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COURSE REQUIREMENTS I. Attendance and Class Participation – 10% Your presence in class, both physically and mentally, is essential for satisfactory completion of the course. Material that is not covered in the readings will be presented in class, and the natural course of our class discussions will determine relevant topics that will appear on exams. Additional music and video will be presented in class, all of which are fundamental to properly understanding the music and concepts we cover. You are expected to be in class prepared to discuss the assigned reading for the day. Everyone is required to contribute to class discussions, and I will occasionally call on students in order to equalize participation. Please help create a positive environment by respecting your fellow students, their thoughts, and comments by paying attention and refraining from talking or other disruptive behavior. This applies to when I am talking as well. Eating is also not allowed in class. Laptops, iPads, and any other electronic device will not be permitted in class. I do not care to compete with Facebook, photos, email, or blogs. All notes will have to be taken in class by hand. Attendance policy: Excessive absences will hurt your chances of performing well in this course. If you need to miss class due to an injury or illness, you must speak with me no later than the following class with the reason for your excuse and documentation from the health center. More than two absences in the semester will affect your attendance/participation grade and any unexcused absence will have a detrimental affect on your grade. Serious illness/injury and other extenuating circumstances will be dealt with on an individual basis. If you miss class, it is your responsibility to get the notes from that day from another student. II. Written Assignment – (5%) – Due B3 (Sun. Jan. 29) One short written assignment will be handed in early in the semester that will be designed to engage you with some of the relevant issues related to popular music as they apply to music that you are familiar with. By thinking about how music in our own lives reflects some of the same issues we will encounter throughout the voyage, we will be better able to see some of the commonalities among diverse popular music genres and cultures of the world. Specific details about the assignment will be covered in class. III. Field Component – Paper and Presentation (10% each, 20% total) Every student will be required to complete two FDPs associated with this course and complete and paper and presentation on them for the class. The field component of this course will be an opportunity for students to engage some of the issues and topics discussed in class with their experiences with popular music in various ports. Details regarding the nature of the activities, investigations, and analysis will be covered specifically in class. Experiences in the field will also help build personal adaptability and ways to develop strategies for negotiating a variety of cultural, linguistic, and geographic contexts. Your field reports/papers will be approached as ethnographies and will incorporate a combination of course-related Faculty Directed Practica (FDP) and independent activities. Details about FDP’s and other port activities that can be used to satisfy the field component will be handed out separately. SEMS – Spring 2012 – Popular Musics of the World Syllabus, p. 2
REQUIRED FDPs: 1. CAP10: Experience Cape Town Hip Hop from the Inside – Fri. 2/24 (day 1) 1-5pm 2. CAP34: Jazz Music – Sat. 2/25 (day 2), 5-11:30pm FDP Paper/Presentation – both due on B11 (March 3) Due to the unavoidable situation that both FDPs are in the same port, this port will present a unique opportunity to conduct an in-depth, comparative study of two different genres of South African popular music. This project will draw upon both your experiences in the FDPs and material from course readings, discussions, and film viewings. This assignment will entail a written paper as well as an oral presentation with at least one media example supporting your presentation (i.e. audio or video example). Further details on field assignments will be distributed separately in class. ** Please note: Any student who fails to complete this course's required faculty-directed practica, either as stipulated on this syllabus or, if that is for some reason impossible, as worked out in advance with the instructor, may fail the course regardless of her or his performance in the rest of the course. Late assignments: Late assignments will be subject to a 5% penalty for each day they are late. If you have extenuating circumstances and anticipate that you will not be able to hand in an assignment on time, please contact me before the due date, and we can discuss the possibility of an extension. Extensions will not be given on the day the assignment is due. IV. Quizzes – 4 total (10% each, 40% total) Four quizzes will be given in the following classes: B7, B12, B16, and B20. These quizzes will test you on your knowledge of the material we have been covering in class and reading/listening assignments. These quizzes will also help prepare you for the comprehensive final exam. V. Final Exam – Sunday, April 29, time TBA (25%) A comprehensive final exam will be given to test your knowledge of material covered in class and in assigned readings for over the entire semester. Exams will consist of a combination of multiple choice and short answer questions, with a listening section that will cover assigned listening examples. Further information on exams will be covered in class. GRADING SCALE A (93-100), A- (90-92), B+ (87-89), B (83-86), B- (80-82), C+ (77-79), C (73-76), C- (70-72), D+ (67-69), D (63-66), D- (60-62), F (0-59) SAS policy dictates that you must receive a final grade of C or higher to receive credit for the course. ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT / UVA HONOR CODE Please be aware that all students are required to adhere to the University of Virginia Honor Code as described in the Voyager's Handbook. Any and all acts of academic misconduct, including cheating, turning in work that is not one’s own, and all forms of plagiarism, will be taken seriously and pursued according to UVA regulations. SEMS – Spring 2012 – Popular Musics of the World Syllabus, p. 3
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