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Teaching Popular Music (MUSI90048)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2017
Overview
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This is a practical module that examines the challenges of introducing popular music into classrooms, both from a musical and educational perspective. Students will consider how popular music performance, improvisation and composition skills can be readily handled in formal education settings and the connection between popular music and youth culture as well as an examination of popular music styles and forms.
This subject can be taken as a single subject via the Community Access Program, or for credit towards the Master of Music Studies degree. Further information regarding the Community Access Program and Application forms can be accessed via this website - http://futurestudents.unimelb.edu.au/courses/single_subject_studies
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should have gained:
- An enhanced understanding and critical awareness of the nature of Popular Music and its place in the music classroom;
- The ability to design a teaching program that embodies principles from research in the area;
- An enhanced capacity to undertake independent research and present in a scholarly discussion.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject, students should have also developed:
- The capacity to apply new concepts to their critical interpretation of familiar and new information and experiences;
- The ability to produce scholarly writing.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
Preparation for sessions (20%); presentation for the class on Day 4 (30%); and an independent assignment resulting in a unit of work that embodies the principles covered in seminars (50%) due five weeks after the conclusion of the subject. Provision will be made for the sharing of students work.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
Not available in 2017
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
A reading pack will be distributed prior to the first class.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Music Studies - Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 3 November 2022