May 08, 2025  
Rensselaer Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Rensselaer Catalog 2024-2025
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ARTS 2570 - Music, Sound, & the Environment


This course addresses relationships among society, culture, the more-than-human world, and the environment. We explore the diverse and interconnected ways in which contemporary composers, popular musicians, sound artists, and global music practices draw on natural and built environments to comment on current environmental and energy issues, articulate relationships among the arts, humanities, and science and technology studies, represent past, present and future environments, and engage in social activism. In this course, music is approached as artistic expression as well as a form of knowledge that can heighten our sensitivity and awareness of the environment, incorporating reading and writing assignments, and individual and group creative projects. 

 

When Offered: Fall or spring term annually

Credit Hours: 4



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