Critically Thinking in Music

3-0-9 units. HASS-A · Undergraduate

Seminar that develops skills needed to explore a broad range of musical questions through a diversity of music systems and cultures, research tools and approaches, and scholarly viewpoints. Engaging the ambiguity, uncertainty, and unsolved (or even unsolvable) questions in music research, students practice thinking humanistically and critically about their own priorities, assumptions, and understandings of musical knowledge while gaining the tools to ask new questions and conduct independent research. Strong emphasis on discussion, interdisciplinary thinking, and practical applications of research skills. Students taking graduate version complete different assignments. Enrollment limited.