2020 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Social and Human Sciences Graduate major in Social and Human Sciences
Special Lecture on Advanced Topics in Social and Human Sciences FB
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Social and Human Sciences
- Instructor(s)
- Naoyuki Hayashi / Hugh Barry Ziani De Ferranti
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- SHS.L420
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2020
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This short course covers a set of important issues concerning music, our experiences and responses to it as listeners and participants (including creative acts of making and performing music). The overall objective is to contemplate and articulate experiences of deep listening and modes of experiencing and responding to music, such that we both appreciate the complexity of this form of expressive culture and are better able to think analytically and critically about music in the societies, places and spaces we inhabit.
Course description and aims
1. ability to question, analyse and distinguish between the act of hearing sounds and that of listening to music
2. ability to express ideas about modes of musical experience
3. analytical and critical thinking about music in different kinds of societies and locations
Keywords
music, society, community, coexistence
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Each week an assigned reading will be discussed in detail, with 1 student leading discussion from a prepared set of points.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction and discussion of musical interests and experiences. What is "listening" (not merely hearing)? | Considering modes of hearing (as a physical capability) and listening to sound. |
| Class 2 | Emotion and music: an anthropological approach | Theories of how music triggers emotional response. |
| Class 3 | Intercultural experience through music | Theories of intercultural encounter and 'communication' through music. |
| Class 4 | Music and place(s) – transforming spaces and feeling the local through music | Considering modes of possible relations between music and place. |
| Class 5 | student presentations 1 | Demonstrating some of Wk 1- 4 ideas in relation to a case study, with musical examples. |
| Class 6 | student presentations 2 | Demonstrating some of Wk 1- 4 ideas in relation to a case study, with musical examples. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
none
Reference books, course materials, etc.
materials to be provided by the instructor
Evaluation methods and criteria
participation in class sessions 30%
oral presentation 30%
written paper 40%
Related courses
- SHS.L416 ： Trans-disciplinary Exercise in Social and Human Sciences F
Prerequisites
A genuine love of music! An ability to read and respond orally and in writing to non-‘technical’ writings (meaning ones that do not involve specialist analysis of music’s inner details) in English on the nature and phenomenology of musical experience.