AMU4M COURSE OUTLINE

Course Title: Music

Grade: 12

Ministry Course Code: AMU4M

Course Type: University/College Preparation

Credit Value: 1.00

Course Hours: 110

Department: The Arts

Revision Date: N/A

Policy Document: The Arts, The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 11 and 12, 2010 (Revisedhttp://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/secondary/arts1112curr2010.pdf

Domestic Student Price: $550
International Student Price: $799

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course enables students to enhance their musical literacy through the creation, appreciation, analysis, and performance of music. Students will perform traditional, commercial, and art music, and will respond with insight to live and recorded performances. Students will enhance their understanding of the function of music in society and the impact of music on themselves and various communities and cultures. Students will analyse how to apply skills developed in music to their life and careers.

OVERALL EXPECTATIONS

Creating & Performing

By the end of this course, students will:

A1. The Creative Process: apply the stages of the creative process when performing notated and/or improvised music and composing and/or arranging music;

A2. The Elements of Music: apply the elements of music when performing notated and improvised music and composing and/or arranging music;

A3. Techniques and Technologies: use a range of techniques and technological tools in a variety of applications related to music.

Reflecting, Responding & Analysing

By the end of this course, students will:

B1. The Critical Analysis Process: use the critical analysis process when responding to, analysing, reflecting on, and interpreting music;

B2. Music and Society: demonstrate an understanding of social and cultural influences on and effects and functions of traditional, commercial, and art music;

B3. Skills and Personal Growth: demonstrate an understanding of how performing, creating, and critically analysing music has affected their skills and personal development;

B4. Connections Beyond the Classroom: assess opportunities and requirements for continued engagement in music.

Foundations

By the end of this course, students will:

C1. Theory and Terminology: demonstrate an understanding of music theory with respect to concepts of notation and the elements and other components of music, and use appropriate terminology relating to them;

C2. Characteristics and Development of Musical Forms: demonstrate an understanding of the origins, development, and characteristics of various forms of music;

C3. Conventions and Responsible Practices: demonstrate an understanding of conventions and responsible practices relating to music.

OUTLINE OF COURSE CONTENT

TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES

A variety of teaching and learning strategies are used to allow students many opportunities to attain the necessary skills for success in this course and in future studies. In all activities, consideration will be taken to ensure that individual students’ multiple intelligences and learning strengths are addressed through the use of varied and multiple activities in each lesson.

STRATEGIES FOR ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE

The primary purpose of assessment and evaluation is to improve student learning. Assessment and evaluation is based on the Ministry of Education’s Growing Success policy document, which articulates the Ministry’s vision for how assessment and evaluation is practiced in Ontario schools.

Growing Success describes the three assessment types as follows:

Assessment as Learning: focuses on the explicit fostering of students’ capacity over time to be their own best assessors, but teachers need to start by presenting and modelling external, structured opportunities for students to assess themselves.
Assessment for Learning: the process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and their teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go, and how best to get there.
Assessment of Learning: the assessment that becomes public and results in statements or symbols about how well students are learning.

ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION

EVALUATION SCHEME

A final grade (percentage mark) is calculated at the end of the course and reflects the quality of the student’s achievement of the overall expectations of the course, in accordance with the provincial curriculum.

The final grade will be determined as follows:

Seventy percent (70%) of the grade will be based on evaluation conducted throughout the course. This portion of the grade should reflect the student’s most consistent level of achievement throughout the course, although special consideration should be given to more recent evidence of achievement.
Thirty percent (30%) of the grade will be based on a final evaluation administered at or towards the end of the course. This evaluation will be based on evidence from one or a combination of the following: an examination, a performance, an essay, and/or another method of evaluation suitable to the course content. The final evaluation allows the student an opportunity to demonstrate comprehensive achievement of the overall expectations for the course.

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is a serious offense. It is defined as taking words, phrasing, sentence structure, or any other element of the expression of another person’s ideas, and using them as if they were your own. Plagiarism is a violation of another person’s rights, whether the material taken is great or small.Students will be assisted in developing strategies and techniques to avoid plagiarism. They need to be aware that plagiarized term work will be penalized and could result in a mark of zero.