MTH 390/490 Independent Study One to Three hours

Prerequisite: Major or minor in mathematics with a last semester junior standing; 2.5 overall grade average, 2.80 in mathematics.

Introduces the student to the personal challenges and competencies that are critical for effective leadership. The student will learn how the personal development of life skills such as goal setting, time management, physical fitness, and stress management relate to leadership, officership, and the Army profession.

Overviews leadership fundamentals such as setting direction, problem-solving, listening, presenting briefs, providing feedback, and using effective writing skills. The student will explore dimensions of leadership values, attributes, skills, and actions in the context of practical, hands-on, and interactive exercises.

Explores the dimensions of creative and innovative tactical leadership strategies and styles by examining team dynamics and two historical leadership theories that form the basis of the Army leadership framework. Aspects of personal motivation and team building are practiced planning, executing and assessing team exercises and participating in leadership labs.

The focus continues to build on developing knowledge of the leadership values and attributes through understanding Army rank, structure, and duties as well as broadening knowledge of land navigation and squad tactics. Case studies will provide a tangible context for learning the Soldier’s Creed and Warrior Ethos as they apply in the contemporary operating environment.

MSL 202 Foundations of Tactical Leadership Three hours

Examines the challenges of leading tactical teams in the complex contemporary operating environment (COE). This course highlights dimensions of terrain analysis, patrolling, and operation orders. Continued study of the theoretical basis of the Army leadership framework explores the dynamics of adaptive leadership in the context of military operations.

MSL 202 provides a smooth transition into MSL 301. Cadets develop greater self awareness as they assess their own leadership styles and practice communication and team building skills. COE case studies give insight into the importance and practice of teamwork and tactics in real-world scenarios.
MSL 301 Adaptive Team Leadership Three hours

The student is challenged to study, practice, and evaluate adaptive team leadership skills as he or she is presented with the demands of the ROTC Leader Development and Assessment Course (LDAC). Challenging scenarios related to small unit tactical operations are used to develop self awareness and critical thinking skills. Systematic and specific feedback on leadership abilities will be given.

You will be challenged to study, practice, and evaluate adaptive leadership skills as you are presented with the demands of the ROTC Leader Development Assessment Course (LDAC). Challenging scenarios related to small unit tactical operations are used to develop self awareness and critical thinking skills. Systematic and specific feedback on leadership abilities will be given.

Develops student proficiency in planning, executing, and assessing complex operations, functioning as a member of a staff, and providing performance feedback to subordinates. You are given situational opportunities to assess risk, make ethical decisions, and lead fellow ROTC cadets. Lessons on military justice and personnel processes prepare you to make the transition to becoming an Army officer.

During your MSL IV year, you will lead cadets at lower levels. Both your classroom and battalion leadership experiences are designed to prepare you for your first unit of assignment. You will identify responsibilities of key staff, coordinate staff roles, and use battalion operations situations to teach, train, and develop subordinates.

MSL 402 Leadership in a Complex World Four hours

Explores the dynamics of leading in the complex situations of current military operations in the contemporary operating environment (COE). You will examine differences in customs and courtesies, military law, principles of war, and rules of engagement in the face of international terrorism. You also explore aspects of interacting with non-government organizations, civilians on the battlefield, and host nation support.

The Leader’s Training Course experience is a unique four-week opportunity to develop new skills, to grow personally, and to qualify for enrollment in Army ROTC. The Leader’s Training Course is a 28-day leadership development program that will instill self-confidence and provide leadership skills for life.

This is a six-hour Leader Development and Assessment elective course. It is an intensive five-week summer field course to be taken between the junior and senior year. Prerequisites: MSL 301 and MSL 302.

Open to all students without audition. Large choral works are performed. Meets two hours a week. Fall and spring semesters.

The Percussion Ensemble is a percussion performing group designed to provide instruction and experience in percussion ensemble music. The repertoire includes original 20^th century composition, ragtime, orchestral transcriptions, and percussion music from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Meets three hours per week. Fall and spring semesters.

The University Chorale is a mixed choir built along professional standards to represent Campbellsville University off campus and for special events on campus. The choir studies and performs choral literature from all periods, with emphasis on sacred anthem literature. Membership by audition. Meets three hours each week. Fall and spring semesters.

This ensemble focuses on the rehearsal and performance of literature within the repertoire for string chamber ensemble and full orchestra. Instrumentation is flexible depending on membership. Music will be chosen from the complete spectrum of orchestral literature including Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary styles. Membership is open to all students. Fall and spring semesters.

The Marching Band consists of standard woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments complemented by color guard. Performances include football games, contest exhibitions, parades, and pep rallies. Membership is open to all students. Color guard and drum line members are chosen through tryouts. Meets a maximum of seven hours per week. Fall semester.

Music performed will include sacred and secular from various musical periods, utilizing arrangements and original compositions. Previous study or experience required. Audition is the basis for membership. Purchase of gloves necessary. Meets three times each week. Fall and spring semesters.

The Concert Band performs a wide variety of literature including standard band works, music from the musical theater, and orchestral transcriptions. Membership is open to all students. Meets three hours per week. Spring.

The Jazz Ensemble is an instrumental performing group designed to provide instruction and experience in Jazz and popular music. Jazz style and improvisation will be stressed. Membership by audition. Meets three hours per week. Fall and spring semesters.

This ensemble provides an opportunity for students to participate on a regular basis in some performance-oriented ensemble other than the traditional bands. On demand.

This ensemble provides an opportunity for students to participate in performance-oriented chamber ensembles of woodwind instruments including woodwind quintet, flute choir, clarinet choir, and saxophone ensemble. On demand.

The Chamber Choir is a small choral ensemble selected from the membership of the University Chorale. It prepares repertoire that normally would be beyond the scope of either Concert Chorus or University Chorale, including early music, medium-length choral works from all periods, contemporary classical music, and secular music (including popular styles). Membership in Chamber Choir is by invitation or audition. Meets two hours per week. Fall and spring semesters.

This ensemble is designed to expose students to operatic singing, acting, techniques for make-up, costuming, set design and construction, and other aspects of opera production. The class will present a fully staged opera or a selection of opera scenes. Membership is open to all students. Fall.

The Wind Ensemble is an auditioned performance-based ensemble that performs the highest-level literature of the wind band medium. This course offers the opportunity to study sophisticated literature in an advanced and mature ensemble setting. Membership is open to students and non-students by audition. Spring.

The objective of the ensemble is to expand the student’s performance ability and knowledge of flute ensemble repertoire, as well as the student’s growth as a musician. This will be accomplished through a daily practice routine by the student and weekly ensemble rehearsals. Fall and spring semesters.

This ensemble focuses on the rehearsal and performance of literature within the string chamber music idiom. Instrumentation is flexible depending on the number of string players available each semester.

An introduction to music theory: notation, scales, key signatures, intervals, triads, sight-singing, and ear-training. This course may be recommended as a prerequisite to Music Theory I on the basis of diagnostic exam scores. Counts as general elective only. Fall, spring semesters.

Musical notation, scales, transposition, basic acoustics; harmonic, melodic, and structural analysis; partwriting and principles of diatonic harmony; sight-singing, ear-training, and keyboard harmony. Five hours a week. Fall semester.

Continuation of above, plus seventh chords, modulation, secondary dominants, structured compositional projects. Prerequisite: MUS 101. Five hours a week. Spring semester.

A survey of important works by outstanding composers of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classic periods. Non-music majors may enroll with consent of instructor. Fall semester.

Continuation of 121 from the Romantic period to the present, and includes non-Western music. Non-music majors may enroll with consent of instructor. Spring semester.

An introductory course for non-music students, Understanding Music investigates the purposes and functions of music in our own western culture and in other cultures. It also provides the student with “tools” to enable critical listening to and understanding of music in a wide variety of styles. Fall and spring semesters.

For beginners. Basic chords, basic strumming and finger picking styles. Simple song accompaniments and guitar solos. Fall semester.

For students who know the basics. Emphasis on bar chords and note reading. Song accompaniments, guitar solos and, ensembles. Spring semester.

For ringers with no previous experience. Ringing and damping techniques, appropriate literature, care and handling of handbells. One semester of Handbell Class may be substituted for Handbell Choir with consent of instructor. Meets two hours a week. Spring semester.

Group instruction in fundamentals of vocal production and technique for students without previous experience in voice. On demand.

More advanced group instruction. On demand.

Beginning piano instruction in a group setting introducing fundamental skills for keyboard proficiency. Study includes technique, harmonization, and beginning literature at a progressive level of development. Classes are divided between music majors/minors and non-music students. Fall and spring semester.

A continuation of MUS 145. Prerequisite: Music 145 or faculty consent. Fall and spring semesters.

Continuation of Theory II, plus borrowed chords, 9th 11th, and 13th chords, the Neapolitan, augmented sixth chords. Prerequisite: MUS 102. Five hours a week. Fall semester.

Continuation of above, plus altered dominants, chromatic mediants, 20th century techniques. Prerequisite: MUS 201. Five hours a week. Spring semester.

A systematic investigation into the historical and philosophical foundations of music education as well as the study of music education curriculum development and evaluation. Fall semester, odd-numbered years.

Elementary group instruction of a practical nature is given to students of the woodwind instruments. Correct tone production, technique and care of the woodwind instruments with considerable attention devoted to embouchure and fingering problems of each instrument. Suitable materials for public school use are evaluated. Two hours a week. Fall semester, even-numbered years.

Practical elementary class instruction is given to students on the instruments of the brass family with considerable attention devoted to correct tone production, technique, and care of the brass instruments. Critical examination of materials appropriate for use in public schools is included. Two hours a week. Spring semester, odd-numbered years.

Elementary group instruction. The study and application of the fundamentals of playing stringed instruments including correct tone production, bowing, technique, and care of the instruments. Materials applicable for public school purposes are critically examined. Two hours a week. Fall semester, odd-numbered years.

Practical class instruction is given to students on the various percussion instruments, which will include snare drum, accessory percussion instruments and the care of the instruments. Materials applicable for public school use are evaluated. Two hours a week. Spring semester, even-numbered years.

Second year of group piano instruction. Continued development of keyboard skills and proficiency. Prerequisite: MUS 146 or consent of instructor. Fall and spring semesters.

Continuation of MUS 245. Prerequisite: MUS 245 or consent of instructor. Fall and spring semesters.

This course is designed for teachers who have applied majors in voice and keyboard. Students are given hands-on experience with each instrument family, but the emphasis is on dealing with rehearsal and performance problems. On demand.

A study in application through composition and analysis of 18th C. counterpoint. Prerequisite: MUS 202. Spring, odd-numbered years.

A study of instruments of the band and orchestra with regard to range, tone quality, and appropriate use in instrumental ensembles, including practice in arranging. Prerequisite: MUS 202. Spring, even-numbered years.

Principles and practices of arranging music for choral groups with emphasis upon producing useable arrangement. Prerequisite: MUS 202. Spring.

A historical study of twentieth century jazz music in America via scales, chords, and harmonic progressions with an emphasis on performance applications to traditional jazz band instrumentation: sax, trumpet, trombone, and rhythm section. Also a study of jazz band chart reading and a basic understanding of keyboard voicings and scoring for combos and big bands. On demand.

A study of the history of music in Western cultures beginning with the rise of West Asian and East Mediterranean music and extending to the time of Haydn. The course is designed to establish a working knowledge of the development of musical styles and their historical importance. Prerequisites: MUS 121; MUS 122. Fall.

A study of the history of music in Western cultures from the time of Haydn to the present day. Continuation of study in MUS 321. Prerequisites: MUS 121; MUS 122. Spring.

A survey of the standard sacred choral literature from various historical periods. Prerequisites: MUS 121; MUS 122. Spring, even-numbered years.

A survey of the role of music in non-Western cultures and major stylistic trends in musical development throughout the world. The course serves as an introduction to the discipline of ethnomusicology and the study of music as human behavior. Prerequisite: Knowledge of music fundamentals, or consent of instructor. Spring, on demand.

The aim of this course is to present a survey of materials and methods in teaching music in the elementary grades for music education. The different phases of public school music such as singing, listening, rhythms, and creating music are studied. Music education majors and elementary education majors who are pursuing a music minor should take this course as substitute for MUS 347. Fall, even-numbered years.

Designed as an in-depth study of music education for the middle school. The nature and problems of middle school students will be investigated with the development of a compendium of materials and methods. Mini-lessons will be developed and taught by each student. Observations in local schools required. Special education, and talented and gifted programs examined. Spring, odd-numbered years.

This course deals with the general program for senior high school as well as choral music education problems and practices. Methods and materials of each will be investigated and collected. Some practicum required. Spring, even-numbered years.

This course gives attention to basic conducting skills with a choral emphasis. Attention also to rehearsal techniques, styles, etc. Video tape used extensively. Prerequisite: MUS 202 or consent of instructor. Fall.

This course is a continuation of MUS 343 with added unique techniques of instrumental conducting. Laboratory and observation experiences will be scheduled. Prerequisite: MUS 343. Spring.

A study of the nature of accompanying at the piano and the many problems inherent to ensemble performance. This course may be taken to complete the requirements for a minor in piano upon completion of the piano proficiency requirement. With consent of instructor. On demand.

For the elementary education major, this course is designed to combine fundamentals of music with the methods of music education for the elementary classroom (P-4). Laboratory experiences are included. Music majors should take MUS 340. Fall, summer.

A brief examination of the philosophy of church music and the development and administration of the music ministry in the local church. Fall, odd-numbered years.

The study of the development of hymnology and the gospel song from Biblical times to contemporary hymnody, considering the hymn as literature, the music value of the tune, and the relation of hymnodic development to the parallel periods of the history of music. Fall.

Materials and methods of organizing and training children through the music ministry. Problems of the child’s voice, development, and various activities will be studied. Fall, even-numbered years.