Graduate Catalog: 2012-2013 - Alabama A&M University

pronunciation and enunciation of English, Italian,French, German, Latin and Afro-American Dialects.MUS 563 Advanced Woodwind BrassTechniques – Three semester hours.MUS 573 Advanced Woodwind Techniques –Three semester hours.MUS 583 Advanced Percussion Techniques –Three semester hoursMUS 593 Advanced String Techniques – Threesemester hours. Each of these courses is designed toinstruct and strengthen instrumental teachers inperformance, pedagogical skills, acoustics andliterature.MUS 610 Survey of Music Theory – Threesemester hours. A review of harmony and conceptsof form with a goal toward analysis, improving auralskills in the classroom and arranging.MUS 611 Analytical Techniques – Three semesterhours. An intensive examination of how musicalelements and concepts of sonata form are used inClassical and Romantic compositions. (Prerequisite:MUS 610)MUS 612 Analytical Techniques – Three Semesterhours. An intensive examination of how musicalelements and concepts of sonata form are used inClassical and Romantic compositions. (Prerequisite:MUS 610)MUS 620 Survey of Music History – Threesemester hours. A general survey of the History ofmusic from antiquity to the present.MUS 621 History of Musical Styles – Threesemester hours. An in-depth examination of musicfrom 1600 to 1860. (Prerequisite: MUS 620)APPLIED MUSIC – One semester hour each.Technique and literature stressed in accordance withthe student’s ability.MUS 533-534 - One hour VIOLINMUS 535-536 - One hour VIOLAMUS 537-538 - One hour CELLOMUS 539-540 - One hour DOUBLE BASSMUS 541–542 - One hour PIANOMUS 551-552 - One hour VOICEMUS 545-546 - One hour FLUTEMUS 547-548 - One hour OBOEMUS 547-548 - One hour SAXOPHONEMUS 571-572 - One hour CLARINETMUS559-560 - One hour FRENCH HORNMUS 561-562 - One hour TRUMPETMUS 583-584 - One hour TUBAMUS 589-590 -One hour TROMBONEMUS 581-582 - One hour PERCUSSIONNATURAL RESOURCESNRE 500 - Techniques for Teaching Horticulturein K-12 - Three semester hours. Provideshorticultural education as a supplement to generalscience and botany. Experiences with ornamentals,floriculture, fruits, vegetables and soil to improveunderstanding of nature and horticulture. Summer.NRE 501 - Floral and Garden CenterManagement - Three semester hours. Managementof garden centers, including financing, selection of alocation, design of the facilities, greenhouseconstruction, selection of plant materials, personnelmanagement, marketing, and maintenance of plantmaterials. Principles and practices of establishmentand management of a retail flower shop.(Prerequisite: NRE 101 or consent of instructor)Odd Spring.NRE 502 Scientific Writing - Three semesterhours. Preparation of scientific evidence for thethesis or dissertation or for publication in scientificjournals, parts of the scientific paper, graphical andtabular presentation of data, sources of funding tosupport research, writing research grants, theeditorial process, elements of style, and ethics(Prerequisite: ENG 304) Fall.NRE 503 Techniques for Land Judging - Threesemester hours. Fundamental principles of soilscience as related to land, differences in soils andtheir capabilities, methods of soil conservation and141