Two Fun Non-Major Music Courses for Spring Semester

For those musicians who are not music majors but would enjoy taking a class, these two courses offered in the Spring Semester of 2010 are fun and easy:

Rock N' Roll: A Social History (MUH 240)
Offered on Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:50 p.m. to 5:05 p.m., Rock N' Roll: A Social History studies the rise of rock music, its infiltration of many aspects of contemporary society, and its effects on the creation of “serious” music. For three credits, students will learn from Professor Sole on how to listen actively to music and talk about it using appropriate musical history vocabulary. Students will be asked for the majority of the course to heavily listen to rock n' roll samples. "I'm mostly looking forward to learning about the background of rock n' roll classics," said Aaron Pollack, 21, a rock n' roll fanatic who is registered for the class in the Spring.

Basic Keyboard Skills (MUA 104)
Offered Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:25 a.m. to 10:40 a.m., Professor Newlin covers basic piano keyboard skills. Because this two-credit course is specifically for non-music majors, no prior musical knowledge is required. Students will be given the chance to learn how to play piano at a beginning stage.