Sean Griffin

Teaching

Guest Lecturer 2003-2005

• Princeton University
• Occidental College
• California Institute of the Arts

Areas of Specialization

• Digital Media, Video, Sound Design
• Music Theory and Orchestration
• 20th Century Music History and Theory
• Performance Art and Interdisciplinary Art History

Associate in Music, UCSD, Music Department

• Music 208D – Experimental Music Practices, 2004
  Graduate course in contemporary music and musicology.
• Music 4 – Introduction to Western Music, 2002
  A historical overview of musical and related cultural development of Western culture from the medieval period to 1980.
• Music 103B – Composition Seminar, 2002
  An upper division composition course focusing on independent projects, private composition lessons, and self-directed research.
• Music 2K A, B, & C, - Keyboard Skills, 1998-1999
  A yearlong, three-part music theory course focusing on keyboard harmonization, transposition, and theory.
• Music 14, The Modern Day Diva, Summer Session, 2001
  Course focused on the political, gender, and social issues facing women artists in the 20th century.

Adjunct Faculty, California Institute of the Arts, Music Department

• Musicianship Skills A & B, 1996-1997
  Taught classes and workshops in ear-training, sight-singing, rhythmic and melodic dictation and oversaw computer-based music skills training program.

Teaching Assistant, UCSD Music Department, 1997-2001

• Music 107, Acoustics: the Physics of Sound, 2001
• Music 101, Music Theory and Practice III, 18th Century Harmony, 2000
• Music 101, Music Theory and Practice II, 17th Century Counterpoint, 2000
• Music 101, Music Theory and Practice I, 16th Century Counterpoint, 1999
• Music 12, Special Topics in Music: Opera, 1998
• Music 14, Special Topics in Music: Rock’n Roll, 1998
• Music 4, An Introduction to Music, 1997

California Institute of the Arts, 1994-1995

• Musicianship Skills A & B, 1994-1995
  Ear-training, sight-singing, rhythmic and melodic dictation
• Music A: Fundamental Musicianship, 1994

Instructor, UCSD, Muir College Writing Program, 1999-2000

• Argument and Rhetorical Analysis in Writing, 1999-2000

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