1. Music & Systematic Musicology

Music 672 Introduction to Ethnomusicology. (General concepts of ethnomusicology applied to the study of different ways in which music has been used outside the Western European tradition of the fine arts.)

Music 679 Music Theory and Composition Senior Project. (Theory students: preparation of senior paper and presentation of paper.)

Music 826,827,282. (History of music theory.)

Music 838 Seminar in Music Perception. (Introductory survey in music cognition.)

Music 829: Seminar: Contemporary Theories of Music. (Past topics have included: Consonance & Dissonance; Research Approaches in Systematic Musicology; Music & Emotion.)

Individual Studies

Music 693 Individual Studies. (Individual study in specified problems in the field of music.)

Music H783 Honors Research. (Honors thesis.)

Music 839 Research Practicum in Music Perception. (Supervised research in music perception with review of relevant theoretical and methodological literature.)

Music 893 Individual Studies. (Individual research projects not connected with the dissertation.)

2. Computers, Computer Music & Programming

Music 636 Introduction to Electronic Music Synthesis. (Techniques of composition with electronic media, history, literature, and criticism, score preparation; principles of audio engineering; relationships to other communications media.)

Recommended programming languages:

(1) Perl,
(2) Awk,
(3) Java/C++

3. Statistics & Research Methods

From least mathematical to most mathematical, departments might be ranked: Dept. of Agricultural Education, Dept. of Education: Educational Policy and Leadership, Dept. of Psychology, Dept. of Statistics.

Ag Ed 885 Research Methods. (Principles and techniques of research appropriate for planning, conducting, and reporting research.)

Ag Ed 886 Research Design. (Development of effective design for research problems, including theory, models, and sampling.)

Ag Ed 887 Analysis and Interpretation of Data. (Application and interpretation of descriptive and inferential statistics for research.)

EEPL 785 Introduction to Inquiry, Principles, Strategies, & Techniques. (Introduction to inquiry strategies and their role in educational development.

EEPL 786 Introduction to Inquiry: Quantitative Methods. (An introduction to quantitative techniques.)

EEPL 807 Educational Survey Research Methods. (A study of the design principles, sampling, and data-gathering methods used in the conduct of eductional survey research.)

Psych 510 Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology. (Issues in experimental design and laboratory experiments.)

Psych 826 Statistics in Psychology. (Basic concepts of descriptive and inferential statistics; includes estimation, hypothesis testing, and introductory treatment of analysis of variance, correlation and regression, and non-parametric techniques.)

Stats 135 Elementary Statistics. (Introduction to probability and statistics, experiments, and sampling, data analysis and interpretation.)

Stats 145 Introduction to the Practice of Statistics. (Topics include probability, descriptive statistics, correlation, regression, design of experiments, sampling, estimation, and testing; emphasis on applications, statistical reasoning, and data analysis using statistical software.)

Stats 245 Introduction to Statistical Analysis. (Calculus-based introduction to data analysis, experimental design, sampling, probability, and inference.)

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