Writing Through Music

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Analyze written texts to understand how they relate to particular audiences, purposes, and contexts as a way to inform one’s own writing and/or revision.

• Create and revise written texts for particular audiences, purposes, and contexts.

• Through oral or written reflection, demonstrate awareness of one’s writing choices as well as how one’s own writing contributes to ongoing conversations.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Attendance	10%
Full-group workshop participation	15%
In-class writing assignments	15%
Ethnomusicological paper	25%
Concert review	10%
Musicological paper	25%

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
93–100	A
90–92	A-
87–89	B+
83–86	B
80–82	B-
77–79	C+
73–76	C
70–72	C-
66–69	D+
63–65	D
60–62	D-
59 or below	F

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance and participation is a core expectation of this course. Therefore, students who earn an attendance grade of 0% cannot earn a passing grade.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

There are no required texts for purchase. Students are expected to have physical writing materials and a notebook in class, as well as access to a computer with a browser and word processor.

As per UNC policy (400.1.6[R]), this course “engages diverse scholarly perspectives to develop critical

thinking, analysis, and debate and inclusion of a reading does not imply endorsement.”