• True Blue Core Knowledge Domain: History and Civic Learning (HCL) (6 hours) 

• • For all catalogs 2024-2025 and beyond, this course (3 hours) satisfies the True Blue Core curriculum requirement for Explorations in History & Civic Learning. To learn more about TBC requirements: https://w1.mtsu.edu/truebluecore/core.php.
  • For all catalogs prior to 2024-2025, this course may NOT be used to satisfy general education requirements. Students wishing to switch to the 2024-2025 catalog should see their advisors to discuss the implications of changing catalogs. To learn more about general education requirements for catalogs prior to 2024-2025: https://w1.mtsu.edu/gen_ed/requirements.php 
  • The TBC outcome for Explorations in History and Civic Learning (HCL): Students demonstrate civic learning by using knowledge, information, and understanding to comprehend civic identity and civic obligations in local and global contexts.

Description:

This newly created course studies the various populations and ethnic communities of Nashville, revealing connections between their origins, their music, and place in the civic life of the city, as well as the way various city and state policies have impacted the presence and development of these communities and traditions. Some of the traditions and communities discussed include the “Nashville Sound” of Music Row, the “Soul” of Jefferson Street, the Colonial Era’s Appalachian Ballad, the antebellum African American Spiritual at Fisk University and the 21^st Century sound collage of Kurdish, Ethiopian, Egyptian Coptic and especially the Latino musical traditions in Antioch.

Sample Syllabus!

 

*If you have any questions, feel free to contact Joseph.Morgan@mtsu.edu*