MUSI463-14W (C) Whole Year 2014

Comparative Studies in Music Education

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 24 February 2014
End Date: Sunday, 16 November 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 7 March 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 5 September 2014

Description

Comparative Studies in Music Education

This course aims to provide the opportunity to research in depth a chosen music education topic.

Course Content:
Semester One:        selected topics include:
Curriculum objectives and musical growth
Evaluation - the distinction between attainment and aptitude
Historical background to the current school curriculum
Designing instrumental programmes

Semester Two:    
Special consideration of each student's own area of interest
Developing and writing research paper

Note:  This course is designed to provide music education students with the opportunity to develop a research project in addition to MUSI464.

Prerequisites

(1) MUSI335 or MUSI336; (2) Subject to approval of the Subject to approval of the Programme Coordinator

Restrictions

MUSI403, MUSI609

Course Coordinator

For further information see Humanities Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Research proposal 30 Apr 2012 10%
Primary source study 01 Jun 2012 10% A summary of primary sources relevant to your topic. A critique of the key ones leading to a summary of how your project follows on from them. Indicative length: 2000 words
Research Data 03 Sep 2012 10% A research report which includes qualitative and/or quantitive data collected and an anlysis of this data as related to your research objectives.
Seminar 12 Sep 2012 10% A 15 minute presentation on your research project. Assessment is based mainly on the quality of presentation in relation to the content.
Research Study 30 Sep 2012 60% An independently-researched study on an agreed topic (with the course coordinator) which may include material from any of the previous assignments.


Criteria for Marking Research Paper

Topic:
well chosen? properly set in context?

Methods/source material:
methods sound? sources: appropriate/sufficient? competent use?

Argument of paper:
connected and flowing? sufficiently comprehensive? sufficiently penetrating?

Style of paper:
arrangement sound? quality of writing;  formal quality (sources etc)

Originality

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Barrett, Janet R. , McCoy, Claire W., Veblen, Kari K; Sound ways of knowing : music in the interdisciplinary curriculum ; Schirmer, 1997.

Brocklehurst, Brian; Response to music: principles of music education ; Routledge & K. Paul, 1971.

Gibaldi, Joseph , Modern Language Association of America; MLA handbook for writers of research papers ; 7th ed; Modern Language Association of America, 2009.

Green, Barry. , Gallwey, W. Timothy; The inner game of music ; Pan, 1987.

Wiggins, Jackie; Teaching for musical understanding ; McGraw Hill, 2001.

Additional Course Outline Information

Assessment and grading system

The following shows how to translate grades to numerical scores:

A+  90–100;    A   85–89;    A-  80–84;    B+   75–79;    B 70–74;    B-   65–69;     C+  60–64;     C  55–59;     C- 50–54;     D  40–49;   E  0–39
In a course at 100- or 200-level examiners may grant restricted credit (R) which will be equivalent to a pass for all purposes except as a prerequisite.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,763.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

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