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MUSI333 Music and Migration

Updated: 13 July 2010
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study Online Level
Armidale Semester 2 On line E - Wholly online unit
Armidale Semester 2 On Campus C - Internet access required
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites MUSI101 or MUSI103 or MUSI104 or MUSI105 or MUSI106 or MUSI107 or MUSI108 or MUSI109 or MUSI170 or MUSI171 or MUSI180 or MUSI184 or MUSI205 or MUSI206 or MUSI208 or ETHN180 or ETHN181 or ETHN184 or MUSP103 or MUSP104
Co-requisites None
Restrictions None
Notes

offered in even numbered years
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Jenny Game-Lopata (jgamelop@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit examines a number of issues, concepts, and processes of intercultural contact in world musical traditions. Students are introduced to processes of song migration, acculturation, diffusion, syncretism and fusion through case studies of specific traditions and diasporas (including migrant groups in Australia).
Materials No text required
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
Assignment 1: Essay 50% 2000
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-4 GA: 1, 2, 3, 6
Seminar Paper 30% 1500
Assessment Notes
Seminar paper presented in the online environment
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-4 GA: 1, 2, 3
Unit Test (in class/online) 20% 1500 equivalent
Assessment Notes
One in-class/online test on concepts and knowledge in the unit
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-4 GA: 1, 2, 3, 6

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. understand the concepts associated with, and resulting from, intercultural music contact;
  2. understand the processes by which music cultures change and adapt;
  3. identify historical antecedents to current musical practice in migrant communities;
  4. recognise specific elements in a variety of diasporic musical traditions and trace their conceptual and/or physical origin.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
Students learn the key issues and perspectives of ethnomusicological study, which are assessed in the three set assessment tasks. 		True True True
2 Communication Skills
Students communicate in online and in-class discussions, and through written discourse, where this skill is formally assessed. 		True True True
3 Global Perspectives
The global perspective of this unit is emphatic, which explores intercultural contact through music, and this is assessed in all three set assessment tasks. 		True True True
4 Information Literacy
Students practise this skill through the presentation of seminars in the online environment. 		True
5 Life-Long Learning
In this unit, students are encouraged to explore those musical expressions that are not a part of their normal experience. 		True True
6 Problem Solving
Students are required to evaluate information and apply it in innovative ways to their own performance. 		True True True
7 Social Responsibility
Social responsibility is a practised element in the unit though not taught or assessed. Since the unit examines ways in which different people from different cultures interact and perform music together in a new environment, the unit exposes students to ideas of social responsibility. 		True
8 Team Work
Since the unit examines ways in which different people from different cultures interact and perform music together in a new environment, the unit exposes students to ideas of team work. 		True True
   

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