DIVERSE MUSICS
EAST ASIAN MUSIC CULTURES GMUS 670 (2 credits) Karen Howard, PhD June 15 – July 24 | Online Asynchronous CRN: 30164 This course explores traditional and contemporary music as a social and communal activity within multiple East Asian cultures including Japan, China, and Korea. It employs an anthropological and ethnomusicological approach that analyzes music in cultural context rather than solely as an object of art. Pedagogical strategies and curricular innovations will be developed with attention to avoiding appropriation and othering while aiming toward equity with a more socially just music education. Additionally, each student will select a music culture within East Asia to study across the semester. DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES: INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLES GMUS 653 (2 credits) Adrian Davis, PhD July 6-10 | 9:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. CRN: 30163 Diverse musics and experiences are often misrepresented in the instrumental music ensemble due to the lack of resources available to educators as well as the problems connected to the authenticity of the existing repertoire and arrangements. This course will explore the theoretical perspectives and practical approaches that can help music educators develop a more inclusive instrumental music program. The course will offer students the opportunity to discover and contemplate original music for bands and orchestras from all over the world. In addition, experiences with different types of instrumental ensembles will be provided. The goal of the course is to help music educators consider how an inclusive
approach to instrumental pedagogy can enrich and expand the opportunities provided by performing and rehearsing diverse music.
understanding of ways to teach music of the world’s cultures. Attention will be given to learning culture through songs, movement and dance experiences, instrumental music and contextualized cultural components. Participants will be guided through recordings and curricular materials from the Smithsonian Folkways archives that fit the needs of students in knowing music and knowing culture through music. Musical experiences will be tailored for use at various levels, including in classes for children, youth and adults in university and community settings with occasional small group sessions to decipher and discuss applications for particular teaching contexts and aims. Enrolled participants will join together to share particular means of teaching world music and will receive documentation from the Smithsonian Institution that recognizes their specialized study in world music pedagogy.
REALIZING DIVERSITY IN MUSIC EDUCATION GMUS 606 (3 credits) Karen Howard, PhD July 13-17 | 9:00-4:30 p.m. CRN: 30160
MASTER OF ARTS CORE COURSES
This course is designed to introduce the four domains of social justice in education: identity, diversity, justice, and action. Considerations of engendering empathy, developing a critical consciousness, and crafting a more socially just education are central to the seminar. As a result of the course, students will: develop a working understanding and vocabulary of the social movements in education leading to the current state of diversity; draft a refurbished approach to selecting repertoire that is based on a reflective and inclusive definition of quality; and create meaningful teaching and learning experiences that embody the underlying tenets of identity, diversity, justice, and action. SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS CERTIFICATE COURSE IN WORLD MUSIC PEDAGOGY
INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH METHODS IN MUSIC EDUCATION GMUS 600 (3 credits) Karen Howard, PhD June 15-July 24 | Online Asynchronous CRN: 30158 This course presents a survey of current and past research trends in music education, while also developing applied engagement with techniques of design and data analysis. The aim is to provide points of connection between possible practice and previous research, as well as to develop an understanding of how creative, innovative, and competent teaching is based on inquiry and research.
AFRICAN MUSIC ENSEMBLE GMUS 671 (2 credits) Sowah Mensah June 15-18 (No Class June 19) 9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. CRN: 30165
GMUS 536 (3 credits) Karen Howard, PhD June 22-26 | 9:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. CRN: 30108
TEACHING AND LEARNING GMUS 601 (3 credits) Sarah Minette, PhD June 22-July 31 | 6:00-9:00 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays CRN: 30159
Study of traditional African music (Ghana, West Africa) through music performance. Performance of chants, songs, music for social and festive occasions, and other vocal and instrumental examples selected from a variety of styles. Classes will focus on learning the music so that students will be able to teach it to their own students. Instrumental music will include drumming, xylophone (gyil) music and adenkum (gourd stamping tube). All instruments provided for use in class.
Students in this intensive course will sample audio, video, print, electronic and human resources with the aim of learning as well as developing an
Comprehensive overview of learning theories, instructional theories and implications for the teaching of music to children in grades K-12. Applications of principles and concepts inherent in these theories to the teaching and learning of music.
LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC GMUS 537 (2 credits) Patrick O’Keefe DMA July 20-24 | 9:00-3:00 p.m. CRN: 30109
Participants will be guided through musical experiences that cover selected cultures and genres from throughout Latin America, including potential genres such as: Cuban rumba, Mexican son jarocho, Peruvian festejo, and Brazilian samba and maracatu. This hands-on course is appropriate for vocal and instrumental educators who teach at any level from elementary through secondary.
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