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Armidale, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

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MUSI333 Music and Migration

Updated: 23 April 2012

Unit Information
Additional Information

Credit Points	6
Offering	Not offered in 2013
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 or MUSI209 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)	Alan Davison (adaviso3@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	Textbook information will be displayed approximately 8 weeks prior to the commencement of the teaching period. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.
Disclaimer	Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Assessment

Assessment information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Learning Outcomes (LO)

Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:

understand the concepts associated with, and resulting from, intercultural music contact;
understand the processes by which music cultures change and adapt;
identify historical antecedents to current musical practice in migrant communities; and
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.
2	Communication Skills Students communicate in online and in-class discussions, and through written discourse, where this skill is formally assessed.
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.
4	Information Literacy Students practise this skill through the presentation of seminars in the online environment.
5	Life-Long Learning In this unit, students are encouraged to explore those musical expressions that are not a part of their normal experience.
6	Problem Solving Students are required to evaluate information and apply it in innovative ways to their own performance.
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.
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.