Writing About Small Screen Sounds

Catalog description

MUS 313 is an advanced writing course intended for music majors and non-music majors who are interested in how the intersection of sound and image in screen media has been historicized, conceptualized, theorized, and analyzed in writing. This course explores how musicology and related fields have recently used writing in the study of audiovisual texts of small screen genres from television dramas to YouTube. Students examine the communicative potential and cultural meanings of what we see and what we hear in screen media through multiple modes of writing. AW. PA-1C.