The Role of Music in Health and Education

Harvard FAS

Music shapes the course of human history at both a micro and macro scale; The "universallanguage" has the power to connect people who share no other common ground. Its power tobind people together is intuitively understood, but only through recent neuroimaging advancesover the past few decades have scientists been able to move past intuition to reveal its impacton the brain. In this course, we will examine the exciting progress of the fields of music, science,and social science,…