PLA Portfolio Assessment Course Subjects

Sound

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Creative Sound Design   (FIL-300)   3 credits  

Course Description
This is a theoretical and practical course dealing with multi-layered sound. The major thrust of this course is to develop technical and aesthetic sensitivity to sound for its own sake, as well as the listening and production skills necessary for creative use of sound in any medium.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Articulate and demonstrate familiarity with sound production tools and techniques
• Assess effective use of those tools and techniques by providing examples and analysis of the examples provided.
• Demonstrate a facility for sound editing, placement and mixing techniques
• Demonstrate a familiarity for sound design techniques and their application
• Create a sound design project which demonstrates skill and deft application of techniques and aesthetics

 

Ultrasound Physics I   (ULS-211)   3 credits  

Course Description
A course that reviews relevant fundamental physics and mathematics as a prelude to the discussion of acoustical physics and physical principles of ultrasound. Modes of operation, imaging and display techniques that relate to high frequency sound production will be stressed.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Explain the basic physical principles of sound and the terms that describe sound (i.e. period, frequency, wavelength, etc.)
• Describe and explain echo production and the pulse-echo principle
• Describe and explain pulsed wave ultrasound and the terms that describe it (pulse duration, duty factor, SPL, etc.)
• Describe the relationship of power, intensity, and amplitude of sound as well as the relationship of decibel & intensity
• Describe the rate of attenuation in media and calculate attenuation in decibels
• Explain absorption, reflection (specular and non-specular) and the types of scattering
• Describe the relationship of the amplitude of an echo with the impedance difference and angle of insonation
• Define the term refraction and explain why it occurs
• Explain the types of scanning modes including A mode, B mode, M mode, Doppler, Real time, and B scan
• Define axial and lateral resolution and how to optimize both

 

Advanced Audio Production   (COM-324)   3 credits  

Course Description
The completion of major audio productions skills through active participation in challenging audio media productions. Audio for television, film, record production, and sound reinforcement will be covered.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Explain audio production as a communication concept
• Identify the audio production skills needed to actively participate in a major audio media production
• Discuss the differences and similarities of audio for television, film, and record production
• Discuss the concept of sound reinforcement

 

Technical Theater Production I   (THA-290)   3 credits  

Course Description
Study of the elements of scenery, costuming, make-up, sound and lighting.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Scenic styles of play production;
• Set design and construction;
• Makeup design and application;
• lighting design and operation;
• Sound design and operation.

 

Writing Poetry I   (ENG-243)   3 credits  

Course Description
The student will be able to demonstrate knowledge of fundamental poetry writing techniques including the use rhythm, rhyme, non-rhyme, meter (units of rhyme), sound metaphor, simile, arrangement, and order as well as rhyming verse, blank verse.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Write several poems demonstrating the use of fundamental poetry writing techniques.
• Illustrate in these poems the use of accepted practices in poetry writing including rhythm, rhyme, meter, non-rhyme, sound, metaphor, image, simile, order, and arrangement in one or more poems.
• Illustrate in these poems a variety of poetic forms including rhyming verse, blank verse, free verse, haiku, heroic couplets, the sonnet, the ode, the elegy, the pastoral, satiric verse, didactic verse, etc.
• Describe and illustrate with examples how a poet expresses feelings, thoughts and perceptions through concrete images.
• Discuss how content, form, and the overall effect of the poem are developed through the use of emotions, the imagination, ideas, meaning, sentiment, passion, power, sense expression, interpretation, beauty, dignity, freshness of expression, orderly arrangement, concreteness, and pleasure and provide illustrations with the poems you have written.
• Compare and contrast two or more of the poems you have written discussing the considerations and choices made during the writing process.

 

Film Editing I   (FIL-391)   3 credits  

Course Description
A specialized craft course in practical editing and equipment use, rather than aesthetics, covering the total postproduction experience; basic sound and visual cutting in the assembly, the rough cut, the fine cut; music cutting; A and B rolling; preparing for the mix; mixing; answer prints; through to the release print.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Demonstrate familiarity with editing term, concepts and ideas
• Display a body of work in editing and evidence of professional expertise
• Discuss and analyze editing choices made and be able to identify his own style.

 

Basic Sight-Singing and Ear Training I   (MUS-111)   3 credits  

Course Description
Review of music rudiments, aural recognition of melodic and harmonic components, and intensive sight-singing activities, using both fixed and movable "Do".

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Sing the following scales: major, three forms of minor (natural, harmonic, melodic), using fixed "do", in every key (sing major, then parallel minor scales)
• Sing the following intervals: all simple intervals up to an octave, both up and down, fixed do syllables
• Sing a chromatic scale ascending with sharps, descending with flats, with fixed do inflections for sharps and flats (ascending: do, di, re, ri, mi, fa, fi, sol, si, la, li, ti do; descending: do, ti, te, la, le, sol, se, fa, mi, me, re, ra, do). All "i" inflections sound like-"Di" and "fi" sound like dee and fee; All "e" inflctions sound like- "me" and "le" sounds like may and lay
• Sing and be able to identify the four basic triads: diminished, minor, major, augmented, on different pitches with fixed do
• Sing a simple melody from a score in either treble or bass clef, using correct key and time signatures
• Clap simple meters with various subdivisions of the beat, and be able to "ta" rhythms while conducting correct pattern for duple, triple, or quadruple meters
• Write basic scales, intervals, triads, simple melodies when heard in both treble and bass clefs
• Identify key and mode of items sung or dictated, using correct key signatures
• Identify home (tonic) key in melodies sung or dictated.

 

Introduction to Logic   (PHI-120)   3 credits  

Course Description
A study of reasoning and its role in science and everyday life, with special attention to the development of a system of symbolic logic, to probabilistic reasoning, and to problems in decision theory.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Define important logical terminology such as valid, invalid, sound, unsound, consistent, inconsistent, contingent, theorem, tautology
• Identify premises, conclusions and the structures of deductive and inductive arguments
• assess and formulate arguments using deductive and inductive analysis
• identify the components of arguments.
• Identify the correct logical inferences.
• identify and recognize hidden inference assumptions
• Identify relevant secondary questions, while answering the principal question.
• Identify inconsistencies in information and assumptions, while evaluating an argument
• Create proofs using symbolic logic.
• Analyze arguments for consistency, validity, completeness and soundness.
• Discuss the logical definition of argument and the difference between a sound argument and a valid argument.
• Identify and define the various types of fallacies
• Construct new logically sound arguments.
• Translate English statements in to the language of symbolic logic.
• Translate statements in symbolic logic into English.
• Use semantic tables to analyze the logical implications and validity of statements in the language of symbolic logic
• Explain the connections between symbolic logic and other branches of science and mathematics.
• Construct proofs in formal systems for sentential logic and predicate logic
• Discuss the application of decision theory in problem solving.

 

Personal Fitness   (PYT-161)   3 credits  

Students are provided an opportunity to assess their current level of health-related fitness and develop a physiologically sound program of physical activity to meet their needs and interests. Emphasis is on the concept of physical fitness as a lifetime commitment, and stressing the acquisition of specific knowledge, skill and motivation necessary to meet this commitment. 

Real Estate Property Management   (REE-341)   3 credits  

Course Description
The course is designed to provide the student with knowledge and skills necessary to manage simple income producing property. Topics include utilizing sound accounting and reporting principles in a property management business, securing, qualifying, and contracting with tenants and leases; determining rentals, merchandising space, collecting rent, tenant relations, and property maintenance.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

• Ownership development and management
• Rental and leasing
• The Management Plan
• Financial reporting
• Residential management
• Foreclosure, receivership and other current topics.

 

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