Description: Seminar, one hour. Study challenges way we often think about music, from perceptions of music as something that exists within boundaries of our reality to something that pushes and redefines those boundaries. Exploration of ways in which music augments human reality through neuroscientific, psychological, and aesthetic lenses. Study is interdisciplinary and includes intersections of music with neuroanatomical vision and audition, neurological disease, psychology, animation, film, and nature. Analysis of media ranging from modern indie songs, to classic Disney animations, to renowned film scores. In addition to artistic media, discussion of scientific writings about music and brain to examine how junction of art and science creates unique learning space with clinical implications. Students gain holistic appreciation for how music they have always listened to has in fact subconsciously shaped their lives. P/NP grading. Facilitated by Laine Gruver, with Elizabeth R. Upton as faculty mentor.

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