Course - Community Music - MGLU5221
Community Music
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About the course
Course content
This course seeks to explore and critically examine various perspectives and understandings of community music and collective-oriented music practices. Students are challenged to explore what the concept of ‘community’ in art is and to create activities that strengthen the sense of community and inclusion in formal, informal, and non-formal learning environments. Students learn about artistic approaches and pedagogical strategies that aim to support and facilitate participation in music and art, where ethics in practice are carefully considered. The course is based on the view that music and art are social practices in a multicultural and diverse society, where cultural relevance and the ability to be culturally responsive are significant, and where differences and diversity are seen as a value. Knowledge of music, dance, and drama as inclusive and exclusive practices, and as creative, performing, and transformative activities is emphasized. Relevant topics include music, social justice and change, sustainability in social activities, local-global perspectives on music, music and well-being, music and identity, and music project management, aesthetic learning processes, embodied learning, and interdisciplinary art activities
Learning outcome
Knowledge
The student
- has thorough research-based knowledge about different perspectives on community, and community music
- has advanced knowledge about questions in community music, and how to connect these to aesthetic learning processes and bodily learning in diverse contexts
- has in-depth understanding of music, dance and drama as inclusive and exclusive practices, as well as difference and diversity as resources for art-making
Skills
The student
- can, on an advanced level, collaborate with different learners and teachers and other stakeholders, plan and carry out a community music project with the purpose of strengthening a sense of community and inclusion in a way that is culturally relevant, sensitive, and responsive
- can on advanced level use own professional skills in music to design music activities that combine artistic qualities with a view on difference as a value, while also considering sustainability, power, and privilege within community encounters and contexts
- can critically evaluate and discuss their own and others' community music projects, with the help of relevant academic and professional questions from the field and research
General competence
The student
- can use and present perspectives from community music to contribute with new perspectives on quality in music and the arts more broadly and maintain inclusion and diversity in educational settings.
- has reflective and explorative perspectives on their own professional knowledge in music, pedagogy, and artistic approaches
Learning methods and activities
Workshops, seminars, lectures, presentations, developing and working in communities of practice, self-directed learning.
Compulsory assignments
- Written reflection
- Idea and presentation for a community music project
- A reflective and critical academic text
Further on evaluation
Compulsory activities:
The following mandatory activities must be approved in order to submit the exam assignment:
- A Written Reflection
- A Idea and Implementation of an Interactive Community Music Workshop
- A Reflective and Critical Academic Text
Other Relevant Information
Collaboration with a self-chosen institution (relevant for art education), and self-directed learning in this collaboration is an important part of the course. It is the student’s responsibility to organize the collaboration and research work at these institutions.
Assessment Form and Grading Scale:
The course is assessed through an exam assignment that is both (i) group-based and (ii) individual. All coursework and mandatory activities must be passed in order to submit the exam assignment.
The exam assignment is as follows:
1. Group-based Practical Part
Prepare and present a 30-45 minute community music social-artistic interaction/performance that combines the work previously done in the groups. The social-artistic interaction/performance should be based on Task 2 and can take place within or outside a formal educational setting, or both.
2. Individual Oral Part
After the social-artistic interaction/performance, and informed by the approaches presented by the various researchers in the reading list, each student will individually make a 15-20 minute oral presentation as a critical reflection on their overall experiences with the community music social-artistic interaction/performance. The presentation should highlight artistic aspects in the process and product of this process that demonstrate community/interactive collaborative experiences. The presentation should point to some insights on how the student can draw on such aspects to develop or scale such a social-artistic interaction/performance project for use within and outside their own community.
The assessment scale will be through the letter grade scale A-F, where the grades A-E means pass, and F means failed
Specific conditions
Admission to a programme of study is required:
Primary and Lower Secondary Teacher Education for Years 1-7 (MGLU1-7) - some programmes
Primary and Lower Secondary Teacher Education for Years 5-10 (MGLU5-10) - some programmes
Required previous knowledge
In order to take the assessment, the course must be taken in the same semester. Compulsory activities from previous semesters can be approved by the Department of Teacher Education. The student must have passed music 1 and completed music 2 in order to start on courses in cycle 2. Passing is understood as the student having completed and passed the exam in the course. Completed is understood as that all compulsory work requirements in the course have been approved, in other words that the student is ready for the exam.
Course materials
The teaching materials required for this course are as follows:
- Curriculum summary.
- Course reading list including current local and global theories associated with community, community music and arts with literature choices in English and Nordic languages. A preliminary reading list will be posted on NTNUs digital learning platform blackboard prior to the start of the course.
- Different arts materials as required and as available at ILU, NTNU. ILU will not cover the costs of other materials.
Credit reductions
| Course code | Reduction | From |
|---|---|---|
| MGLU4214 | 7.5 sp | Autumn 2023 |
Subject areas
- Teacher Education
- Music Pedagogy Subjects