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(in Polish) Sound studies

General data

Course ID:	3106-SS-F
Erasmus code / ISCED:	(unknown) / (unknown)
Course title:	(unknown)
Name in Polish:	Sound studies
Organizational unit:	Institute of Musicology
Course groups:	(in Polish) Fakultety, Pracownie, OG (in Polish) Przedmioty fakultatywne (i do wyboru) dla studentów studiów stacjonarnych
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	1.50 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
Language:	(unknown)
Type of course:	elective courses
Short description:	Introduction to sound studies in theoretical and practical way as well: from listening excersises through soundscape idea to historical and cultural issues (devices, media, communities)
Full description:	1. Listening exercises 2. Soundwalk 3. Acoustic of space, sound ecology 4. Car sound design 5. Bell as marker and heritage 6. Ghosts’ voces (grammophone, radio, telephone) 7. From loudspeaker to headphones 8. LP, CD, MP3, stream: dematerialization 9. Ambience, ambient and muzak 10. Sound design in movies and games 11. Sound art and works 12. Sonic warfare and noise 13. Radio, cassettes and communities 14. Deaf people, implants and hearing
Bibliography:	Decoder, reż. Mucha, Niemcy 1984 Anna Goc, Głusza, Karakter 2022 „Glissando” nr 31 (2017), red. Daniel Brożek „Glissando” nr 37 (2019), red. Justyna Stasiowska Kultura dźwięku, red. Christoph Cox i Daniel Warner, słowo obraz terytoria 2009 Karin Bijsterveld, Eefje Cleophas, Stefan Krebs, Gijs Mom, red., Sound and Safe: A History of Listening Behind the Wheel, Oxford University Press 2013 Barry Blesser i Linda-Ruth Salter, Spaces Speak, Are You Listening? Experiencing Aural Architecture, MIT Press 2009 Alan Corbin, Village Bells. Sound and Meaning in the Nineteenth-century French Countryside, tłum. Martin Thom, Columbia University Press, Basingstoke, Oxford 1998 Steve Goodman, Sonic Warfare. Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear, MIT Press 2000 Charles Hirschkind, Cassette Sermons, Aural Modernities and the Islamic Revival in Cairo, w: American Ethnologist vol. 28 no. 3 (2001) Danijela Kulejezevic-Willians, Soundscape is the New Score. Theory, Aesthetics, and Erotics of the Integrated Soundtrack, Oxford University Press 2019 Brandon LaBelle, Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art, Bloomsbury 2015 John Mowitt, The Sound of music in the Era of its electronic reproducibility Pauline Oliveros, Anthology of Essays on Deep Listening, MInistry of Matt Inc. 2012 Murray R. Schafer, Tuning of the World, The Knopf, 1977. Jeff Sconce, Haunted Technologies. Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television, Duke University Press 2000
Learning outcomes:	Awareness of sound’s role in design (architecture, cars, movies, games(, deep environment’s listening, knowledge of cultural contexts of sound
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Participation and activity (presentations, discussions)

Classes in period "Summer semester 2023/24" (in progress)

Time span:	2024-02-19 - 2024-06-16	Selected timetable range: weekly course term Navigate to timetable MO TU W KON KON TH FR
Type of class:	Seminar, 30 hours, 15 places more information
Coordinators:	Anastasiya Niakrasava, Jan Topolski
Group instructors:	Jan Topolski
Students list:	(inaccessible to you)
Examination:	Course - Grading Seminar - Grading

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