How your final grade is calculated
Attendance and class participation 15% Presentation 10% Three papers 45% Final project 30%
Special note
Academic accommodations are available for students with disabilities who are registered with the Office of Disability and Support Services. Students in need of disability accommodations should schedule an appointment with me early in the semester to discuss any accommodations for this course that have been approved by Office of Disability and Support Services, as indicated in your DSS accommodation letter.
Attendance and participation
| Attendance at the weekly seminar is a must. Missing more than two classes will impair your final grade. Attendance at the occasional "Musical Urbanism lab sessions" is highly recommended. |
| Participation involves reading the assigned texts before the class to which they are assigned, submitting a brief question or response to Blackboard before class, posting each week to Blackboard (see below), and taking part in the discussions held in class. |
Blackboard posts
Before the morning of Wednesday's class, each of you will post a paragraph-length (250 words) response to some aspect of the day's readings. You need not attempt to summarize the texts. In fact, we encourage you to focus on something specific: an argument, opinion, passage, song, image, etc. Your response might take the form of a commentary or question, opinion or rant. We will use your posts to spark class conversation.
Presentation
You will be assigned a week to give a brief, 5-minute presentation in class. The presentations will critically engage an idea, question, debate or conversation from the prior week's class. If you use a concrete illustration in your presentation, please select a different example (of genre, city, historical period, culture, etc.) than ones covered in the prior week. Your example need not be musically based!
Papers
Final project
| In teams of 2-3 students, you will conduct archival and original research to document an example of musical urbanism. In the last two weeks of regular class, each team will make a 30-minute presentation of their topic. On a Finals Week date TBA, each team member will individually turn in a 10-page paper on the topic. |
| For instructions on this assignment, click here. |
Blackboard