FOLK 25400 - Social History Of Rock And Roll

A survey of rock and roll music as a uniquely American art form, traced from its roots in Anglo- American folk and country music and African American gospel and blues through its sundry subsequent phases, each viewed within its defining aesthetic, sociocultural, historical, political, and techno-economic contexts.

Preparation for Course
P: Placement at or above ENGL 13100 (or Equivalent) and Exemption from or Completion of ENGL 15000.

Cr. 3.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Recognize and describe humanistic, historical, or artistic works or problems and patterns of the human experience.
2. Apply disciplinary methodologies, epistemologies, and traditions of the humanities and the arts, including the ability to distinguish primary and secondary sources.
3. Analyze and evaluate texts, objects, events, or ideas in their cultural, intellectual or historical contexts.
4. Analyze the concepts and principles of various types of humanistic or artistic expression.
5. Create, interpret, or reinterpret artistic and/or humanistic works through performance or criticism.
6. Develop arguments about forms of human agency or expression grounded in rational analysis and in an understanding of and respect for spatial, temporal, and cultural contexts.