|
CAM CAP |
||||
|
College of
Arts & Media Cooperative Assessment Project |
||||
|
|
||||
|
About the Project
◊ Summary The College of Arts & Media (CAM) at the University of Colorado at Denver is developing programmatic level digital assessment portfolio projects and senior student digital capstone portfolio projects in the departments of Music & Entertainment Industry Studies (MEIS), Theatre, Film and Video Production (T/F/VP), and Visual Arts (VA). These development projects are supported by CU's Center for Innovations in Teaching and Technology and by the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Technology (CiTT) at the University of Colorado at Denver, directed by Scott Grabinger. The CAM and MEIS CAP projects leader is Judith Coe. The CAM capstone senior student portfolio project will assist the College in moving to a more comprehensive electronic assessment program, through research and development of a suitable means for implementing a more comprehensive digital portfolio program associated with the senior capstone experience in all College degree programs. The MEIS project is a web-based package that will demonstrate program area competency, accountability, and efforts to improve current practices in the Performance Area of MEIS, with targeted deployment for late Spring 2004. ◊ Background The Music & Entertainment Industry Studies Department recognizes that the assessment practices already in place for classical music performance may not be appropriate to assess popular/commercial music performance. A classical approach to music is one based on the notion of universal standards of excellence. What is judged as high quality or good within the classical musical style may not be regarded as being so in popular/commercial music, and vice versa. The classical singing voice, to use one example, can be related to instrumental techniques and standards of aesthetics and beauty of tone production within that style. However, popular/commercial music performance has its own range of assorted techniques, many of which are neither found nor practiced in the classical style (with the exception of some experimental and electroacoustic vocal systems), e.g., scatting, growling, speaking, whistling, whispering, and bending or smearing notes. Additionally, approaches to performance vary, as well, between discrete popular/commercial styles. ◊ Description Increasing student demand for applied performance instruction and courses in popular/commercial music in higher education has encouraged traditional music departments to develop performance degree programs and popular/commercial music courses. MEIS is committed to providing excellence in instruction and mentoring in this genre, the music of our time, through the following considerations: ◊
appropriate instruction |
|
About the
Project
Goals &
Objectives
CAM
Capstone Senior Student Portfolios
|
||
|
|
||||
|
|
||||
|
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
||||
