You're invited to observe Dr. Kristina Nielsen, a 2024 Golden Mustang Award Winner, for a session of her Introduction to Critical Music Studies course. This course introduces the skills of critical reasoning, research methods, and argumentative writing through the lens of music studies. As a global practice influenced by historical, cultural, social, religious, and political beliefs and systems, music is a prime vehicle for developing research questions that apply critical reasoning and related skills. Drawing on perspectives and practices from across various fields of music studies (historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, music psychology, music sociology, etc.), students learn to build sound arguments, distinguish strong from weak conclusions, become information literate, and write clearly and effectively. This course satisfies the CC Critical Reasoning (CR) Foundation requirement. Students who have already taken another course that fulfills the Critical Reasoning requirement cannot take this course. Prerequisites: C- or better in WRTR 1312, WRTR 2303, or WRTR 2305 or appropriate transfer credit.

There are 15-30 students in this undergraduate-level class. In this session, the topic covered is logical fallacies. They will be reviewing different logical fallacies and then the students are going to do an exercise where they will practice applying what they learned

If you choose to attend this session, the instructor will introduce you to the class and explain why you are there.

Please note that you will receive an Outlook calendar invite with the class location after registering.