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• Fall/Winter 2021 timetable is live, undergrad registration starts July 6

  Wednesday, May 26, 2021 | By gminaker

  

  Originally published in The Brock News |  TUESDAY, MAY 25, 2021 

  Brock University last week reiterated its hope that students will be welcomed back onto campus starting this fall and today, Tuesday, May 25, the Fall/Winter 2021 timetable went live.

  In it, students will see a course calendar that reflects a significant return to on-campus instruction with a majority of classes being offered in person, while still having many classes offered in a hybrid online format.

  This is the fall scenario Brock is working towards, but the University will be ready to quickly pivot, should the public health situation require it.

  Course registration opens on the student portal at my.brocku.ca on Tuesday, July 6 for first-year undergraduates. Those with 15 or more credits may register starting July 9; 10 or more credits on July 12; five or more credits on July 14; fewer than five credits on July 15. There are a number of other key registration dates that can be found at brocku.ca/guides-and-timetables/dates

  The University realizes students will have questions as they prepare for registration to open on Tuesday, July 6. More information and the answers to many of these questions can be found at brocku.ca/fall and brocku.ca/coronavirus

  These websites are regularly updated with the latest information about the 2021-22 academic plans and the University’s pandemic response.

  Brock is preparing for the upcoming academic year with cautious optimism and with the knowledge all adults in Ontario who wish to be vaccinated against COVID-19 are now eligible to receive their first shot.

  Today’s release of the Fall/Winter 2021 timetable is the next step in that preparation.

  Tags: 2021-22 Academic Year, brock international, course registration, Fall 2021, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, MIWSFPA, Welcome Week 2020
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• Redesigned course explores global music and identities

  Sunday, August 02, 2020 | By dvivian

  

  (Published FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2020 | in The Brock News by Alison Innes)

  This fall, Brock University students will have the opportunity to explore how music shapes, and is shaped by, global cultures.

  Music in Global Cultures (MUSI 1P50) will explore how music expresses and shapes identity around themes of race, gender, spirituality, disability and sexuality.

  “Every unit will have case studies from all over the world,” says Nina Penner, Assistant Professor of Music. “We’ll be doing a lot of non-western music.”

  For those who may associate music appreciation classes with symphonies and string quartets by predominantly white men from previous centuries, this course will offer a fresh angle with a diverse repertoire.

  “We’ll be talking about music and its relation to the society and culture in which it is a part,” says Penner.

  Students will be exploring music from countries such as Gambia, India, Nepal, Japan and Cuba in genres including hip hop, jazz, sufi, disco and blues.

  Students will explore issues of race through the music of the Black Lives Matter movement and American blues and examine disability through the music of the Goze, a group of female Japanese musicians with visual disabilities, and the Deaf West Theatre in Los Angeles. They will investigate how Buddhist chant, the Whirling Dervishes of the Mevlevi Sufi order and traditional Jewish music express spirituality, and explore gender expression in opera and Balinese gamelan music.

  Penner hopes students from all disciplines across Brock will consider taking the course.

  “I really enjoy teaching music for non-majors,” she says. “I find it really exciting to take people who like music but think they aren’t skilled in music and show them how much they can learn and develop skills to listen to and describe things about music.”

  In North America, Penner says, students traditionally don’t get a lot of instruction in thinking about and discussing music critically.

  “It’s exciting to see students develop this vocabulary and to talk about music in a precise and informed way.”

  Course enrollment is open to any students who are interested. There are no theory requirements or prerequisites. The course is offered entirely online and the enrolment cap has been lifted to reflect the online learning environment.

  Tags: brock international, Department of Music, humanities, MIWSFPA, Nina Penner
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