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