Engaging with Music credential
Mission and rationale
How do we build mutually beneficial relationships through music?
The Community Engagement Initiative includes mandatory exposure to community engagement through the 101 course and an optional credential Engaging with Music for students who are interested:
- in further developing community engagement skills, and
- creating and implementing engagement projects that build mutually beneficial relationships through music.
Both the mandatory exposure to community engagement and the optional credential are in alignment with the Herberger Institute's Design and the Arts Corps initiative. This initiative allows the School of Music, Dance and Theatre to be a supportive unit in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, as we will be the first school to create a discipline-specific community engagement proposal that works with Design and the Arts Corps.
Level 1 (mandatory)
- Built into the MUE/MUP 101 Curriculum.
- Completed by all incoming first-year students.
- No credential awarded.
Purpose: To set in motion a cultural mindset of how music can build mutually beneficial relationships between our students and the community.
101 Unit/Module
Learn about community engagement (building mutually beneficial relationships through music)
- Community engagement: Any music experience that includes members from the School of Music, Dance and Theatre that builds mutually beneficial relationships with community partners. Including but not limited to:
- Courses that teach relationship building skills through music.
- Private lessons/studio classes experiences that result in a music project with the community.
- Events or performances that include interactive experiences with the audience
Mutually beneficial: Experiences that are co-designed, cooperative, collaborative, participatory and/or interactive.
- Learn about the comprehensive list of all existing School of Music, Dance and Theatre courses, programs and initiatives that aid in developing relationship building skills through music.
- Learn about Engaging with Music credential option.
- Assignments
- Three observation hours of current Engaging with Music initiatives in the community and reflection paper.
- Complete the four Design and Arts Corps certification modules.
- Ethics
- Democracy
- Equity
- Communication
Level 2 (optional)
- Engaging with Music credential.
- Create or participate in community engagements that build mutually beneficial relationships through music.
- Participate in further training that develops community engagement skills.
Purpose: To drive intrinsic motivation, increase quality of relationships , and allow leaders to develop and create their own project. This also allows those without time the option of not doing it.
- Take classes from Engaging with Music course list.
- Complete four additional Design and Arts Corps modules.
- Value mapping (values clarification).
- Being a guest in someone's house.
- Partnership and collaboration.
- Pluralism.
- Proposal draft.
- Project development and implementation (individual or collaborative project with peers).
- Publish completed project descriptions and reflection on the Engaging with Music blog.
- Possible presentation at Engaging with Music Project Showcase
Level 3 (continuing the work, post-credential)
- Continue building from level 2.
- Complete the Design and Arts Corps certificate.
- Collaborate and mentor incoming students in MUE/MUP 101 course.