COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMATIC MUSICOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MBS 3007 INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMATIC MUSICOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Music Sciences

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ALI CENK GEDIK

Offered to

Music Sciences
Musicology

Course Objective

This course aims to provide students the history and content of systematic musicology and its parent and subdisciplines and related interdisciplinary fileds and introduces their methods and thechniques, basically.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Define systematic musicology within the context of its historical and current disciplinary structures,
2   Explain the theoretical and applicational differences of systematic musicology from the historical musicology and ethnomusicology,
3   Explain the theory, method and techniques of systematic musicology basically,
4   Explain the opportunities of systematic musicology which provide solutions to the epistemological problems occured in interdisciplinary music research,
5   Present the results of a research on one of the domains of systematic musicology in written and orally.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Historical fundamentals of systematic musicology
2 Epistemological background of systematic musicology
3 Parent and sub-disciplines of systematic musicology
4 Interdisciplinary music research
5 Music and Mathematics
6 Biology of music
7 Psychology of music
8 Neuroscience of music
9 Music and and Computer science
10 Midterm exam
11 Music and Audio Signal Processing
12 Student Presentations
13 Student Presentations
14 Student Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Text Book(s)/Required Readings:
Parncutt, Richard. 2007. Systematic musicology and the history and future of Western musical scholarship, Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, 1, 1-32.
Parncutt, Richard & Gedik, Ali Cenk. 2008. Interdisciplinarity in JIMS, Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, http://www.musicstudies.org/infor.html
Schneider, Albrecht. 2006. Comparative and Systematic Musicology in Relation to Ethnomusicology: A Historical and Methodological Survey, Ethnomusicology, Vol. 50, No. 2, , pp. 236-258
Leman, Marc. 2008. Systematic musicology at the crossroads of modern music research, In Schneider, A. (Ed.), Systematic and Comparative Musicology: Concepts, Methods, Findings. Hamburger Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft, 24. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 89-115.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Courses
The course are given as theoretical. Lecturer presents the the theory, method and techniques of systematic musicology basically and lead discussions to be hold by the students on the topics.
2. Quiz
Reading assignments given before specific lectures are checked by quizes.
3. Assignments
Assignments either individual or collective consist of written discussions of specific researches wtihin systematic musicology.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 ATT ATTENDANCE
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.30 + ATT * 0.10 + FIN * 0.30
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.30 + ATT * 0.10 + RST * 0.30


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Attendance to 70 % of lectures is compulsory.
2. Every kind of plagiarism is subject to official investigation
3. Deadline of assignments and presentations should be strictly followed.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Tel: 232 412 92 08
e-mail: ali.gedik@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday: 13.30-16.00
Friday: 13.30-16.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 8 8
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Midterm 1 3 3
Quiz etc. 4 1 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 74

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO
LO.1
LO.2
LO.3
LO.4
LO.5

CONTACT INFORMATION
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Cumhuriyet Bulvarı No: 144 35210 Alsancak / İZMİR
Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

Copyright 2015 DEÜ. BİD

HOME / ABOUT US / DEGREE PROGRAMMES / GENERAL INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS