This course aims at relating advanced music theory to the compositional craft. Students will be assisted to apply their knowledge in a wide range of styles, both Western,
African and popular idioms, and to develop their personal compositional language, resulting in a larger original works.
In this course students learn about psychological methods and theory to interpret and understand musical behaviour, sounds and ideas. The interdisciplinary nature of the subject and its use of a wide
range of empirical approaches offers a unique perspective on music. The course examines the cognitive, social and biological basis of our ability to perceive, remember, appreciate and produce music.
This course is a continuation of MUD 334, deepening and enhancing students’ knowledge and skills in music technology, particularly digital music production procedures.
Students will engage in multi-track hard disk recording, digital audio editing, MIDI sequencing, and mastering.
The course provides students with a more advanced study of solo as well as ensemble performance techniques and also enhances students’ skills in the art of stage presentation. It educates students on the preparation of concert programmes. Students have the opportunity to examine solo rehearsal techniques. The course also assists students to play hymns in several keys as well as extemporize and decorate melodic and harmonic phrases.
Basically practitioners in GES and professionals from non-governmental organizations as well as the private sector. Candidates must have a good first degree, at least a Second Class (Hons.) degree from a recognized University or an analogous institution.
The course introduces students to an analytic view of language as a tool for communication, and also suggests ways of examining and comparing different methods used in teaching French as a foreign language.It provides an analytic introduction to various aspects bordering on language teaching and learning: the differences between the concepts of language acquisition and learning, inter-language, cognitive theories as they relate to foreign language learning in a multicultural environment and the intercultural dimension of teaching and learning. This course also introduces students to new approaches, that is, the thematic, comparative and contextualization approaches for teaching culture/civilization. Emphasis shall be laid on French culture and African Francophone culture(s).
