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How Music Can Change Your Life
Course
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English
21 h
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- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 7 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
- Week 1 - How can music influence the body to support fitness and rehabilitation?
Music has been used throughout history and across cultures to influence the body, but only in recent decades have researchers been able to examine how it is processed through the brain. These recent discoveries explain the relationship between features of mus... - Week 2 - How can music motivate the mind to promote academic achievement?
How much music is included in schools varies significantly, between countries and even around the corner. Learning music can happen in classrooms and through individual lessons. It can also be used to promote wellbeing and foster inclusion of diverse student... - Week 3 - How can music reflect the psyche to improve mental health?
Music can be a powerful way to explore and comprehend our deepest emotions. When used in psychoanalysis, this can lead to rich experiences that may even reveal aspects of our unconscious world that can be processed within the safety of the therapeutic relation... - Week 4 - How can music foster intimacy to strengthen relationships?
Have you ever used music to try and improve a relationship in your life? Playing the right background music is one thing, but what about singing with another person, or improvising on musical instruments in responsive and caring ways. Listening is the key to... - Week 5 - How can music enhance connectedness to support communities?
Is the power of music strongest when used by groups and communities? Music has often been used by groups of people to express their shared beliefs, but it can be just as powerful when we connect musically with people whose beliefs and backgrounds are differe... - Week 6 - How can music express culture and honour our diverse societies?
Each of us belongs to a range of culture and subcultures, including our ethnic heritage, our gender and sexuality, our abilities and ages. Many of us live in diverse neighbourhoods and cities where it is not enough to be culturally tolerant - we need to be cul... - Week 7 - Course wrap-up
We finish up the course this week with some closing remarks and a final assignment for you to undertake. We've also included some bonus podcasts and an interview for those who are interested.
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Katrina Skewes McFerran
Professor
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
Editor
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