MUSI 725 – Performing Antique and Modernities
ENSP 545 – Narrative & Time
MUSI 892 – Supervised Research
MUSI 782 – Composition Lessons
Respectively, these courses are:
- - A musicology seminar that “focuses on how people perform themselves as part of a modern world” and how “technology and intercultural dialogue play into the construction of modernities”.
- - A special topics course in the English department about fictional narrative and the construction and deconstruction of time. Involves reading many novels.
- - An independent study where I can research and write about whatever I want.
- - Just how it sounds – private composition lessons with one of the composition faculty.
I’ll also be TAing MUSI 339, Intro to Music and Computers, taught by the new visiting lecturer. I’ll TA the lecture portion, then I’ll be teaching the software in the lab portion. I’m a little nervous being the only TA, but I honestly think this’ll be a HELL of a lot better than the class I’m currently TAing.
I’m ridiculously excited about this English class. I e-mailed the professor to make sure he wouldn’t mind having a music grad student in his class, and his response was: “Would I mind having a music student along for the ride? Are you kidding? Couldn't be better. Music, in fact, lies at the heart of my thinking. From time to time I've thought of a course in Music and Narrative, though the way that particular body of ideas was practiced twenty years ago seemed to me to miss the point, and since then, it seems to have been out of favor. So yes. I'd love to have you in the class.” Lawl. Just reading his syllabus and exchanging e-mails with him makes me really excited to take his class. He sounds like just the creative type of person who is still excited about art and life that I really want to be around and learn from. Of course, there’s also the whole fact that this class plays perfectly into my current independent research. Overall, next semester is looking far more interesting! It looks like I’ll actually be kept busy, too, instead of having a slack class like I do this semester. I’m one of those dumb people that either needs to be completely free, or so busy I might die. I don’t do the in between well at all (ex. this semester). The good thing is, though, that I’ve found a way to turn my slack class into something much more interesting so that maybe I can finish out the semester on a strong note. I’ve managed to shoehorn the project that my husband and I are collaborating on into that class, essentially making the planning stages of it into my final project. Win. I’m really looking forward to next semester, now. But first…I’m looking forward to Thanksgiving break. /headdesk
