REALIZING DIVERSITY IN MUSIC EDUCATION - NEW! GMUS 606 (3 credits) Karen Howard, PhD July 8-12 | 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. CRN: 30267
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. EAST ASIAN MUSIC CULTURES - NEW! GMUS 670 (2 credits) Karen Howard, PhD June 17-July 26 | Online Asynchronous CRN: 30268 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. Additionally, each student will select an additional music culture within East Asia to study across the semester. TEACHING GUITAR AND UKULELE GMUS 544-05 (1 credit) Chris Kachian, DMA August 5-9 | 1:00-3:30 p.m. CRN: 30234 Preparation for starting or continuing a class guitar and ukulele program. Topics include acquiring and maintaining instruments, reviewing available texts and related materials, and age-appropriate pacing of pedagogical materials and approaches. Special focus on teaching musical notations and stylistic genres common to the guitar. Designed for middle and high school teachers.
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 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. CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES IN contemplative practices in education, and will study a wide variety of mindfulness techniques appropriate for music students of all ages. We will emphasize a secular form of vipassana mindfulness, defined by Jon Kabat- Zinn as “the deliberate focus of awareness, without judgment, on thoughts and events of the present moment.” Students will engage in various forms of stillness and movement, and creative and generative contemplative methods; they will also build confidence leading guided meditations, and will apply mindfulness practices to a wide variety of teaching contexts. Topics will include mindfulness for attentional focus, body awareness, peak performance, deep listening, mindful music practice, and anxiety management, with special attention to cultural considerations and trauma-sensitive practices. It is expected that students will engage in regular meditation practices for the duration of this course. SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS CERTIFICATE COURSE IN WORLD MUSIC PEDAGOGY MUSIC EDUCATION GMUS 544-02 (1 credit) Dr. Vanessa Cornett-Murtada July 22-26 | 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CRN: 30293 Students will investigate the research related to
GMUS 536 (3 credits) Karen Howard, PhD June 24-28 | 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. CRN: 30212
Students in this intensive course will sample audio, video, print, electronic and human resources with the aim of
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