts needs to cover business and IT people (internal and external), business process improvements and IT factors in a balanced solution. The velocity of change in most industries today requires companies to periodically defer continuous improvement efforts in favor of those that genuinely transform the firm dramatically and rapidly to another state. Such changes are almost always highly leveraged by technology. It takes strong leadership and discipline to make it happen? leadership from the executive team and board, from the CIO and senior IT staff, from key functional managers across the company who get it and insist on it. The course goal is that you gain understanding of the factors involved and you start to define what all this means to you and your career.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSIT 3420 - I.T. Operations
IT Operations doesn’t just mean desktop support. Some operations teams control the security systems protecting nuclear power plants, while others manage the paths to billions of dollars at the stock exchange. This course investigates the high-energy, often rebellious, and sometimes anti-social aspects of information technology operations to discover the most effective ways to lead these complicated teams and their highly skilled professionals toward success.
24/7 schedules, BOFH, and constant paging make leading an information technology operations team complicated at best. This course investigates the focus, drive, and passion that make IT operations the heart of any technology company and how you as a leader can understand, guide, and motivate the skilled engineers that keep the worlds computer systems running.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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MSIT 3440 - Special Topics: Information Technology
This course addresses current or timely topics (in Information Technology) that are in a pilot phase or are known to be one time offerings. Special Topics can vary from semester to semester. May be repeated for credit.
SUMMER 2019 TOPICS:
SECURING ADAS FROM CYBER ATTACKS - This course will focus on researching ADAS(Advanced Driver Assistance Systems), assisted and autonomous automobiles, maturity of design, key developers in today’s market, communication and networking technologies, system testing, known vulnerabilities, built in protection mechanisms and safeguards and the direct relationship of how cybercriminals of the future will try to circumvent security mechanisms to gain control of smart (or autonomous) automobiles, with intent to steal or inflict bodily harm.
FALL 2019 TOPICS:
FOUNDATIONS OF THE LEAN ENTERPRISE - Foundations of the Lean Enterprise will lead the student through the building blocks of a progressive framework which enables the benefit of the agile development methodology at the enterprise level. In doing so, the opportunity to implement the culture of a learning organization is identified and supplemented with Lean Startup techniques (like Design Thinking). Together, the enterprise is better able to complete with the disruptive, nimble challengers popping up in their marketplace.
Anticipated Terms Offered: various
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MSIT 3450 - Health Informatics
Health informatics in today’s healthcare industry is driven by the need to improve quality and efficiency through the use of big data, business intelligence and performance measurement and improvement. This course will approach practical applications of health informatics from many perspectives within the healthcare industry (i.e. physicians, hospitals, insurers, government agencies, research institutions, pharma). Students will gain a detailed understanding of how to conduct research and identify trends in health records, evaluate healthcare operations and understand effective measurement of healthcare financial performance. Additionally, students will explore key trends in health care technology driven by response to policy changes in the United States, such as the expansion of electronic health record systems.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSIT 3460 - Agile Software Development Methodology
Whether you work at a startup (breaking into a market) or a large corporation (attempting to maintain market share), your customers demand delivery of frequent innovations that make their user experience better and differentiate your products from the growing competition. To ensure this, organizations need to embrace a new way of developing these strategic features.
Continuing the project management journey, this course builds on the foundations gained in the Project Management Fundamentals course and extends them to the Lean Agile delivery methodology. By acknowledging that delivery methodologies are not ‘one size fits all’, we become versed in the one that meets the challenges faced by today’s technology innovators. This is the basis on which we can layer the progressive techniques found in Lean Startup and the Scaled Agile Framework.
As a project leader, you’ll investigate new roles, responsibilities, checkpoints (ceremonies), and metrics. Our course goals are accomplished through reading, homework assignments, in-class discussions, group presentations and an agile project simulation.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSIT 3510 - Enterprise Architecture Design
Enterprise Architecture is the organizing logic for a firms IT infrastructure relative to its business processes/operating model. This course provides an introduction to EA Planning in support of Enterprise Strategy and helps the student to develop a solid understanding of the importance of enterprise architecture design.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSIT 3710 - Cyber Security Risk and Threat Management
Explores understanding of risk management life cycles, risk profiling, formulating
risks, risk evaluation and mitigation strategies. The course also covers enterprise
vulnerability management from a people, process, structure, technology and
contracting perspective.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSIT 3720 - Cyber Security: Information Assurance Strategic Management
This course covers what an Enterprise Information Assurance (aka Information Security or Cyber Security) Program should include regarding strategic goals and objectives, roadmap planning, people, process, structure and technology capabilities, services and competencies. A view through a CISO’s eyes in developing, growing, establishing talent management, investment planning and on-going compliance management for organizational cyber security preparedness.
Anticipated Terms Offered: various
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MSIT 3730 - Cyber Security Technology Operations and Delivery
This course covers the IT operations side of cyber security from a daily management responsibility. Highlighting operational challenges and solution approaches to maturing cyber security technology practices. Topics such as solution engineering, Incident Response, forensics, chain of custody, integration, Project delivery with other key IT Infrastructure, Systems, Databases and Applications are explored. This elective course also covers essential cyber safe practices to begin addressing significant weaknesses in vendor and organizational services/applications today that cyber attackers use as easy gateways into breaching organizations. Both Product and Application Development lifecycles are explored including agile methods.
Anticipated Terms Offered: various
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MSIT 3740 - Cyber Security Ethics:Technology, Society and Government
Given the nascent market for Cyber Security and the number of privacy concerns, This course will identify, review, decompose and discuss new approaches to a number of legislative bills, Laws, regulations and social concerns that continue to evolve related to cyber security exposure. Cyber security ethics and privacy have become a top global priority concern with social media service giants pushing the divide between innovation and privacy protection rights.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSIT 3750 - Lean Practices and Organizational Change
This course will lead students through the building blocks of a progressive framework, which enables the benefits of an agile development methodology at the enterprise level. In doing so, the opportunity to implement the culture of a learning organization is supplemented with Lean Startup techniques like Design Thinking. Together, the enterprise is better able to compete with the disruptive, nimble challengers popping up in their marketplace.
Prerequisites: MSIT 3840 - IT Project Management Fundamentals
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSIT 3760 - Design Thinking Approach to Product Development
Creating a product or service that will disrupt an industry is every entrepreneur’s vision. Providing next level innovative features that allow continued dominance in a market is every large corporation’s goal. Both of these executive aspirations are predicated on a culture of continuous innovation. Design Thinking is its fuel.
Utilizing the design firm IDEO’s texts, we’ll study their process for innovation and discover the strategies that made them a Silicon Valley success story. Through readings, homework assignments, presentations and classroom discussions, we’ll explore their ideas for team-work, the deep-dive, observational based learning, and problem statements.
Having traversed the project management track, you’ve built an understanding of the technical product delivery framework. You’ve mastered advanced agile skills and absorbed the concepts of the learning organization. Now with Design Thinking Approach to Product Development, you’ll finally add the critical processes for innovation that will feed the system with customer pleasing features.
Prerequisites: MSIT 3840 IT Project Management Fundamentals
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSIT 3790 - Cyber Security Warfare and Risk Management
This course focus on the managerial aspects of assessing and mitigating the pre-dominant cyber risks faced by an organization. Topics covered include access control models, info security governance an IT security program assessment and metrics. Coverage on the foundational and technical components of information is included to reinforce key concepts. This course will explore the current threat landscape and provide a strategic approach to securing enterprise assets.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSIT 3799 - Advanced Topics: Cyber Security (Capstone)
This core course will provide students more specialized focus areas of Cyber Security as individuals and/or small teams that will work with established business projects applying the knowledge and experience gained during the year in the Graduate Cyber Security Program at Clark University. This course also covers essential practice security architecture standards organizations must deploy and evolve with today’s cyber security challenges. Many industry control frameworks will be reviewed and explored across different industries to assist in applying effective an consistent cyber security controls across enterprise level assets. Topics such as cloud, mobility, identity blending, social media, Cryptography and Identity & Access Management are explored.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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MSIT 3800 - Cyber Security Policy Development and Assessment
Cyber Security executives must construct security policies aligned with and supportive of the enterprises’ business model and associated processes. This alignment helps insure that executive leadership is supportive and all employees within the organization follow the policies. This course examines the steps required in policy development.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSIT 3820 - Business Intelligence
Businesses today are constantly changing, becoming more and more complex. Organizations, private and public, are under pressures forcing them to respond quickly to change and to be innovative in the way they operate. This drives them to be more agile and to make frequent and quick strategic, tactical, and operational decisions — decisions that often require considerable amounts of relevant data, information and knowledge. Processing these information assets, in the framework of the needed decisions, is what business intelligence is all about. This course addresses BI solutions which deliver computerized support for managerial decision making.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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MSIT 3840 - IT Project Management Fundamentals
This course provides participants with the foundation, techniques and tools to manage each stage of the project life cycle, working within organizational and cost constraints, setting goals tied directly to stakeholder needs, getting the most from their project team, and utilizing state-of-the-art project management tools to get the work done on time and within budget. It covers all Project Management Knowledge Areas: Integration, Scope Management, Time Management, Cost Management, Scheduling, Estimating, Risk Management, Contract Management, Quality Management, and Leadership & Communication, and covers the entire project life-cycle as well as all Project Management Process groups (Initiating, Planning, and Executing, Controlling and Closing). It also provides an introduction to the principles and practices of project management. A blend of lecture, discussion and practical application in managing projects and teams this course provides the students with an optimized learning process and practical application of the technical and soft-skills learned.
Anticipated Terms Offered: various
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MSIT 3860 - Data Management for Information Technology
Digitized business processes and data analytics are essential to the performance and competitive advantage of a modern corporation. The course is intended to provide insight and an IT leadership perspective to the principles of data management, visualization, data mining and AI/machine learning can be applied to enterprise intelligence.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSIT 3880 - Enterprise Data Architectures
Hadoop, the open source framework supporting extremely large data sets, has been evolving towards becoming a more integrated component of an enterprise’s overall IT architecture. This course is intended to provide a pragmatic understanding of Hadoop and how it’s evolution enables an enterprise to make more effective use of all forms of data.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSIT 3940 - Internship
Students secure placement in internships that complement their academic pursuits. Internships may be without pay or may pay a salary or stipend. Tasks assigned during an internship are expected to involve a balance of needed clerical work and challenging responsibilities allowing professional growth, with a time commitment of 20 hours per week. Interns report to a designated on-site supervisor who provides guidance and feedback on performance. Both the intern and the on-site supervisor interface with the academic coordinator to assure smooth progress during the semester. Periodic on-campus seminars with the academic supervisor provide an arena for feedback on issues common to all the interns; the academic coordinator also provides a wider perspective on concerns at individual internship sites. The internship is strongly encouraged for all students with fewer than three years full-time professional work experience.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSIT 3950 - Independent Study
If a student wishes to pursue an independent study, they must contact their advisor before registration begins. The advisor will work with the student to discuss and develop a substantive proposal. In some cases, the advisor may have a particular project or research need that will be assigned as an Independent Study.
The proposal will include a short synopsis of the proposed study, including assignments, bibliography and a description of the proposed deliverables at the end of the course. The advisor approves the final version of the completed Independent Study form and attaches the proposal. In addition, a detailed syllabus must accompany the proposal. The syllabi is developed with the advisor who will be overseeing the independent study. The Independent Study form is forwarded to the Assistant Dean for review and final approval. The Registrar’s Office will issue the CRN (course registration number) to the student via email. The student is responsible for registering for the independent study online.
Proposals for independent study will only be accepted during the first week of registration. The only exception for approving an independent study during the drop/add period, is if a student is registered in a class that has been cancelled.
This Independent Study is in the field of Information Technology.
May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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MSIT 3999 - Capstone Practicum
Integrates the course work of the MSIT program into a comprehensive application. While in teams under the supervision of a faculty instructor, students address an actual challenge faced by an organization of a department within an organization. Students study the issues, review industry trends, research the depth of the issue, and make a series of recommendations to key members of an organization. The practicum culminates in a formal written and oral presentation of the team’s work, which is evaluated by faculty and organization professionals.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSPC 3030 - Freelance Writing and Strategy
The course defines what being a freelance professional means and how digital and social media have made access to freelance work possible. In this course students learn how to promote their business and become a specialist in a chosen field, or work as a consultant to businesses and organizations in need of promotional and marketing materials. Students will learn how to research and write compelling articles for both print and online formats.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSPC 3050 - Social Media and Marketing Communication
Social media has rapidly altered how organizations extend their brands, influence public opinion, and engage consumers and citizens through online tools. Moving beyond traditional mainstream media, social media has directly impacted how institutions market themselves and distribute news and information through new cost-effective tools such as blogging and podcasting. This course will explore how social media is effective and influential forces that can help individuals, politicians, businesses, and non-profit organizations with their marketing and media relations needs.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSPC 3090 - Public Relations
This course analyzes basic principles of public relations through readings, lectures, case studies, class discussion and campaign design. History and definition of public relations provide the foundation for considering audiences, stakeholders, contingency planning, media relations and ethics.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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MSPC 3100 - Marketing Communication
This course develops a solid understanding of the conceptual basis and theoretical structure of the principles of marketing and promotes best practice marketing and business solutions. Students act in a consulting capacity and develop a high-level strategic and tactical marketing plan for a client company that will use it to launch a new product/new venture, reposition the organization, or address a chronic problem. Focal points of the course include branding, concurrent marketing, international marketing, Internet marketing, and buying behavior.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSPC 3114 - Crisis Communication
The goal of this course is to provide students with a basic understanding of crisis communication as it relates to organizational behavior. Course readings and class discussions will include crisis communication theories, crisis communication plan development, risk management and communication ethics, and reviews and critiques of crisis communication case studies.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSPC 3130 - Principles of Marketing
This course provides practical and theoretical instruction to public sector professionals who are involved in the marketing efforts of their organizations. The central focus is on developing marketing plans. Topics include: strategic and tactical market planning; market segmentation; target marketing and positioning; social, legal, and competitive issues; managing products and services; developing new products and services; creative techniques; managing costs and pricing; and distribution and delivery of products and services.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSPC 3211 - Leading Responsibly
This course explores the context and importance of communicating responsibly from an ethical perspective. Adopting a systemic approach, students will explore the core competencies communicators need to develop for ethical communication practices. Ethics and the concept of principled public relations are woven throughout discussions and assignments. A particular focus will be on privacy data considerations for web and social communication platforms. The ethical and legal focus underscores the importance of responsibly communicating an era of misinformation and “fake news”.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSPC 3212 - Marketing and Communication Strategies
This course examines the theoretical and structural models of marketing communication. The course material is designed to provide a foundation to the concept of customer intimacy as related to marketing. Students will explore marketing approaches for Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business to Consumer (B2C). The course will provide students with the knowledge and tools to create a coherent and fully integrated promotional campaign. Students will participate in the development of diverse marketing and strategic communications approaches targeting different stakeholders. The global nature of advertising and marketing is also covered.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSPC 3213 - Strategic Marketing Tools and Applications
This course is built on experiential learning for developing an integrated marketing communications strategy plan. The focus of the course work is to deeper the understanding of marketing, targeting customers, consumer behavior and values. The experiential component focuses on understanding how advertising, sales promotion, public relations, personal selling, word of mouth, social media, website content and presence, internal marketing, and in some cases design and packaging decisions form a coordinated marketing communications strategy. The course provides the conceptual underpinnings and approaches while exploring contemporary tools available for integrated strategic marketing communications.
Prerequisites: MSPC 3212 Marketing and Communications Strategies
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSPC 3216 - Journalism in an Age of Social Media
Navigating the minefield of news and information in an era in which journalism and information-sharing have been upended by the advent of digital delivery, social media, and the political environment. Presented by a senior journalist and media executive who holds multiple reporting, editing and industry business awards, and with a dual purpose of serving both prospective journalists and consumers of news looking for a deeper understanding of how news and information are presented. Students will gain an understanding of how we got to today, ethical and practical pitfalls facing journalists, threats to contemporary journalists and journalism, how to detect not just “fake news” but also understanding and accounting for bias. Discussion will include differentiating between the so-called gold standards of ”objectivity” versus “fairness,” and developing models for better journalism and smarter news consumption.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSPC 3217 - PR in the Digital Age
In the past decade the proliferation and growing relevance of social media have sparked a global discussion about their effects on human communication. From their role in political revolution to their influence on the social lives of teenagers, digital communication technologies have precipitated heated debates. Public relations (PR), or the practice of managing the flow of communication between a corporation, organization, individual and the wider public, has not been an exception. This course explores PR through a critical perspective that focuses on the changes and continuities the field experiences in the age of digital communication. The course approaches both PR and new media from an ethical angle that investigates how they work together and the moral and political dilemmas that their unity engenders. Course participants will engage in a critical conversation that examines the place of PR in our contemporary world as well as the role of critical citizens in an age of electronic communication. With its ethical rather than marketing focus this course raises questions that often remain underexplored in journalistic and everyday discussions of PR and emergent media. Some of the topics that “Public Relations in the Digital Age” examines are the formation of online identities, social media policies, corporate social responsibility (CSR), government PR and political campaigns. The class material will consist of lectures, discussions, and film screenings.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSPC 3218 - Brand Journalism
The biggest trend in corporate marketing and communications is storytelling and brand journalism. Internal and external communications in the business world is much like attracting an audience on television. This is a “real-world” course offering because hundreds of companies are creating their own ‘newsrooms’ in this noisy informational environment. This course will examine storytelling in the corporate environment and provide hands on, actionable ideas in the areas of video production, social media strategy, internal and external communications strategy and data driven storytelling. Brand journalists utilize journalism and storytelling skills to tell a company’s story.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSPC 3219 - Communicating Sustainability
In this course, we will explore the theory and praxis surrounding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the related attempts by organizations to respond to pressure to increase their transparency on their social, economic, and environmental impacts. We will examine the context in which CSR emerged to include public interest beyond the obligations of regulations and legal structures and we will survey how organizations measure impacts and hold themselves accountable. A key focus of the course will be on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the adoption and evolution of its framework for sustainability reporting.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSPC 3220 - Communication Practicum
A journey from conception, to structure, to word usage and sentence composition in moving audiences across multiple communication disciplines. Included are advocacy, business, marketing, grant writing, social media and literary styles presented through class discussion and exercises on what goes into getting your message heard. The course includes guest presentations from professional writers/communicators, and weekly prose writing exercises. A major component involves individual mentoring through one-on-one critiques of your work aimed at honing your skills. The focus builds from observation and conception, incorporates critical thinking and awareness of audience needs and expectations, and getting it from your brain to your chosen medium.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSPC 3221 - Communication and Social Media in a Rapidly Changing World
This course will introduce the theories and practices of contemporary communications and social media, and bolster your knowledge, skills, and abilities in both areas. Topics will include effective communication, written, oral and digital communication, the power of persuasion, social media, and podcasting. Students will have an opportunity to practice their oral communication skills and engage in a community-based project.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSPC 3280 - Global Talent Development
Today, the future of work has emerged as a critical issue facing businesses across the globe. An intensifying combination of economic, social and political issues is challenging business strategies. How well an organization can respond to and lead their people during these accelerating changes will inevitably impact productivity, margin, culture and quality. Thus, having a sound understanding of HR Management and the Future of Work is essential for any student whether working in financial services, healthcare, technology, retail, education, government, or any other type of industry. This course will familiarize students with the basic principles and techniques of human resource management while taking real-world views of how to practically apply learnings within high-performing, global organizations. A key focus of this course is around how the future of HR is actively reinventing itself through three key domains of change: Future of the workforce, Future of organizations and the Future of HR.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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MSPC 3300 - Professional Communication Seminar
This seminar provides an overview of the significance of communication styles and approaches in contemporary workplace environments. Students engage in self-assessment of communication competence and learn strategies for enhancing written and oral communication abilities. In addition, students will develop listening and speaking skills, understand and apply theories of persuasion, plan and implement professional oral and visual presentations, learn how to contribute as an effective member of a workplace team, and explore and prepare for professional careers.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSPC 3313 - Multi Channel Communications
This course focuses on the mechanics of effective persuasive writing to communicate strategically through digital channels; how to analyze the structure and content of an effective social media post; and how to motivate stakeholders to take action. The course material covers a wide variety of resources (newsletter, press release, web and social media) that allow professional communicators to reach out to different targets.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSPC 3440 - Special Topics: Communication
This course addresses current or timely topics (in Communication) that are in a pilot phase or are known to be one time offerings. Special Topics can vary from semester to semester. May be repeated for credit.
Summer I 2020:
MSPC 3440-01 COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD We live in unprecedented times. Everything has changed, yet we need to figure out how to move forward despite economic and social uncertainty. This course will introduce you to the theories and practices of contemporary communications and social media, and bolster your knowledge, skills and abilities in both areas. Topics will include: effective communication, written, oral and digital communication, the power of persuasion, social media, and podcasting. Students will have an opportunity to practice their oral communication skills and - if possible – engage in a community-based project to help 1-2 local nonprofits improve their communications program.
MSPC 3440-02 ETHICS IN THE DIGITAL WORLD This course presents ethical dilemmas in digital marketing and works through the implications of various actions, such as tricking search engines (typically called “black hat” techniques), posing as customers in social media, making false or exaggerated claims, and using questionable or sneaky channels (e.g. pop-ups and plug-ins). In this course, we will explore several issues or concepts in depth, first introducing the facetsand aspects of the topic, then utilizing that knowledge to develop our principles and values
through dialogue and the examination of multiple perspectives.
MSPC 3440-03 SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AT WORK With employers looking for leaders and team members who can effectively connect, communicate, and collaborate, it is important to pay attention to the social emotional component of the workplace. This course will offer participants the opportunity to identify key characteristics of emotional intelligence and how to leverage these understandings in the workplace as a leader or a member of a team. As well, we will explore how to integrate opportunities for social emotional learning by examining current practices in the field of education and business.
Fall 2020:
MSPC 3440-01 EFFECTIVE SPEAKING This experiential learning course introduces the principles of effective speaking that will allow students to increase their effectiveness in a wide range of public and social settings. Whether we’re talking in a team meeting or presenting in front of an audience, we have to speak in public from time to time. Being a good public speaker can enhance your reputation, boost your self-confidence, and open up countless career opportunities. Topics covered in this course include preparation, content selection and organization, audience analysis, delivery techniques, reducing clutter, use of technology, non-verbal communication analysis and the use of visuals.
MSPC 3440-02 CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS This course provides a comprehensive introduction to corporate communications and public relations. Corporations increasingly need communication to survive, as they need to build and maintain relations with a variety of stakeholders to prosper. This includes actors external to the organization - customers, governments and civil society organizations - but also stakeholders within corporations themselves, such as employees, managers and investors. Corporate communication can be characterized as both a field of academic inquiry and a practice. Students will develop both an understanding and a practical application of corporate communications.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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MSPC 3450 - Global Marketing and Advertising
This course explores the challenges and opportunities facing businesses in the new global economy. Areas of focus include cultural, political, economic and social system similarities and differences across the globe; the financial environment of international marketing; exporting and entry strategies.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSPC 3460 - Emotional Intelligence in Workplace Communication
With employers looking for leaders and team members who can effectively connect, communicate, and collaborate, it is important to pay attention to the social emotional component of the workplace. This course will offer participants the opportunity to identify key characteristics of social emotional intelligence and how to leverage these understandings in the workplace as a leader or a member of a team. As well, we will explore how to integrate opportunities for social emotional learning by examining current practices in the field of education and business.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
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MSPC 3620 - Cultural Diversity And Intercultural Communication
Creates an awareness of our unconscious prejudices, our verbal and nonverbal presentations and how this may influence our interactions with people from other cultures. By focusing on the history and contributions of various ethnic groups in the United States, students gain a heightened appreciation of difference and an understanding of culturally-specific needs.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSPC 3750 - Advertising Theory and Practice
Applies advertising communication theory to campaign design and development. Students, in small entrepreneurial design teams, research and develop a complete advertising campaign with associated advertising genres, including objectives, design decisions, media strategies and campaign evaluation.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSPC 3760 - Contemporary Issues in Communication
This course will examine the new trends in the field of communication and their consequences and impact on society. This course will explore trends in mass communication, organizational communication, and new findings in interpersonal communication that are influencing the way people think, live and work.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSPC 3770 - Political Communication
This course offers an introduction to political communication, a preeminently practical activity whose role in informing, influencing and legitimizing decisions is crucial to both domestic and international politics. The course looks at fundamental themes of political communication, such as agenda setting, framing, and branding. The course also looks at relevant media formats - infotainment for example - or trends - the emotive news - or technology - the new media. This course is based on the idea that to achieve effective political communication it is necessary to know how media work in general and in the context of politics, and how citizens, journalists and politicians make sense of and use political messages.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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MSPC 3800 - Global Communication Strategy
In this course, students gain an understanding of the foundations, scope, and challenges of global marketing, as well as the cultural environments of global markets.
Organizations and businesses are always facing new challenges including slow domestic market growth, international competition, deregulation of formerly protected industries, short product life cycles, and emergence of global brands. This course will equip students with skills to understand and handle current and developing challenges in global marketing and how to create and implement successful strategies.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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MSPC 3940 - Internship
Students secure placement in internships that complement their academic pursuits. Internships may be without pay or may pay a salary or stipend. Tasks assigned during an internship are expected to involve a balance of needed clerical work and challenging responsibilities allowing professional growth, with a time commitment of 20 hours per week. Interns report to a designated on-site supervisor who provides guidance and feedback on performance. Both the intern and the on-site supervisor interface with the academic coordinator to assure smooth progress during the semester. Periodic on-campus seminars with the academic supervisor provide an arena for feedback on issues common to all the interns; the academic coordinator also provides a wider perspective on concerns at individual internship sites. The internship is strongly encouraged for all students with fewer than three years full-time professional work experience.
Anticipated Terms Offered: every semester
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MSPC 3950 - Independent Study
If a student wishes to pursue an independent study, they must contact their advisor before registration begins. The advisor will work with the student to discuss and develop a substantive proposal. In some cases, the advisor may have a particular project or research need that will be assigned as an Independent Study.
The proposal will include a short synopsis of the proposed study, including assignments, bibliography and a description of the proposed deliverables at the end of the course. The advisor approves the final version of the completed Independent Study form and attaches the proposal. In addition, a detailed syllabus must accompany the proposal. The syllabi is developed with the advisor who will be overseeing the independent study. The Independent Study form is forwarded to the Assistant Dean for review and final approval. The Registrar’s Office will issue the CRN (course registration number) to the student via email. The student is responsible for registering for the independent study online.
Proposals for independent study will only be accepted during the first week of registration. The only exception for approving an independent study during the drop/add period, is if a student is registered in a class that has been cancelled.
This Independent Study is in the field of Communication
May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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MSPC 3999 - Capstone Practicum
Integrates the course work of the MSC program into a comprehensive application. While in teams under the supervision of a faculty instructor, students address an actual challenge faced by an organization or a department within an organization. Students study the issues, review industry trends, research the depth of the issue, and make a series of recommendations to key members of an organization. The practicum culminates in a formal written and oral presentation of the team’s work, which is evaluated by faculty and organization professionals.
Anticipated Terms Offered: every semester
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MSPM 3580 - Risk, Quality and Change Management
Assessing risk, managing quality and effectively managing change are 3 of the critical success factors of any project. This course will, through a series of readings, lectures and selective case studies introduce methodologies for each area and provide an understanding of how they collectively affect the ultimate success of any project.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSPM 3680 - Program and Portfolio Management
Larger organizations in all industries often manage large projects with or as part of Program Management organizations. This course, through a combination of lecture, discussion and case studies, introduces students to the strategy’s organizations use to prioritize and manage a portfolio of complex and often geographically distributed projects.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSPM 3780 - IT Economics, Finances and Budgeting
The ongoing evolution of IT deployment impacts how companies view and execute projects of all sizes. This course will provide students a foundation to understand how to consider development and deployment options with IT projects, consider the impact of globalization of IT on cost and negotiate 3rd party participation in projects.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSPM 3790 - Managing Troubled Projects
Projects may start without formal management or project managers may be called on to rescue trouble projects. Regardless of the circumstances, project managers will, at some point in their career, be responsible for “finding a path forward”. This course, through a mix of case study analysis, lecture and classroom discussion will provide students with the skills necessary to be successful.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varied
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MSPM 3800 - Experiential Learning
Experiential Learning is the culminating experience of MSPM students. Students will demonstrate the professional competencies gained in the classroom through one of several options; Internships, Capstone Projects and Capstone Research or Case Studies. Each option provides the opportunity to apply and improve their professional skills, analytic and research skills and pragmatic problem solving in areas specific to their professional aspirations.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Each Semester
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MSPM 3950 - Independent Study
If a student wishes to pursue an independent study, they must contact their advisor before registration begins. The advisor will work with the student to discuss and develop a substantive proposal. In some cases, the advisor may have a particular project or research need that will be assigned as an Independent Study.
The proposal will include a short synopsis of the proposed study, including assignments, bibliography and a description of the proposed deliverables at the end of the course. The advisor approves the final version of the completed Independent Study form and attaches the proposal. In addition, a detailed syllabus must accompany the proposal. The syllabi is developed with the advisor who will be overseeing the independent study. The Independent Study form is forwarded to the Assistant Dean for review and final approval. The Registrar’s Office will issue the CRN (course registration number) to the student via email. The student is responsible for registering for the independent study online.
Proposals for independent study will only be accepted during the first week of registration. The only exception for approving an independent study during the drop/add period, is if a student is registered in a class that has been cancelled.
This Independent Study is in the field of Project Management.
May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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MUSC 010 - Introduction to Music
Designed for the nonmajor, the course expands the concept of the musical experience and develops discriminating listeners. The course includes an introduction to principles of rhythm, pitch, timbre (and their notations); the principles of structure; the aesthetics of music; specific forms including fugue, sonata form, variations; and selected historical styles.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 012 - Pop Music in the USA
Beginning with what is (arguably) the start of the popular in American music, this course will examine Tin Pan Alley, Blues, Country, R&B, Swing, early Rock ‘n Roll, Motown, the Folk Revival, the British Invasion, Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Rock, Punk, Disco and Heavy Metal, as well as some more recent music. The course will focus on understanding the stylistic and historical practices of this wide range of popular music. The principle perspective of the class will address popular music as an audible text as an artifact of, and contributor to, popular music culture. No previous musical experience (such as the ability to read or play music) is assumed. However, a willingness to listen to all of this music carefully and to engage a variety of theoretical approaches is presumed.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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MUSC 014 - Introduction to World Music
This largely nontechnical survey course seeks to foster a meaningful understanding and appreciation of diverse musical experiences from around the globe. Our explorations will alternate between two distinctive approaches: (1) studying the musical cultures of specific geographical areas and (2) discussing broader topics of comparison between cultures. The ultimate aim is for each student to attain a more holistic, global perspective from which to savor each experience. Assignments will help students to listen more actively and also examine how their own basic assumption about music - what they take for granted - may comprise just one corner of a larger and richer “world” of musical possibility.
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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MUSC 018 - Private Instruction Instruments and Voice
Private Instruction in Instruments and Voice Areas offered for non credit include: piano, jazz piano, voice, jazz vocal, clarinet, saxophone, flute, classical guitar, jazz guitar, violin, viola French horn, trumpet, bassoon, trombone and low brass, cello, percussion, string bass, and conducting. In areas not currently offered at Clark, the music program will find a qualified instructor.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every semester
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MUSC 021 - Making Music
In this introductory music course, students study the essentials of music through singing, playing and composing. Students will learn to read and write musical notation as well as participate in an ensemble. The course will emphasize music comprehension skills and analytical techniques by critiquing, creating and taking apart music from a broad spectrum of cultures and genres. Students will be exposed to music they have not heard before as well as become familiar with a host of tools necessary to comprehend and thoughtfully perform and critique a variety of different musics. This course is recommended for those interested in pursuing music as a minor or major. The course is a pre-requisite for MUSC 121 .
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 082 - Performance Workshop
The Music Program’s Performance Workshop offers music students instrumental study and performance opportunities outside of regular lessons. This class is perfect for incoming students who would like to begin performing in their first year of college or for students currently taking lessons who would like to enhance their performance skills. Students majoring in the performance track are strongly encouraged to take this course. All aesthetics and genres are taught, from classical and jazz to pop. Performers of all stripes are encouraged to enroll.
This class builds on important aspects of any training in performances such as cultivating repertoire, considering performance injury, practice techniques, mental focus, building instrumental technique, learning how to give, process and understand criticism and how to cultivate professionalism as a performing artist (resume building, cv building, how to take auditions, etc.)
Anticipated Terms Offered: every two years
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MUSC 091 - Improvisation and Aleatory
In this course, students will be immersed in both the theory and the practice of improvised, aleatoric, and open-form music, with a view to a variety of traditions but with a focus on post-WWII avant-garde and experimental Western musics. Students will compose an aleatoric piece, perform aleatoric compositions and freely improvised pieces, study a substantial repertoire of musical works and theoretical writings, and give a historical or theoretical presentation, leading up to a substantial final project.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: every two years
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MUSC 100 - Studying Music Historically and Critically
This course is designed to introduce music majors and minors to the historical and critical study of music. The course is required for all music majors and minors and is a prerequisite for other more specialized music history courses. The course surveys major style periods of Western music (Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern). Along the way, you will develop the knowledge base and the methodological tool-kit needed for more advanced coursework in music. We will study major works, that are representative of these style periods, and get to know and understand them though listening, analysis, criticism and contextual history. Over the course of the semester you will encounter and try out some of the major musicological approaches ranging from contextual cultural history, listening as analysis, critical interpretation, and music history as detective work. There is no formal prerequisite, but since the course is designed for students who anticipate majoring or minoring in music it is expected that students enrolling in the course will have some musical background and basic music-reading skills.
Prerequisites: MUSC 121 or permission
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 101 - Bach and Before: Studies in Music before 1750
This course explores European music from the Middle Ages through the Baroque period, or from the 10th century AD to ca. 1750. This broad swath of music history encompasses a fascinating variety of music: Gregorian Chant, Medieval polyphony, the Renaissance a capella style, the birth of opera, and the culminating achievements of the High Baroque.
Through a mix of listening, reading, discussion, and assignments of various types, the course explores how music evolved and participated in major cultural, historical and social transitions between the Middle Ages and the Age of Absolutism. Several final weeks of the semester are devoted to the greatest musical figure of the mid-18th century, Johann Sebastian Bach.
We will weave elements of cultural studies, historical and social context, and aesthetics into the mix. Themes will include the impact of new technologies on music (changing systems of music notation and rhythmic control, music printing, and instrument design), competing notions of music as order and/or emotion, and the performance of extreme states of emotion, tragedy and power in Baroque music.
Previous musical experience and the ability to read music are helpful, but not required. Curiosity about music and the willingness to listen deeply to a range of musical styles are, however, absolutely necessary.
Course Designation/Attribute: HP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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MUSC 102 - Music of the Classical and Romantic Periods
This course explores European music from the mid-18th century through the end of the 19th century. This era was in many ways a high point in the history of musical art and many of the greatest and most beloved composers were active during this time, including Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz, Chopin, Verdi, Wagner, Brahms and Mahler. Through a mix of listening, reading, discussion and various written assignments, students will develop an understanding of representative works by these composers, build a sense of the social and cultural contexts in which they worked, as well as sharpen their aesthetic appreciation of this music. Previous musical experience is helpful, but not required.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 104 - Music and Modernism in Society, 1885-1945
This course is an exploration of different roles played by classical music in modern culture between 1885 and 1945. This course is not a comprehensive survey; rather, it explores selected set of specific topics and context in some depth. By plunging into the often extreme aesthetic experience of 20th-century art music, we will get to know, appreciate and understand (and love!) works by a number of the major composers of the era. We will grapple with crucial issues of music and cultural politics, especially in the context of war and 20th-century totalitarianism. We will also focus on issues of ‘high’ and ‘low’ art, as well as representations of sexuality and gender in operas of the time. The course is designed to serve the need of music majors and minors as well as those of interested non-majors. We will, of course, deal very directly with music, but the intention is to do so in ways that do not exclude those who have little or no formal training in music. The essential prerequisites are a willingness to approach the music we address with open ears and mind and a desire to grapple with ideas and art.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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MUSC 119 - Hip Hop & Social Identity
Our identities come from our lived experiences. As hip hop is the expression of lived experience,it is also the expression of individual and shared identities. In this class, students will explore how hip hop, an art form originally from the Bronx, NY c. 1970, shapes and depicts various social identities. We will investigate how hip hop gives voice to an individual’s race, religion,ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. We will also question how a hip-hop artist’s self-expression intersects and merges with the identities of their listeners. A community-based learning project will allow students to both learn about and participate in their local hip hop scene of Worcester.
Prerequisites: Any MUSC course or MCA 101
Course Designation/Attribute: DI
Anticipated Terms Offered: Periodically
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MUSC 121 - Theory I: Principles of Tonal Analysis
Explores the system of tonal music commonly employed by composers of the 18th and early-19th centuries, as well as by composers of popular music today. This study, incorporating exercises, composition, analysis and performance, also examines the way students listen to music in general, thus leading to a deeper understanding of the musical process.
Corequisites: MUSC 004 or MUSC 005
Course Designation/Attribute: FA
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 122 - Tonal Analysis II: Form and Chromaticism
Extends the study of Western tonality to encompass more advanced techniques such as chromaticism and modulation. Culminates with late-19th-century chromaticism, which reveals both the extraordinary possibilities and ultimately the limitations of using the tonal system as an organizing force in music.
Prerequisites: MUSC 121 .
Corequisites: MUSC 004 or MUSC 005
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 125 - Musical Acoustics
Musical acoustics is an interdisciplinary study of the physical, perceptual, and cognitive character of musical sound-a unique blend of science and art. Topics include the elementary physics of vibrating systems, waves and wave motion; the human ear and its response; time- and frequency-domain analysis of sound; room acoustics and reverberation; and the acoustics of musical instruments-the human voice, strings, winds, and percussion. The emphasis will be on the practical aspects of acoustics in music making. The class meets as a lecture with a mandatory weekly hands-on laboratory.
Course Designation/Attribute: SP
Anticipated Terms Offered: -
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MUSC 127 - The Mediated Voice
The Mediated Voice uses an exploration of technological mediations of the human voice as the context for an introduction to foundational electronic music concepts and techniques. The voice is often referred to as the first instrument, and indeed, it is the one with which we are arguably all most familiar. However, despite this extreme familiarity and technical facility, it is also the one that most defies classification, theorizing, and technological reproduction. Through handson creative projects, technical research, scholarly work, and class discussions, we will explore what it means to have, to generate, to wield, and to manipulate a voice in modern society. Topics covered will include sonic cognition, linguistics, vocal performance techniques, speech reproduction and synthesis technologies, machine learning and artificial intelligence, accessibility and prosthesis, virtual digital assistants, the media, democracy and representation, and questions of identity, agency, embodiment, and exploitation.
Anticipated Terms Offered: bi anually
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MUSC 141 - Computers and Music
The computer is, arguably, the most distinctively contemporary musical instrument. A project-based and historically grounded introduction to the computer as a musical tool, this course covers a variety of technical topics such as multitrack digital recording and mixing, the fundamentals of sound synthesis, and digital signal processing. A series of cumulative technical assignments through the semester lead to a large composition project. A variety of musical repertoires will be studied through recordings and readings.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 142 - Recording Practice and Audio Art
Many following Brian Eno have observed that the recording studio is the musical “instrument” most characteristic of our time. The majority of the music we encounter is produced using its facilities, production techniques and aesthetics. In the first half of the semester, we’ll work with the industry standard digital audio workstation (DAW) ProTools to make a polished multitrack recording. This part of the class will introduce you to sound recording as a process and an art, and will also cover the supporting science and technology that makes it possible. In the second unit, you will be more composer than engineer. You will create a short composition in a “sound collage” style called musique concreté beginning with recordings of voices and software for processing and editing.
Prerequisites: MUSC 141 or permission of instructor.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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MUSC 151 - Jazz History
Studies the evolution of jazz style from its 19th-century beginnings to the present, styles covered include ragtime, Dixieland, swing, bop, progressive, cool, free-form and third-stream. Requires a research paper and a final exam.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every other year
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MUSC 153 - Jazz Theory & Style
In this course, students will explore the harmonic, melodic and rhythmic concepts, which serve as the backbone of traditional and modern Jazz theory. Topics will include, but is not limited to; modes, harmonic progressions, chord substitutions, chord scale relationships, intervallic melodic construction, rhythmic motivic development etc. Students will develop a working knowledge of each concept through a combination of improvisation exercises, ear training, style analysis, song arrangement and original composition.
Prerequisites: MUSC 121 or permission
Course Designation/Attribute: FA
Anticipated Terms Offered: fall 2015
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MUSC 170 - Clark Concert Choir
A chorus of 30 to 40 voices, the choir presents two major concerts each year on the Clark campus as well as in off-campus appearances.
Prerequisites: Audition required
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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MUSC 171 - Clark Chamber Chorus
This is a small, specialized singing group chosen from the larger Clark Concert Choir by the conductor.
Prerequisites: Audition required
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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