300 Chabot College 2024-2026 CREDIT COURSE LISTING, MUSIC HARMONY & MUSICIANSHIP Certificate of Achievement This certificate program offers specialized study in harmony and musicianship to help prepare students to teach, tutor and coach music fundamentals, harmony, musicianship and basic form analysis. Completion of this certificate indicates that the student is prepared to offer instruction in basic music theory, ear-training and sight- singing. The certificate may be pursued concurrently with the pursuit of the music AA-T degree program. Career Opportunities Music theory tutor and coach, Harmony and Musicianship tutor and coach, Ear-training & Sight-singing tutor and coach, Composer, Arranger, etc. Program Learning Outcomes 1. Examine music as a form of expression that reflects personal creativity as well as social, historical, political, religious and cultural changes and influences. 2. Examine and discuss music in relationship to other forms of human expression, including art, architecture, philosophy, religion, and politics. 3. Demonstrate proficiency in communication technologies for the purposes of research, composition, listening, performance, recording, and cross-discipline collaboration. Completion of the Harmony & Musicianship course sequence (MUSL 2A-D). MUSL 2A Harmony and Musicianship I 4 MUSL 2B Harmony and Musicianship II 4 MUSL 2C Harmony and Musicianship III 4 MUSL 2D Harmony and Musicianship IV 4 Total 16 JAZZ STUDIES Certificate of Achievement This certificate program offers specialized study in Jazz pedagogy and will prepare students for a career performing, private teaching, and coaching jazz fundamentals, harmony, and musicianship. Completion of this certificate indicates that the student is prepared to offer instruction in jazz pedagogy including improvisation. The certificate may be pursued concurrently with the pursuit of the AA-T degree program. Career Opportunities This certificate will prepare music students to succeed toward their educational goal and towards gainful employment in the workplace. Career opportunities in Jazz include being a private instructor, arranger, composer, contractor, as well as a performer. Program Learning Outcomes 1. Through analysis of characteristics of various historical periods, assess the aesthetic values in Jazz and the role Jazz plays in American culture. 2. Perform Jazz improvisations and analyze and Jazz solo transcriptions. 3. Compose and improvise jazz music appropriate to the style of the era. Jazz Theory Courses (6 units) MUSL 42A Jazz Theory I 3 MUSL 42B Jazz Theory II 3 Major Ensemble Jazz Courses (4 units) Complete a total of 4 semesters @ 1 unit each MUSP 15 Jazz Ensemble 1 MUSP 16 Jazz Orchestra 1 Small Ensemble Jazz Courses (4 units) Complete a total of 4 semesters @ 1 unit each MUSP 11A Fundamentals in Jazz Improvisation 1 MUSP 11B Jazz Combo 1 Jazz Piano Courses (2 units) MUSA 22A Jazz Piano and Musicianship I 1 MUSA 22B Jazz Piano and Musicianship II 1 Total 16 MUSIC PRODUCTION Certificate of Achievement The Certificate of Achievement in Music Production is designed for musicians and songwriters who want to develop their creative skills while learning how to use current technologies to make music. This is a hands-on certificate program in which students will be constantly required to make sounds, create music and work on their craft. Housed in the state-of-the-art Chabot College recording studio & technology lab, this program offers a streamlined, efficient pathway for emerging musicians to establish a solid foundation of technical and aesthetic knowledge to begin working in the largely freelance and project-based creative music industry. Career Opportunities Career opportunities for which this program would provide include, but are not limited to: music producer/composer, sound design, game audio, audio for visual media and performing musician from which labor market research shows is undersupply with an annual gap of about 589 students in the Bay region and 134 students in the East Bay Sub-Region. Career opportunities are largely freelance or project-based.
