This course prepares students to teach jazz combo, big band and improvisation in middle and high school. Students will learn the fundamentals of jazz performance, from instrumentation to setup to rehearsal techniques to concert planning. Additionally, students will learn the fundamentals of jazz improvisation, including jazz theory, ear training, scales, patterns and repertoire. By the end of the course students will have a reference binder that will cover all basic elements necessary to run a successful jazz program.

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This course is a graduate introduction to social injustice and inequality issues which create conditions that lead to unconscionable health disparities according to race, ethnicity, childhood experiences, gender, income, nationality, and other factors. This course explores the multi-faceted origins of health disparities clearly essential to effective and humane programs, policies, and systems. The course will also continuously examine how to translate theory into practice.

This course introduces concepts and techniques of television production through weekly lectures and lab meetings. Basic field camera concepts and techniques, as well as other video production information, are introduced in the lecture. Students will break up into lab groups where, under the supervision of their lab instructor, they produce a short program that puts the concept of the week to work.

The purpose of this course is to help musicians develop embodied understanding of the learning process of musical performance through participation in the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education. In short, students will learn how to effectively translate musical intentions into actions that lead to more dynamic and expressive music making. In each class, students will participate in gentle, verbally-guided movement sequences of Awareness Through Movement lessons that are designed to improve body awareness and efficiency of movement.

The purpose of this course is to provide you with an intense, accelerated overview of multi-species digestive and reproductive anatomy and physiology, nutrition, and production so that you will be prepared for enrollment in Animal Science 103 (Introduction to Animal Management). This course will also provide on-going review and support to aid in your success in Animal Science 103. Emphasis will be placed on the best evidence-based practices in regard to the maintenance, health, and welfare of companion, farm, aquatic, exotic, and laboratory animals.