MASTER OF ARTS CORE COURSES
EAST ASIAN MUSIC CULTURES GMUS 670 (2 credits) Karen Howard, PhD June 16-July 25 | Online, Asynchronous *Note: course content modules uploaded weekly with attendant assignments due by the end of each week CRN: 30485 This course explores traditional and contemporary music as a social and communal activity within multiple Asian cultures, including Japan, China and Korea. It employs an anthropological and ethnomusicological approach that analyzes music in a 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. Each student will select an additional music culture within East Asia to study across the semester. SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS CERTIFICATE COURSE IN WORLD MUSIC PEDAGOGY GMUS 536 (3 credits) Karen Howard, PhD June 29 | 3:00-8:00 p.m. June 30-July 3 | 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. CRN: 30426 Students in this intensive course will sample audio, video, print, electronic and human resources with the aim of learning as well as developing an 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 certifies their specialized study in world music pedagogy.
INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH METHODS GMUS 600 (3 credits) Karen Howard, PhD June 16-July 25 | Online, Asynchronous *Note: course content modules uploaded weekly with attendant assignments due by the end of each week CRN: 30477 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 and learning is based on inquiry and research. TEACHING AND LEARNING GMUS 601 (3 credits) Douglas C. Orzolek, PhD June 23-August 1 | 6:00-9:15 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday CRN: 30478 Comprehensive overview of learning theories, instructional theories and implications for the teaching of music to students in grades K-12. Applications of principles and concepts inherent in these theories to the teaching and learning of music. FOUNDATIONS OF MUSIC EDUCATION GMUS 608 (3 credits) Bruce Gleason, PhD June 23-August 1 | 6:00-9:15 p.m. Monday and Wednesday CRN: 30480 Consideration of cultural, philosophical and historical contexts of music education through reading assignments and student presentations.
REALIZING DIVERSITY IN MUSIC EDUCATION GMUS 606 (3 credits) Karen Howard, PhD July 7-11 | 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. CRN: 30479
This course is designed to introduce 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 this 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.
PERSPECTIVES IN MUSIC THEORY GMUS 611 (3 credits) Shersten Johnson, PhD June 23-August 1 | 6:00-9:15 p.m. Monday and Wednesday CRN: 30481
Creative construction of conceptual frameworks that blend traditional analytical techniques with recent trends in music theory scholarship. Development of methodology for the perceptual and reflective study of musical processes, style and meaning. Critical listening, score reading, composing and writing about music. MUSICIANSHIP GMUS 750 (1 credit) Kathy Thomsen, DMA June 30-July 3 | 9:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. CRN: 30503 Studies in musicianship, including systematic sight-reading, aural transcription and analytical skill development.
PIANO PEDAGOGY SUPERVISED TEACHING
GMUS 800 (2 credits) Vanessa Cornett, DMA CRN: 30504
Faculty direction and observation of each student’s teaching. Students will videotape their own piano students for the basis of the class.
Prerequisite: completion of pedagogy courses
Graduate Programs in Music Education
link.stthomas.edu/musicgraduate
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