PAS 101: INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC THEORY & COMPOSITION         2 Credits
This course is designed to help students acquire basic musical knowledge and    skills in the writing of music for solo voice and chorus.

PAS 102: LITERARY ORIENTATION TO THEATRE ARTS         2 Credits
This course introduces students to some of the literary terms and devices that constitute the basic Ingredients of Dramatic Theory and Practice.  It looks at the definition of drama and theatre, elements of form, techniques, setting and background technical facilities, aesthetic and intellectual values.

PAS 103: APPLIED MUSIC, CHORAL AND ENSEMBLE WORK         2 Credits
The course provides students the opportunity to acquire knowledge of music literature. Students are also assisted to enhance their performance skills.

PAS 104: INTERMEDIATE COURSE IN MUSIC THEORY & COMPOSITION        2 Credits
In this course, students will be introduced to basic techniques for composing solo and ensemble instrumental pieces.

PAS 105: BASICS OF THE LIVING THEATRE   1 Credit
This is an introductory and exploratory Theatre Laboratory that looks at the living stage and its accessory back – up facilities.  It is aimed at instilling and building confidence.  It also considers the evaluation and utilization of space etc.  There will be rudimentary practical exercises in stage usage and movement.

PAS 106 : APPLIED MUSIC AND CHORAL REHEARSAL   2 Credits
APPLIED MUSIC
This is a practical course on a musical instrument. The course description for each instrument is as follows:
Voice
The course aims at equipping students with vocal performance skills in voice. Students at this level will study four art songs from African-American, European and African music repertoire.

 Wind Instruments
 Students, at this level, would be exposed to the fundamentals of playing a wind instrument such as Trumpet in B-flat, Alto or Tenor Saxophone, and Clarinet in B-flat. They will also be introduced to performance techniques. As a requirement, students will, in every semester, perform two pieces of music chosen from Western and African repertoire in the concert keys of B-flat, E-flat, F and G.
African Instruments
This course aims at giving students considerable skills in performing on the drum, xylophone and at[nt[b[n. Students will study selected recreational dances and pieces for the xylophone and atenteben.

Piano

This course aims at assisting students to acquire basic performance skills in piano playing. Students will be required to play short pieces by European as well as African art music composers. They will also master all scales and technical exercises relevant to the pieces and any pertinent points related to the pieces and their composers. 

Guitar
The course is designed to assist students to acquire skills in African and Western classical styles of guitar playing. They will study the basic techniques of playing scales on the guitar. Students will be expected to master four pieces.

CHORAL
The course is designed to assist students to apply vocal techniques studied in group setting. It will also provide opportunities for students to increase their repertoire of songs. Students will be required to participate in class performances and in other functions in and outside the University.

PAS 201: MUSIC THEORY & COMPOSITION: MELODY WRITING        2 Credits
This course is aimed at equipping students with the knowledge and skills to write more elaborate melodies for the voice and other Western and African melodic instruments, and be exposed to both Western and African approaches to the setting of texts to music.

PAS 202: INTRODUCTION TO DANCE COMPOSITIONS         2 Credits
The course is designed to assist students  acquire skills and knowledge of physiological and environmental factors that underscore the creation of movement patterns and thus facilitate students’ abilities to compose executable dance forms.

PAS 203: INTRODUCTORY CHORAL AND ENSEMBLE WORK           2 Credits
This course is one of the practical music laboratories for the enhancement of vocal techniques. It aims at increasing students’ repertoire of songs through in-depth study of a variety of choral music styles from Ghanaian repertory – past and present. Students’ participation in ensemble work will help them acquire skills that will enable them perform Ghanaian traditional music in a group setting.

PAS 204: INTRODUCTION TO THE THEATRE            3 Credits
This course focuses on the Theatre; its nature, function or social role.  It surveys the collaborative art of the theatre, its purpose, tools, organization and mode of operation.  It also considers modern extension to Theatre: Film, Video, Radio, T.V.

PAS 205: INTERMEDIATE DANCE TECHNIQUES              3 Credits
The course provides students the opportunity to acquire dance techniques through participation in  exercises in movements based on African contemporary dance forms.

PAS 206: ACTING             3 Credits
This course considers the human body and voice as tools for artistic communication.  It involves prescribed body and voice exercises.  Theories and practice in modern acting; Stansilavsky, Benedetti, Brecht, Artaud, Grotowski, etc will be looked at.  Other areas to be examined include styles and period acting, and role interpretation in acting. 

PAS 207: BASIC SKILLS IN APPLIED MUSIC AND MUSICIANSHIP            3 Credits
Voice
This course provides opportunities for students to acquire skills in the performance of advanced solo vocal pieces. Students will study four songs from African-American, European and African music repertoire.

Wind Instruments
In this course, students will expand their repertoire in African and Western pieces. Students will also acquire techniques for the performance of the selected pieces for this stage. The selected pieces will be in the keys of C, F, G, B-flat, E-flat and A-flat.

African Instruments
This course will provide students with the opportunity to increase their repertoire of Ghanaian traditional music and dance types including cult dances. In addition, students will study pieces for the xylophone and the atentben.

Piano

This course is designed to assist students to study advanced pieces by Africans as well as European art music composers. They will also master all scales and technical exercises relevant to the pieces. The students will acquire knowledge about the composers whose pieces they perform.

Guitar
Students will enhance their skills in the playing of advanced chords on the guitar. They will master and perform, in public, extended pieces of music.

MUSICIANSHIP
In this course, students will be assisted to build on their musicianship skills. The course is intended to assist students enhance their ability to play at sight and to perform hymn tunes in keys B-flat and D major and to transpose melodies written in these keys into other keys. Two instruments, piano and guitar, will be available for this course and students will be required to perform on one.

PAS 208: HISTORY OF WESTERN ART MUSIC STYLES: 1600 - 1850           3 Credits       
This course is a detailed study and analysis of the styles, aesthetics and cultural relevance of the music of African and Western civilizations. The first semester covers the music of the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods.

PAS 209 : MUSIC THEORY AND COMPOSITION: USAGE OF CHORDS          2 Credits
The course is designed to enhance students’ skills in the use of primary and secondary chords, in major and minor modes, to harmonize simple melodies. Students will also have the opportunity to study two- and four-part writing. At the end of the course, students will be expected to present at least two hymn-tunes with texts from a hymnbook or with students’ own texts.

PAS 210: PLAY ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION I     2 Credits
The course involves studies in techniques of analysing plays and interpreting them for production or performance, based on prescribed text.  Emphasis will be placed on plot structure, stylistic devices, characteristics as they relate to them, character development in terms of dramatic action and its basic conflicts and resolution, intellectual, emotional, moral and aesthetic values.  The course will involve exploration through interpretative exercises in stage terms.

PAS 211: INTERMEDIATE CHORAL AND ENSEMBLE WORK.        2 Credits
The course will help students to expand their repertoire of African and Western choral and ensemble pieces.

PAS 212: INTERMEDIATE DANCE COMPOSITION          2 Credits
The course seeks to enhance students’ ability to compose dance patterns. Students will be assisted to appreciate and use movements for expression and strengthen their ability to present dance on Western European stage; utilizing effects of lighting, costume, make-up etc to enhance dance production.

PAS 213: POPULAR MUSIC AND DANCE IN GHANA: HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND            3 Credits
The course focuses on the study of traditional and contemporary popular music types in Ghana. It looks at the origin, growth and development of these popular music types and the social events that contributed to their creation and growth.
           
PAS 214: FILM THEORY AND CRITICISM        3 Credits
The course aims at equipping students with the theoretical tools and principles for analyzing and interpreting films.  Students will have the opportunity to apply the basic principles of film criticism in the appreciation of films from all traditions.

PAS 215: TRADITIONAL AFRICAN DANCE FORMS         3 Credits
Students will be required to learn selected African traditional dances. They will also be assisted to acquire skills in playing all the instruments that constitute the ensembles studied.

PAS 216: HISTORY OF WESTERN AND AFRICAN ART MUSICAL STYLES:1850 – 2000              3 Credits 
This course, which is a continuation of PAS208 also offers students the opportunity to study, in detail, the styles, aesthetics and cultural relevance of the Art Music of the 19th Century to the present including art music of contemporary Africa.

PAS 217: PRODUCTION PARTICIPATION: GHANAIAN WORKS          3 Credits
This course involves varied assignments and roles in production of works by Ghanaian authors and directed by either a member of faculty or colleague student.  The course is designed to enable the students develop discipline, creativity and sound working attitudes.

PAS 218: THEORY AND PRACTICE OF AFRICAN MUSIC, DANCE AND THEATRE        3 Credits
The course is designed to help students to understand the structure and form of African music, dance and theatre as well as the role these art forms play in the life of the African.

PAS 309: MUSIC THEORY ADVANCED COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES              3 Credits
The course seeks to provide students opportunities to strengthen their skills and knowledge in the composition of 17th and 18th Century Western musical styles. Students will be assisted to use African traditional authentic musical idioms in their compositions. The course also introduces students to 20th Century Western music compositional techniques.

PAS 310: INTRODUCTION TO LABANOTATION      COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES              2 Credits
The course will help students acquire knowledge and skills in the use of Labanotation in dance compositions. It will be required at the end of the course that students present, at the end of the course, a reasonable length of an original dance composition, presented in Labanotation.

PAS 311: CHORAL REHEARSAL: AFRICAN AND WESTERN WORKS—MAJOR WORKS            1 Credits
In this course, students will be assisted to increase their repertoire of African and Western art music. They will acquire skills that will enable them not only to sing in a choir, but also perform advanced choral pieces creditably. Students will be required to participate in class performances and other functions in and outside the University as part of the assessment criteria.PAS 312: PRODUCTION PARTICIPATION: PLAYS WRITTEN BY WEST AFRICAN AUTHORS COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES           3 Credits
The course involves varied assignments and roles in productions directed by either faculty or colleague student.  It aims to enable students to develop discipline, creativity and sound working attitudes in the practical theatre profession.

PAS 313: STAGECRAFT           3 Credits
The course will engage students in the study of the theatre, its stage and equipment and the organization of the personnel. An overview of the two- and three-dimensional scenery as well as stagecraft tools and stage hardware. Familiarity with the stage symbols, culminating in drafting assignments of ground plans and front rear elevations. Laboratory sessions of sets and props construction, painting, rigging, shifting, etc will be held.

PAS 314: AESTHETIC EVALUATION OF SELECTED ART WORKS OF GHANAIAN AND WESTERN COMPOSERS                3 Credits
This course is designed to assist students to  study devices used by selected composers to achieve their aesthetic goals.  Students will be expected to present an aesthetic evaluation of a major composition by a composer of their choice.  This will be discussed and critiqued in class.PAS 315: FIELD WORK IN MUSICOLOGY        3 Credits
This course, a sequel to MUS 313, introduces the student to the nitty-gritty and realities of fieldwork in ethnomusicology. It is defined to include the collection, interpretation and presentation of field data.

PAS 316: PLAY WRITING          3 Credits
The course delves into the Writer’s world and examines theories and techniques in writing for the stage.  There will be elementary exercises in observation, inception of the play, identification of theme, character and the drama situation as well as simple techniques of plot construction.  Analysis will be made of both students’ scripts and established work.

PAS 317: PRODUCTION PARTICIPATION: AFRICAN AND WESTERN DANCES           3 Credits
The course involves varied assignments and roles in productions directed by either faculty or colleague student.  It aims to enable students to develop discipline, creativity and sound working attitudes in the practical theatre profession.

PAS 399: RESEARCH METHODS             3 Credits
The course is designed to introduce students to basic research techniques applied in musicological studies as well as studies in music education. It will expose students to qualitative and quantitative research paradigms.

PAS 401: MUSIC THEORY & COMPOSITION: EXTENDED WORKS I                 3 Credits
The course is aimed at building confidence and competence in students, in their ability to harmonize and compose extensive vocal and instrumental music. The desired approach should provide for progressive insight into the complexities of musical concepts and techniques including the use of more advanced chords, variations of themes, and the structure of the forms of extended or large compositions.  The fundamentals of Twentieth Century harmony will also be highlighted.

PAS 402: CHORAL AND ENSEMBLE: CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AND WESTERN PIECES                 3 Credits 
This course is one of the practical music laboratories for the enhancement of vocal techniques. It aims at increasing students’ repertoire of songs through in-depth study of variety of choral music styles from Ghanaian repertory –past and present. Students will be required to participate in class performances and in other functions in and outside the university as part of the assessment criteria.

PAS 403: DANCE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT               3 Credits
Students will be assisted to acquire skills that will enable them manage, effectively, factors that go into dance ensemble management. The course will focus on human and material resource management.

PAS 404: THEATRE AND DEVELOPMENT       3 Credits
The course offers studies in theories, principles and practices of development. It also examines principles of teaching  that will enable directors of plays to develop strategies that will enhance the  dissemination of the messages encapsulated in plays. The course will also provide strategies for assessing the impact of drama as a tool for disseminating information in Africa.

PAS 405: THEATRE  MANAGEMENT            3 Credits
The course is a general study of the principles of management and their application to the performing arts particularly in community and educational establishments; budgeting and production preparation; planning and organization of performances.  It also looks at problems of box office and house management; advertisement, publicity and public relation; organizing limited tours, problems of staffing and personnel.

PAS 406: DANCE  PRODUCTION           3 Credits
The course will treat factors of dance production. Students will be engaged in a critical review of traditional approaches to dance production and assisted to device new ways of approaching dance production.

PAS 407: SEMINAR IN DANCE EDUCATION          3 Credits
The course is designed to enable students to identify challenges in dance education in Ghana. As a project, students will select a problem of their choice, investigate the problem and offer suggestions relative to the solutions of the problem.

PAS 408: MUSIC THEORY AND COMPOSITION: EXTENDED WESTERN AND AFRICAN ART MUSIC COMPOSITION             3 Credits
The course is designed to assist students to complete their original vocal and instrumental compositions, utilizing African and Western musical idioms. The course will also help students to use Twentieth Century musical idioms in their original compositions.

PAS 409: CHORAL AND ENSEMBLE WORK: MUSIC AND DANCE OF AFRICANS IN THE DIASPORA          3 Credits
Students will continue to increase their repertoire with songs from composers of African descent. They will acquire the technique requisite for rendering pieces of African-American heritage.

PAS 410: CONTEMPORARY WEST AFRICAN DRAMA               3 Credits       
The course involves an in-depth study of prescribed text.  Analysis and interpretation are geared toward the director, the actor and the technical director.  Emphasis will be on elements of characters and characterization, dramatic contrast and conflict, tone, tempo and rhythm of a play, plot, rising action, climaxes and resolution.  Only plays from African and the diaspora will be discussed.

PAS 411: MEDIA AND SOCIETY                  3 Credits
This course starts with definitions and range of implications; the role of the Media in social development.  Other aspects to be covered include the following: the Media and the arts; a useful correlation or a damaging relationship, media and culture; objective criticism, reviews and previews; social responsibility towards the media and the theatre in a developing country.  Students will be engaged in critical evaluation of types of media and their presentation of social, cultural, political, religious events and how these impact upon the behaviour of the members of the society.

PAS 412: SPECIAL DANCE STUDY                 3 Credits
This project-oriented course will require students to select an African dance of reasonable standard, study its performance, and present a paper on any aspect of the dance that is of interest to the student.           

PAS 413: ADVANCED STUDY OF COMPOSITIONAL AND PERFORMANCE TECHNIQUES: POPULAR MUSIC FROM THE DIASPORA              3 Credits
The course focuses on the generative process of popular music. Students will be assisted to acquire knowledge and skills in composing popular music in the idiom of African-American music style.

PAS 414: DANCE AESTHETICS AND CRITICISM           3 Credits
The student will be engaged in philosophical discussions regarding the nature and value of dance. They will critically evaluate each of the various schools that attempt to explain the meaning of art.

PAS 499: PROJECT WORK              3 Credits
The course is designed to assist students to acquire skills in the writing of extensive musical pieces utilizing authentic African and Western musical idioms. Students will also be helped to write long essays based on topics of interest, in musicology, music education or church music, to the students.