<p>I don't know if this is still relevant but on the wiki Columbia website it said that 4 semesters of a foreign language are required. I'm okay with all the others, but I really would hate to keep on taking Spanish or any other language personally. (Dios no lo quiera! LOL) </p>
<p>If one got a 4 or 5 on AP Spanish junior year, and took one or two spanish electives senior year, could that replace the foreign language requirement. And I had though that it was art OR music, not both? So which one is it? Thanks again!<br>
<em>yes, i have ton's of questions...hehehehe</em></p>
<p>CC is both art and music, seas is either, you can take a placement test and they will decide your level, if you've taken a lot of spanish i think you can place out of it relatively easily</p>
<p>oh i see. quick question then. for someone with no experience in music (except for middle school chorus LOL), how hard is the music humanities course? Is it really boring, or is it the type of class that does make you open up to that field as well? </p>
<p>oh and skraylor, i just happened to find that link right after posting this thread. lol thanks!</p>
<p>cool. what is it then? knowing all the composers and stuff? and in ur candid opinion (assuming that you have taken it already) was the class at all interesting or the less appealing aspect of the core?</p>
<p>i haven't taken it but i can tell you what i have heard from other ppl...</p>
<p>it's partly composers but it's also partly being able to identify and differentiate styles of music (for instance baroque from classical from romantic) and knowing the different things that make those styles what they are</p>
<p>think of it like history of art but for music</p>
<p>from what i've heard, it's a good class in theory but, like most of the core, it really depends on your rec leader. unlike art hum tho, i've heard about 80% of the sections tend to suck... try <a href="http://www.culpa.info%5B/url%5D">www.culpa.info</a> for more info</p>
<p>i HAVE taken music hum and skraylor is right...it is pretty much the history of music and it does totally depend on your teacher. When i started out i was in a class where the teacher was boring and dry and i practically slept through half of the first and second classes. But (thankfully) a scheduling conflict came up and i petitioned to switch sections and ended up in an awesome section with an awesome teacher who was vibrant and lively and very passionate and I had a great time in music hum. The workload also completely depends on your teacher, they only get guidelines from the department and are free to do as they wish. For instance in my class we didnt have to write a single paper...all we had to do were assignments from the book, listening quizzes, midterm and final while most classes have to write at least one paper in addition to all the other stuff.</p>
<p>history of western music. they don't bother with anything from the far east, africa, south america, etc. Frankly, as a classical pianist, I was 100% fine with that, those styles don't really influence anything we hear today. But if you've listened to enough classical, you can hear its influence on everything on the radio. Melodic structure, overall song structure, our familiarity with 4-beat and 3-beat time, and a lot of texture choices. The instruments may be different (or used differently) and there may be a lot more words these days, but western music is what's important for an educated person to have an awareness of.</p>
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