School of Music Curriculum Redesign
Giving students creative opportunities
Addressing essential skills
Professional/Entrepreneurial skills
Creative assignments
Cross-disciplinary opportunities
Video skills and audio engineering
Faculty release time
Use culture bearers
Most pressing needs to be distinct and modern
Open-ended video production
Help students be composer-performers
Capstone Project (e.g., digital portfolio, website design, etc.)
Job interviewing and auditioning
Public speaking/presenting/master classes
Technology & Information Literacy
Social media
Materials preparation
"Professional Aspects" couse similar to THDN
Where/how to obtain funding
Work with theater and dance
Incorporate into EVERY class (e.g., oral presentations, performances, etc.)
Marketing/promoting (self and music festivals, concerts, etc.)
Multiple options so assignments can be tailored to students' needs
Video and audio recording/production
click to edit
Utilize the Design Innovation Hub
Take advantage of colleagues in other Departments
Students apprenticeship with Faculty projetcs
Student cross-discipline organization
Interdisciplinary grants for existing classes and collaborations between disciplines
Providing opportunities for students to explore different facets of being a musician
Network/getting connecting in a new locale
Entrepreneurial mindset, DIY career building
Remote instruction training (esp. for music educators)
Connect with non-majors by enticing them to be in music coursework
Piano
Marching band
"Keeping arts as part of your life" for trained musicians in other majors
Special topics classes (more liberal arts education)
Rock band
Non-music major day at SoM (non-major concerts)
Headwinds
Credit hour limitations
Space limitations
Student availability
Time
BHRI partnership
Music cognition lab
SURE grants
Theater/dance collaborations
Visual arts collaborations
Sciences collaborations
Engineering collaborations
Interdisciplinary interaction is very personality driven; there's no coordinator, limited resources, dependent on individual faculty (we're all busy)
May 4 commemoration
Integration with Stark campus
Approaches to curricular flexibility
Eclectic experiences
Creating opportunities for students to see innovations that others are engaged in
Outreach
Connecting to Cleveland's extensive black population
Classes for non-majors (black students or any kind of diverse students)
Meet students where they are/where interests lie (pop music as hook to get them into jazz/classical)
Access for different students (bring chamber groups to Cleveland high schools and teach lessons)
Applied aural training
Sight-reading
Rhythms
Ear training
Applied ear training
Thoughtful aural work (students know how to press a button but don't know what it means)
Performance opportunities
Popular music small ensembles led by faculty (great American songbook, rock, fusion, blues, metal, EDM, prog rock, etc.)
Original music and covers
"In house" collaborations with SoM
Getting rid of credit restrictions on # of ensembles
0 credit ensembles
P/F rather than grades for ensembles
Encourage recitals other than their graduating recital. Have students create their own work for recitals more.
Confidence
Musicianship skills
Professionalism
Encourage students to create their own projects: they produce, they compose, etc.
Piano literacy
Improvisation
More ear training
Musical theater (on stage and pit)
Performance Experience
Networking
Artistic Social and Cultural Awareness
Accessing KSU & outside resources
Teach students to teach themselves
New course offerings
Guiding principles
Creating new opportunities for student involvement
Innovative classes (different genres/music)
"Student voice, student choice"
Developing individual musicianship
Musically literate graduates
Commitment to diversity, including course content and repertoire
What students take
What students learn within a course
1 credit special topics
Apprenticeships
Restructuring Theory sequence
Emphasis on chamber music
Classes meeting multiple requirement
Global outreach
Technology
Community needs
Reducing program-specific requirements
Value students' time
Innovation
Distance learning
Learning from the local environment