Notes: Students who plan to take both DRAM 209 and DRAM 210 during the spring 2018 term are asked to contact scpa@ucalgary.ca for registration permissions.

Notes: Students who plan to take both DRAM 365 and DRAM 367 during the spring 2018 term are asked to contact scpa@ucalgary.ca for registration permissions. In this experiential, hands on learning class, we will explore full mask, half mask and clown, then develop characters to rove at the Children's International Theatre Festival. From there, we will delve into shadow theatre and puppetry. We will then adapt a children's book and present it to the on campus daycare. **Please make sure you are also registered for Drama 367**

Notes: This course will be an examination of the music, life, history, influence, and contributions of James Brown from his early life, early, middle, and late career, the highs and lows of his professional and personal life, through to his death in 2006. His music will be emphasized throughout. The objectives of this course are to develop students' listening skills, familiarize them with the details of James Brown's life in music, build understanding of the various musical styles and genres in which James Brown played a part, and to enable students to recognize key songs in Mr. Brown's repertoire.

Notes: Popular Music in the Age of the Producer. This course examines current trends of popular music, with a special focus on how hip-hop, pop, electronic, and rock musics are made. By focusing on key producers such as Max Martin (Taylor Swift, Adele, Justin Timberlake, Ariana Grande) and Dr. Dre (Eminem, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent), students will gain an understanding for how popular music is created and recorded in the studio. Furthermore, students will examine what this music says about our society by considering contemporary social issues.

Notes: Music in contemporary film today represents the most important point of contact for many people with the great symphonic musical traditions that underpin Western musical culture and also (for good and bad) serves as a primary point of contact for the music and culture of non-Western peoples. Films are also filled with popular music, and the intersection of music and image does important work in creating our image of ourselves as a people, giving us common references that are essential for a vibrant culture. The great irony of film music is that, for a long time and still in many cases, film scores were designed to be almost unheard. Music slips in and out of the narrative, usually without drawing our attention. It is for this reason that the early film composers were much maligned by their art music contemporaries. Even now, when the scholarly study of film music is relatively common, many people simply do not hear the wonderful things going on in the score. Therefore, we will begin by re-learning how to listen to film, how to hear what in places has been artfully concealed. Our focus will be on the music of Hollywood film, since its richness could never be exhausted by a single course. If you have interests in European cinema, Bollywood or other filmic traditions, you will get some exposure to them in this course and hopefully will feel inspired to look and listen to these films in a new and rewarding way.