Music, Signals & Systems: Non-disciplined Education in a Multi-Campus Setting

参与机构：罗文大学，堪萨斯州立大学项目描述这个项目提供了一个通识教育课程的模型，支持将知识作为所有学科之间的连续体的观点，并将强调音乐和工程之间存在的协同效应。这门课程名为“音乐、信号与系统”，将讨论音乐创作和电子信号分析与生成的合并主题。该项目涉及罗文大学和堪萨斯州立大学的电气和计算机工程系以及音乐系之间的合作。通过从工程系统的角度探索创造性的音乐创作，学生接触到音乐和工程的基本概念，强调学科之间的协同作用，培养学生的创造力。这门课程没有数学或音乐必修课，它是一个例子，用来反驳“通识教育”的概念，即与特定学位课程相关的学习之外的东西。主题将从一个整体的角度进行讨论，包括系统工程和音乐创作项目。布罗德意义该项目促进了一种观点，即知识是所有学科之间的连续体，并将强调音乐和工程之间存在的协同效应。它希望为学生提供一种将刺激终身学习的教育体验，为大学如何提供一个适合学生和教职员工需求的学习平台提供一个模式。它利用一系列商业模块化乐器创建了一个基于学生笔记本电脑的实验室，可以移动到音乐可能演变的任何地方。

Participating Institutions: Rowan University, Kansas State University Project DescriptionThis project is offering a model for a general-education course that supports a view of knowledge as a continuum among all disciplines and will emphasize the synergies that exist between music and engineering. The course, "Music, Signals & Systems", will address the merged topics of music composition and electronic signal analysis and generation. The project involves collaboration among the Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments and the Music Departments of both Rowan University and Kansas State University. Through exploring creative music composition from an engineering systems point of view, students are being exposed to concepts that are fundamental to both music and engineering, emphasizing the synergy of the disciplines and fostering the students' creativity. The course, which doesn't have mathematics or music prerequisites, is serving as an example to counter the notion of "general education" as something that is outside of learning that is associated with specific degree program curricula. Topics are being treated from a holistic perspective involving combined systems-engineering and music-composition projects.Broader SignificanceThe project promotes a view of knowledge as a continuum among all disciplines and will emphasize the synergies that exist between music and engineering. It hopes to provide students with an educational experience that will stimulate lifelong learning, offering a model for how the university can provide a learning platform that is appropriate for the needs of both student & faculty. It utilizes a commercial line of modular instruments to create a student-laptop based laboratory that can be moved to wherever the music may evolve.