Thursday, September 25, 2008
What's So Critical About Music?
A very wise writing professor once told me, "Its easy. Just write the stuff you'd want to read." Right, easy. Similarly, as a teacher, I find myself often trying to shape courses that I'd want to take. A lot more difficult than one would imagine. And yet Byron Hawk makes it look easy. This course seems to offer critical and literary analysis in a way my students here at MC have indicated as not just cool or fun, but as necessary and relevant - to the increasing ways in which rhetoric bleeds into our daily lives. As it does in music. Props to Hawk.
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So true. Byron's class looks great. I'd love to take this. Hope NYC is treating you all well.
I go through similar issues. Right now I've become very concerned with independence... making a class to give my students independence to seek and evaluate knowledge as knowledge... as you put it... easier said than done!
I agree, that course looks interesting, wish we could peep more of it, execution is everything.
Very true saying given by that professor. Thank you for this post, I so absolutely have the same opinion! And it's very stimulating for me. I'm just functioning on my opinion with this issue.
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