Spring 2027

Special Topics in Contemporary Music Education

Explores contemporary approaches to music learning, making, and teaching through special topics in curriculum design, performance, and scholarship.

offering recorded2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Jesse Rathgeber

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2016: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Fall 2016: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2017: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate the capacity to facilitate learning experiences focused on themes from within the special topic.

  • Analyze, critique, and discuss contemporary music learning and teaching scholarship.

  • Identify and describe different approaches to music making, considering their implication in one's own practice.

  • Design new experiences and practices for one's own teaching and discuss how to implement them.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Prerequisites

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Graduate/professional standing

  • Graduate/professional standing
CURRIC/MUSIC 942

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  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

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Calendar & sections

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2016: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Fall 2016: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2017: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

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Topics

  • Contemporary music learning and teaching
  • Curriculum design and pedagogy
  • Approaches to music making

Skills

  • Analyzing and critiquing contemporary music learning and teaching scholarship
  • Designing new teaching experiences and practices
  • Facilitating learning experiences focused on special topics

Grades

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Sources & history

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Catalog & offerings

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Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
CURRIC/MUSIC 942 · Spring 2027

Special Topics in Contemporary Music Education

Recorded 2026-10-14
CURRIC/MUSIC 942 · Spring 2027

The Art of Disability

Recorded 2026-10-14
CURRIC/MUSIC 942 · Spring 2027

Special Topics in Contemporary Music Education

Recorded 2026-10-14
CURRIC/MUSIC 942 · Spring 2027

The Art of Disability

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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